>>Sorry, it was a bad joke, in poor taste, but that's my sense of humour. But it no way suggested that you had anything to do with the sniping.
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>Ticked me off a bit when I realized you wouldn't write such a thing to anyone else but me and maybe Srđan. So...

I just had the image in my head of those poor people having to dodge snipers during their ordinary day's business, and compared it with the idea of someone lazily strolling the street reading, and the old sick joke monster in me took over my fingers at the keyboard.

Again, I apologise.

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>>But I still don't get the allusion of "reading and walking was a massive sport in all the colonies which was banned by the colonial rulers ...". I know not of any such ban.
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>...I invented a bit of apocryphal history just to show that we could achieve symmetry there at a drop of a hat.