Does humor belong in tech writing?

Subject: Does humor belong in tech writing?
From: "Alex Silbajoris" <alsilba -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 13:14:30 +0000



This week I've been working on a "pocket guide" version of a user manual, which is in a 4.25 x 5.5 inch format intended to fit in a pocket. To make these guides, I need to follow some elaborate maethods of printing in Word (for example, four pages per sheet, in the sequence 12,1,10,3,2,11,4,9,8,5,6,7 for a 12-page version). Then the booklets need to be built and stapled.

I've been calling them cootie catchers, and yesterday someone actually built one for me. So I was showing it around, saying it was a new template for a pocket guide.

"My-mother-told-me-to-release-this-order..."

Sure enough, there really is a cootie catcher template out there:

http://www.joanholub.com/cootiedirections.html


OK, back to work.

- A



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