<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">On Mar 14, 2018, at 10:51 AM, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 10:59 AM, Will Steinberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steinberg.will@gmail.com" target="_blank">steinberg.will@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><span class=""><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 14, 2018 11:21, "Dan TheBookMan" <<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com" target="_blank">danust2012@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="m_2036543570578669838quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div class="m_2036543570578669838quoted-text">On Mar 14, 2018, at 8:02 AM, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 9:42 AM, Dan TheBookMan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com" target="_blank">danust2012@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><span>On Mar 14, 2018, at 7:15 AM, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 9:06 AM, Will Steinberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steinberg.will@gmail.com" target="_blank">steinberg.will@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">A damn shame.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">It's shameful to die? bill w</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><a href="https://www.phrasemix.com/phrases/its-a-shame-something-happened" target="_blank">https://www.phrasemix.com/phra<wbr>ses/its-a-shame-something-happ<wbr>ened</a><br><br><div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">Now I need to explain 'tongue in cheek'? bill w</div> </div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>That works better if you put something like a smiley after it.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">dan</div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Is there anything worse than explaining your jokes? I agree with Will</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><span class=""><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="m_2036543570578669838quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></span><div dir="auto">Honestly I prefer no textual signifiers for online facetiousness. What is lost in clarity is gained in mutual respect for participants' ability to parse humor.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I suppose, though, that emoticons and emoji are merely punctuation, and if I follow that slippery slope I might condemn exclamation points and question marks as well. But humor is a special case to me--the derivative of humor with respect to explanatory text is a large and negative value. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Still not sure why Bill is talking about his tongue though. </div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br><div>It’s sometimes hard to tell when someone is actually making a joke.... It’s a cliche too about jokes not needing explanation. I don’t adhere to that view. Sometimes it works.... But in this case it wasn’t about the joke needing to be explained. It was about whether you meant your statement literally (in the older usage) or not. (It’s not a big deal either. Don’t take this to mean I’m getting upset.;)</div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my latest Kindle book "Sand Trap":</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><font color="#000000" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://mybook.to/SandTrap" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://mybook.to/SandTrap</a></font></div></div></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"></div></div></div></div></body></html>