>>>>>Whatever. Mike ended his comments in a way I expect from him, so perhaps it shouldn't piss me off. He's come across to me - over time - as a drinker of the M$ Koolaid and a person who has a high opinion of himself and is quite willing to belittle others. So "stick it" was what he got and what he deserved.
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>>>>Did I steal your girlfriend at some point in time?
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>>>From this alone I can guess which person from my twit list took you for an apprentice.
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>>>p.s. The above paragraph is just a demo.
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>>I think this issue is for the most part dead, but I'm not understanding what you mean by the demo.
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>I meant to show how easy it is to snipe too low. For "you are a sniveling kid, you must be bearing some grudge against me, because I otherwise can't believe you'd be so fierce over this - must have been something personal that I don't really remember" (that's what the girlfriend line implies, doesn't it?) you got my poetic of the "someone must have put you up to it (i.e. you aren't that smart/rotten to come up with this yourself)".
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>Of course, I positively hate it when I'm at the receiving end of such a mudsling, so I tried to inoculate this thread against that. Luckily, I turned out looking like a fool (which I don't mind, anyone trying stuff like this, even for demonstration purposes, deserves that), because just a few minutes later there was the peacemaking branch of the thread - all for the better.
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>I'm glad we're back at the regular.

Hey, I don't mind looking like a fool. It happens a lot. At least I know I'm right. :-)