Asbos,
As to your specific post I have no idea why it was deleted, I have to delete a great many now unfortunately, yours would have been one of many.
I may have viewed it as pointless and not in keeping with the topic, I really don't know.
Ultimately, this is supposed to be a professional forum, humorous replies are all very well, and some humorous ones are well thought out and manage to stick to the specific topic.
Others might be no more than a smiley - deleted straight away if spotted - and still others just pointless or in danger of causing the thread to veer totally off topic, or in danger of turning it into 'chat'.
Or there may be many 'funnies' spread through the topic, when that happens I scan the thread and delete everything I see.
If you want a 'laff' go to the section of the forum that was set up for people to socialise in, if you are going to post funny replies in this section, do so by all means but you can also expect to have them removed.
you are not the only one to have them removed by any means!
Ian