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Old 06-01-2013, 06:29 AM   #117
John F
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Originally Posted by ApK View Post
I acknowledge I seemed to have missed the joke.
It was only after you explained it that I decided it wasn't all my failing. Anti-intellectual? If this were a classical music forum, that might be a fair criticism. Here, that analogy wasn't intellectual. At best it was likely to be missed by a large segment of your audience, which is poor for both rhetoric and humor, and at worst it was pompous snobbery.
I was trying to say that in a tone I meant to be humorously and inoffensively flippant. Maybe I failed at that or maybe you just didn't get it. We could ask the hive....

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The hive doesn't get it either.
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