Steve,

Good suggestion to the members - it is best when we can try to add value as well as have fun. At the same time, we should keep in mind what has made this forum a success - good info mixed with good fun. I have frequented a number of forums, including many who have the "mostly serious" rule in place. They are very different forums - most quite quality - who lack the sense of friendship and community you see here.

Anyway, a request to tone down the jokes is fine. I admit to having indulged the Mad Scientist a bit too much from time to time - including an obsession with adding pics to my posts. But I would recommend we not ask the mods to step in and suppress them. Doing so would remove much of what brings in and keeps people here in the first place.

Just my two cents.

- Nomad