From: Jed Rothwell
Yes. You do realize, that was a joke? See Poe's law:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
". . . An Internet adage reflecting the idea that without a
clear indication of the author's intent, it is difficult or impossible to
tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody
of extremism."
This "law" is so spot on, but I never realized that it had an actual name,
and an ominous one at that. Combine it with Murphy's Law and you will get
the warning message that it is seldom possible to be understood in a Vortex
posting.What is often thrown-out to gain a smile can have the opposite effect without a smiley ... but I was hoping that the insight referred to the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe, given that even without the Internet, or rants about Creationism, Poe's intent was often deliberately hard to distill from the words. I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it... :-)
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