I've received more than one email message about a recent post I made which
involved a sophisticated rhetorical technique known as "humour" -- more
specifically, a "pun".

To avoid any further misunderstandings, here is a freshly edited version of
the post, closed-captioned for the humour-impaired (the captions are in
square braces, which look like this: []).

Ok, pay close attention.

Michael Berkowitz wrote:

> Donna Garverick whines:

[Notice Michael Berkowitz's use of the word "whine" here -- this will be
important later.  At this point, you can draw one of two conclusions: 1) MB
is attempting to be humorous; 2) MB is actually accusing Donna Gaverick, a
very well-respected member of the HP3000 community, of "whining" in a public
forum because she can't get some feature she wants added to MPE.  If you
assume, contrary to all common sense, that number "2" is true, then you must
believe MB to be an ubelievable cad -- and I don't think most of you have
know him that well.]

To which I responded:

> Michael Berkowitz then provides the cheesey response:

[Did you get it?  Notice I used the word "cheese"?  Remember the earlier
reference to the word "whine"?  Did you catch the play on the the old grade
joke: "Would you like some CHEESE to go with that WHINE?"]

If you don't think this post is funny, either, then I grant you permission to
press the "delete" key in your email client...wait...NOW!

(I'm witholding the names of those who missed the joke the first time around
to protect Stan's reputation.)

Thank you.  There's nothing more to see here.  Move along.

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