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erronis

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11. We don't always get it ---

Reply to Jackpine Radical (Reply #4)

Thu Feb 20, 2014, 02:07 PM

Feb 2014

Librals tend to have thin skins and while they/me appreciate parody, especially when they recognize it, they are quick to take offense at the more obtuse type. Sorry you had to 'splain yourself on this.

I've been told that no one knows when I'm telling a joke or not. Dead-pan delivery. Lots of big scientific words.

I respond that everything I say is meant to be taken as a joke. Just like I take everyone else's pronouncements.

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