Thanks for your first comedy submission to rec.humor.funny's autoreply daemon. Here's your automatic reply. In due time, I will get to the message personally. If I accept it, I will send you a reply indicating that I have done this. I will also reply if it is rejected for an unusual reason. I try to do this quickly, but sometimes I get busy and it may take weeks (or months :-() to empty my queue.If you have not read them, I strongly advise you to read the guidelines for submissions to this group. They are posted the 2nd of every month to rec.humor.funny. Please check them out. If you can't wait for them to come around again, send a message to funny@clarinet.com with a subject line like:
Subject: command: rules
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There are a variety of common reasons why I might reject your submission. The most common one, of course, is that it just doesn't excite me much. That's life -- I reject 90% of submissions, so please keep trying. The guidelines noted above will tell you the other common reasons -- copyright, contrived puns, repeated material, very well known stuff, USENET postings not submitted by the original author, stuff where you had to be there, unexciting followups, etc.
By the way, this address (funny@clarinet.com) is ONLY for comedy submissions. No comments, complaints, requests etc. They go to funny-request@clarinet.com. (Daemon file request commands do go to funny@clarinet.com) Most comments and complaints should go to the poster of the joke, not me.
If your joke needs immediate attention because it's based on current events and won't be funny a week down the road, mail it to topical@clarinet.com. This is for jokes about the news, not jokes you heard on the news.
If a joke is original, you can use original@clarinet.com to tag it as such. This is one way to be sure it's considered for the rec.humor.funny original comedy awards. If you indicated it was original in another fashion, that's OK.
-Brad Templeton & Maddi Hausmann