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Humor Is Relative's FAQWho What When Where and Why; The 5 W's of inquisitive people. This is Humor Is Relative's F[requently]A[asked]Q[uestions], a handy dandy reference source for our readers and visitors! Ok, we admit that Encyclopedia Britannicatm is not knocking upon the front door begging and pleading to carry this in their next edition ... but then we figure they don't fully realize how informative this page really is! Uhm, yes, 96.9% of the questions are made up ones. No one really asks me that many questions *sigh*. Q: How do I use this FAQ?A: Click on one of the questions. The answer will "load in" and offer a link for you to return to the list of questions shared. Q: What is HumorIsRelative.com?A: Well, a site where people can come for a chuckle over a story shared ... Q: No, I meant what is it? A: Oh! HumorIsRelative.com is a site where people can come to read humorous adventures that also share about family somehow. Uncles, Aunts, Grandma or Grandpa, or even a sibling; so no one is safe you might say. Q: How can I share a link to Humor Is Relative?I don't currently offer banners for linking. Perhaps one day ... I do share, on another page, a small variety of text linking methods as ideas of how one can share a link back my way. Q: So anything family related can be found here?A: As long as it is humorous and meets the submission guidelines - most likely. Wouldn't be fair to share a sad story or offer parenting advice on a site with the word 'humor' in the name of it. Since the site's birth [birth date: May 17, 2001] the archives have grown in variety of stories offered. Q: Where do you find the stories to share on Humor Is Relative?A: My own family is one source. I also enjoy readers or fellow writers who take the time to share some of their own family stories with others on this site. This gives my children and other family members a break from the spotlight or requesting a raise in their allowance as a form of contract negotiations. Q: Do you accept any ol' story?A: Yes and No. Published authors or Humor Columnists are heartily welcomed to share book excerpts or a story or two with readers. However new writers' contributions are equally welcomed also. This, I feel, allows a bit of variety in the archives of Humor Is Relative. The non-fiction humorous essays or stories need to relate to events or moments within the family sphere of life. So although stories from parents, about their children, or spouses, sharing a chuckle about their better-half, may be shared from time to time - this site isn't limited to just sharing parenting or marriage humor either. The submission guidelines share how one can contribute a story for consideration to this site. But no, not 'any ol' story' is accepted. A risk of rejection exists on this site just as it exists for other sites that accepts contributions. Q: So you will share stories about your family?A: A: Sure, why not? Our mothers embarrassed my husband and myself, when we were younger, by sharing stories we'd rather they hadn't; so I thought why not continue the family tradition for yet another generation to enjoy. Q: *ahem* Uhm, hate to tell you this, but embarrassing your kids is not a family tradition. A: That may be true in your family. However I strive to be fair about it; and share advance warnings about which stories will be appearing. This way they can consider changing their names or dying their hair to prevent being recognized. Other stories I keep reserved for emergencies, like when one of them acts up then I can say "You remember that cat story? I can share that, you know . . .." It is amazing how effectively this works. And, unlike the Santa Claus tattle-telling threat, this 'stories reserve' works year-round! Q: You blackmail your family? A: I rarely write them letters. Only around Christmas and then it is one of those cute newsletters type where a list of URLs is shared. We move the day after those are mailed out. Q: I don't see one of those cute mailing links of webmaster@humorisrelative.com or whatever. How can someone contact you if not submitting a story to Humor Is Relative?A: One can contact me by sending an email to humor-feedback@humorisrelative.com Sadly the former general contact address became a victim of abuse along with the sign-up one for the now-deceased newsletter. Contact information is also shared on the Site Map. Q: How often will you update Humor Is Relative?A: That will be dependent on amount of submissions and the activities worthy of writing about within my family on the update frequency. Striving for, at the very least, once a year. In the future I have a dream of bi-weekly updates in content or - hope of hopes - weekly! I want Humor Is Relative's readers to enjoy the content while highlighting the more recent additions. However those dreams are dependent on the prior mentioned factors. Try as I might - my husband and children are not always willing to do something humorous for me. I am working on it though! Q: How does your husband's health affect story submissions or updating of Humor Is Relative?A: Frank's health currently takes most of my time. He has suffered complications of diabetes that, in a few short months, resulted in multiple hospital stays plus physical disabilities. This has also resulted in us moving to a temporary location but, unfortunately, one that has most phone numbers regarded as Toll or Long Distance. Although we are all trying to cope and adjust to the changes this has, as a result, also temporarily demanded most to all of my time. Humor Is Relative has gone to being updated if-when I can status and with story submissions still welcomed but authors not recieving acceptance, or rejection, emails from my side for an extended amount of time. As of January 2005, my speculated guess - given everything experienced on our side and his current health status - is that the time constraints may last for, at least, another 2 to 3 months. Updated as of January 2006: husband's health is improving to the point where the contraints on my time have lessened and allowed elbow room for working on the site more regularly. Starting in February 2006 the goal is to start have the site being updated bi-weekly. After I finish going through the current stack of submissions, response from my side, regarding newer submissions, will be quicker as well. Q: What is this 'Tip The Bandwidth' I sometimes see at the end of articles?A: That is one way for the readers, like you, to thank Humor Is Relative for the content offered and helping it to continue. Mostly I offer links to items available through Amazon.com but from time to time will share other interesting thingies with people. Every penny does help toward the costs of site hosting and other behind the scene things but, unfortunately, not enough generated to cover more than the costs of hosting and the domain name - so this isn't something I do for a living. Q: What do you use to design your site?A: A few curse words mixed in with a few gallons of coffee and plenty of ibuprofen. Q: I was being serious! A: And so was I. Q: Let me reword it; how did you go about designing this site?
I check its progress and appearance in Internet Explorer [v5], Opera [v7], and FireFox [v1] plus Lynx. I prefer a screen resolution of 800 x 600; but will occasionally remember to check the pages at a higher setting. All pages and the stylesheet are then validated through W3C.org online checkers offered. [Deprecated] Q: Should I subscribe to the Free Newsletter?A: No. Although these were brief, and ad-free, Humor Is Relative ceased offering a Free Newsletter back in 2002. [Deprecated] Q: What are Special Reports?A: Besides being special? Q: Yes. A: Special Reports are only available through WebSeed Publishing sites and presented by the writers of WebSeed. A variety of topics will be covered and already there is a sizeable collection available. These are inexpensively priced so you may wish to look over the variety of titles available. A few are listed at the bottom of articles and on the left hand side with a link for people to look over the whole selection! Humor Is Relative's Top 12 Popular Stories: |
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When one of my children ask, "Did you have to tell that story?" I tell the child, "Yep! It was my chance to be the center of attention ... thanks to you."
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Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
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