Let us all pause for 2d8 seconds

[William T Goodall]

On 5 Mar 2008, at 22:04, Charlie Bell wrote:

>
> On 06/03/2008, at 7:34 AM, Lance A. Brown wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Martin Lewis wrote:
>>> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Horn, John <JHORN at healthlink.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Gary Gygax has died...
>>>
>>> Really?
>>
>> Realy.
>
> Martin was using what is known on his side of The Pond as 'sarcasm'...
> The previous 20 posts contained 4 with the subject line "Gary  
> Gygax"...

I think this illustrates the pitfalls of using sarcasm on a mailing  
list without a smiley :-)

Words are not enough Maru.

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