A simple example of geek humor from Gmail Labs
There are two examples of humor here. Neither are of them are the annoying "let's pause while I tell a joke" variety, and if you aren't in the mood for humor they won't get in your way:
1) "Email for the truly lazy" -- not laugh out loud funny, but cheekier than the more corporate "email for the busy".
2) The options in the screenshot. The labels aren't in themselves funny, but all geeks have encountered somebody on a discussion forum who appears to have a "Godwin troll" canned response set up.
When you introduce somebody to their first data capture tool, you can bet that, given the chance, they will make up humorous data to put into it. First name: Amanda; Second name: Huggenkiz. Deep down, we never tire of this childishness. When I studied IT at school, this tendency was beaten out of me. Now I try to beat it back into my authors...
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