OK, Jeff, if it makes you happy. Your comment to Ricky was rude, and I'm sorry that you don't have the good grace to apologize for it. Did it occur to you that Ricky might not be a native English speaker, and perhaps he is not entirely familiar with the conventions of online etiquette here on UT? For you, there can be no such excuse. BTW - there is no such word as "tackless", unless you mean I'm missing a tack. And please spare me the tough boy posturing. Surely you don't have the laughable idea that I'm afraid to face you in an argument! I assure you that I have no intention wasting my time responding to whatever pathetic comeback you can muster up.

Mike

>Not as rude or tackless as you not confronting me directly. If you care to say something to me, be a man and say it to me.
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>>>>Please don't CC me. I could care less about what you are saying.
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>>>I feel the same about an excess of "cc".
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>>>But allow me point out that the correct (and more logical) phrase is: "I couldn't care less..."
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>>Hilmar,
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>>How tactful of you not to mention that Jeff's remark was rather rude, and needlessly so. I think a private message from Jeff to Ricky would have been more appropriate, especially considering that he started the thread.
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>>Oh, and by the way, Ricky, the singular of Bill Gates is still Bill Gates. One of him is more than enough to go around!
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>>Mike
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>>P.S. Congrats to you too, on your well-deserved POY status!