No elizabyte - the point xantor obviously was making is that making those ALan Alda type jokes in this kind of situation might be highly insulting to the person posting.

Whether or not you are amused (or SamTherapy, Minty, mathman or anyone else) is a matter of thinking before you put your foot in you mouth and make someone else wish they'd never opened theirs at all and posted here.
Forum jokes for the initiated can be highly disconcerting if used in the wrong situation.

Believe me, I would never take the risk of being insulted this way in this forum and asking an innocuous question like vilters did.

I'm quite sure the idea was not to be ridiculed but to find out if people actually could guess. Is that very difficult for you to understand?

:] Fish

Message edited on: 09/10/2004 07:18