>I have no idea what your last post is supposed to mean.
I understand that he means that somebody tried to make a point, but didn't quite manage to do it.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)