Humorless Receptacle

I am a member of a certain unnamed professional networking site where people get linked to each other, to exchange information, network, job hunt, and give and receive all sorts of professional advice. I belong to a few groups in this system, one of which is for alumni of a certain prestigious university that sits south of the Mason-Dixon line, and has never been attended by Prince Andrew. Last week, a post was made to this alumni group, linking to a humorous list of snappy answers to stupid job interview questions. They're pretty funny, and we've all probably heard (or heard about) some of them. Go check it out.

Anyway, the first comment posted was from a pharaceutical professional, Ph.D., with 500+ followers on the network, who felt that "anyone with a degree from (prestigious university) would not appreciate such sophomoric humor". Apparently I missed that day when working on my Ph.D. at said prestigious institution, because I enjoyed the hell out of the list. Unfortunately, this humorless individual shit in the pool with the first comment out, thus setting the tone and making it difficult for anyone else to comment positively. Additionally, as this is a professional networking site, saying that you enjoy such subversive humor could get you in trouble down the line, particularly since you are identified when commenting, and don't have the weasel shield of anonymity to hide behind (as I'm doing here). I told this story to someone else, and he provided me the title of the post (except he didn't say receptacle, he used a word that rhymes with an alternative way to hit a baseball), a phrase that would fit in perfectly in this series of outtakes from Better Off Ted, which contain very strong language.

Anyway, what I'm trying to say, is it's easy for one person to ruin other people's fun, especially when we all know that the list has a strong element of truth behind it. People who have a sense of humor never seem to have much trouble with the stick-up-the-butt persuasion, but the humorless just can't handle anything outside their microscopically narrow view of what is acceptable. Whipping out the humongous tarbrush to claim that a degree would prevent us from laughing is the action of an uptight, miserable human being who needs to get over themselves. Perhaps we could learn from the way that people agree with the list, and those responsible for asking these dumbass survey questions could re-evaluate their priorities. But no, they couldn't do that, it's easier to call people sophomoric and denigrate them than to acknowledge that they have a point.