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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jonrog1" data-source="post: 809928" data-attributes="member: 189">I think he was making the point that wider general circles other than just sci-fi would get the joke.  He may have mispoke when he said "general sci-fi circles" but as that's a subset of "general circles", I don't think his statement's off.  We got a physicist, some biotech guys, and a frikkin' improv guy.  Improv.  The bastard child of sketch comedy. [" A spatula, a gynecologist, and a bathroom." (speaking of inside jokes...)]  That kind  of supports his opinion.  My proposition was that you don't have to know anything about science to get the joke.  The source of it is science geekdom.  Extra laugh for those who get it.  Solid laugh for those who don't know the source, but figure out the nature of the word in context, and hence the joke.Been writing comedy 12 damn years.   Nothing a decade of telling jokes in bars'll teach you better than to write a jargon joke.  The joke actually FAILS if it's only a joke sci-fi guys would get.Nobody was saying you lost your membership to anything, and nobody made an exclusionary comment.  You went from zero to snarky in 6 flat there, mate.  And, may I remind you, you were the one implying that as you hadn't heard the term, it was excessively "jargon"-ish and so an invalid joke.  You made assumptions about the general based on the specific.And stop *shrug*-ging.  It's passive aggressive.</blockquote>