> Gabe Menezes wrote: > You have said that Portugal is a third rate Country, a third rate European Country and so on in three different posts. To suddenly change and say it was a tongue in check, smacks of a schizophrenic attitude! > Mario responds: > Looks like you have been smacked once too often, Gabe. Either that or you have no idea what a big word like schizophrenic means. I said calling Portugal a third rate European country was tongue-in-cheek. Then I said that I really should have said second-rate European country:-)) If I were schizophrenic I would have said it was a first rate European country. See the difference? >