<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">The thing is, are you supposed to tell people it's a send-up? Isn't figuring that part of it? And being a little taken aback when you figure it out? A smiley fact destroys that part of it. I am a sensitive person and would not have posted a 'Gotcha!' to people who did not get it. Not my kind of humor. (I am accustomed to sending my iffy stuff to Spike for vetting, but he always says post it, so I didn't this time) bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 10:35 AM Dave Sill <<a href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com">sparge@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></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="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 5:36 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">To Dave and Dan and whoever: it was a sendup, a parody, a satire - overstating indeed! Sorry if you are miffed.</font></div></div></blockquote><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">We're cool. I was just a bit surprised.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">-Dave</font></div></div></div>
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