Brian Peasland wrote:
>> Let me propose 'the punchline conjecture':
>>
>> No matter how simple a joke is, there will always be someone who doesn't
>> get it, provided the audience is big enough.
>
> If it was a joke, then it should have included an emoticon of some
> sort...i.e. or
>
> Since there are no voice inflections or facial indicators to form a
> basis of the tone, emoticons are all we have in this forum.

If you look closely at my post you'll discover the four letters
"SCNR"... I didn't want to make it too easy to spot. Also the use of
common sense is explicitly *not* prohibited in this forum - or was it
"is not explicitly prohibited"?



robert