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>I'm ready to bet on which parts of your response to John will form the basis of his retort. I'l be happy to private them to you if you are at all interested, though you can probably guess yourself.
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>Did you win the bet?

I just now sent that, so no, there's no bet in place.

By the way, rather than assume that you wouldn't be answering, or had possibly missed the message, I went with the concept that it was a very deep message worthy of your ponderous consideration before you responded.

Jim