>>>It's not as though Ed is alone in his thinking... :)
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>>That doesn't mean he isn't thinking alone, on his own. Doesn't look like needing help there.
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>Good turn on words... :o) Once again you caught me not using the appropriate phrase to express my meaning! :o)

The phrase was appropriate or better than just appropriate. I was just trying to flatter/flatten Ed by emulating style, and this "came as if ordered" (which is a phrase from home).