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>>It was a joke Evan ... I just forgot the smiley :-)

It would pass my debugger as flawless. In my home city, it's impolite to laugh first when you make a joke - and a smiley is just that.

OTOH, I've met a lot of people who don't understand this way of Buster Keaton joking (keeping a serious face when you make a joke), and specially on the Web, with all the cross-cultural issues, sometimes it creates great confusion. "Cross-cultural" here may mean "people from another city" as well... I've had a guy who'd interrupt me when I mentioned yesterday's weather, to ask whether it was a joke or not, just in case.