I think the point is that we're not talking about gratifying your intellectual curiosity or my intellectual curiosity, but one's intellectual curiosity. I liter

I think the point is that we're not talking about gratifying your intellectual curiosity or my intellectual curiosity, but one's intellectual curiosity. I literally groan out loud every time I see a Coding Horror story on the front page, but even I will admit it has a chance of satiating someone's needs vis a vis their own curiosity. Note that joke and pranks, being fictitious by their very nature, are incapable of even a Coding Horror level of edification. Thus, it is my opinion they should be relegated to the bin of "off-topic" subjects.