The Humour of Usenet

Many of the people who read this don't even know what Usenet is, so bear with me on the setup. This post is an experiment to see if we can transfer the "feel" of the humour to a blog.

So I'm reading a Usenet newsgroup that discusses Macs, and some guy posts that he's heard (from one of the most unreliable of the rumour sites) that Apple is working on a word processor, and did any of us have any further info (nevermind that if we did, we'd be legally bound by Apple not to discuss it; let's just put this guy down as a hopeless optimist).

Since people who actually believe rumours sites (particularly unreliable ones who first posted this specific rumor six months ago and it still isn't true) are generally rubes, some other person posts a fanciful reply along the lines of "yes, it's all true. In fact, Apple has been working on it at MIT, and it's revolutionary -- it will include a baseball cap filled with sensors that plug into the USB port and write down what you're thinking."

Someone then chimes in with "Actually, the biggest problem is that statistically men think of sex every few minutes... Apple is still working on a filter for that, but in the meantime the program will be strictly for female use only."

To which some wag replies: "Pfft, I guess they already perfected the shoes filter then."

So ... does anybody find this exchange as funny as I do?