After Hours

..... intended humor is often lost around here.

but yourself, and even then no amount of your testimony will make the intent come to fruition.
If you find your intent to be too often unrealized, you just have to try and communicate it better.
If it's any consolation, I attempted to make my response in good humor, so apparently miscommunication happens to me too.

Besides this :-)

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I assume you weren't surprised when you discovered your intended humor sometimes gets lost around here. It's your message; if you don't want to facility the understanding by your audience, don't use them.