I'm a Unix geek with a warped sense of humor. I live in New Jersey and -- like so many Jerseyans -- work for a major pharmaceutical company. I spend entirely too much time on my e-mail humor list. I have no idea how it started, but I send out anywhere between zero and a half dozen jokes every day to a select group of discerning e-mail users.

Select because they know me, or rather are known by me, and discerning enough not to have asked me to stop sending them jokes.

I get jokes from friends, and I subscribe to several humor mailing lists.

No. Only the ones that appeal to me. I "clean them up". I remove any

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I correct grammar and spelling (to the best of my limited ability), change innumerous instances of "your" to "you're", "its" to "it's", "there" to "their" "hear" to "here", and vice-versa. I sometimes eliminate unnecessary details when they detract from a joke's focus.

I also "mask" dirty words (e.g., f*ck). Not because I think my list members will be offended, but because many people receive these jokes at work. Some businesses, in an attempt to maintain minimum employee morale, scan incoming messages for dirty words and sh*t-can messages that don't comply with corporate standards.

Censored for words, in a way, but not censored for content. While it's not primarily a "dirty joke" list, some of the stuff is fairly raunchy. If dirty jokes offend you, please don't ask to subscribe. On the other hand, if you're looking for really dirty stuff, there are probably better humor lists on the Internet.

Just one. You can receive all my jokes, "zero to six" a day (usually two), or you can ask for the "Joke of the Day", which is just one a day, the one I consider to be that day's "best" clean joke. Note that this is not a "digest", where you get all the jokes in one message. The "zero to six" option is any number of jokes, each in a separate e-mail message, and the "joke of the day" option is one joke. Each day's JOTD joke goes out to the full list, so there's no need to get both.

It's for people who subscribe at work and tend to get distracted by a lot of messages in their inbox, and for people who read their e-mail only a couple of times a week.

Almost. The only restriction is that you have to certify that you're over 18 to subscribe to the "zero to six" list.

I thought you'd never ask! Just send me mail: cmacina at nac dot net (Sorry there's no link -- this is to reduce spam) asking to subscribe. Simple as that. No cryptic things to put in the Subject or Body, just ask, and tell me whether you want "zero to six" jokes a day or "zero or one". Important: state that you are over 18 if you want the "zero to six" list. The procedure for unsubscribing is the same, except you don't have to tell me anything about your age.

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