[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

While it may be extreme that 60% of the comments currently displayed relate to crazy captions, I feel rather a fraud because I am getting repped for entertainment value rather than erudition - especially in the light of some of the comments above.

Well it seems clear to me from the comments above (as well as from my own User CP) that people value being given the opportunity to laugh as much as they value being given the opportunity to think. Which is as it should be. It would be a very dry and crusty old board indeed were it not for the sparkling wit that permeates the forum.

And Tolkien himself was most certainly not averse to a sprinkling of humour amongst his many weighty words ...

I could ramble on here at length about the importance of humour but I won't because these people put it much better than I could:

Humour is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. ~Aristotle~

Total absence of humour renders life impossible. ~Colette~

A sense of humour is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. ~Dwight D Eisenhower~

Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. ~Edward de Bono~

Humour is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place. ~Mark Twain~

So I think you have good reason to hold your head high, Mithalwen, and regard your rep points as rightfully earned.