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The one and only thing his like ever understands is a good swift kick
in the ass. That is what I am here for.


Like I've said before, name the time and place.


I suggest dueling pistols at dawn down by the riverside on the banks of
the Ohio. I will try to get Tom Sherman to be my second, but he has
made himself scarce of late and I don't know if I can find him. No
doubt, you have some scofflaws you could spare who could be my second
if I am unable to get Tom Sherman.

It is extremely important that all of this be done with the utmost
honor, as that is the only thing that matters to me at my present stage
of life. I will expect you to be dressed in your best formal attire as
will I. I think 10 paces will be about right as my eyesight is not what
it used to be. I think we should also use black powder firearms in
order to enhance the dignity of the occasion. I will go down to the
local pawn shop and see what I can find.


Ok, Ed. That's funny. You're not much of an arguer, but you are a decent
clown.

At last ... someone to appreciate me! We clowns are desperate for a
little feed back from time to time. Instead all I get from these freaking
newsgroups are serious types who take me seriously. Of course, sometimes
I am serious, but mostly I am not. It is really strange how so many do
not seem to know how to read me. However, it may be my fault. I will have
to work on my writing skills more.

While you are there (pawn shop), see if they sell red, puff noses. If you
are going to accept the title "clown", you might as well dress the part.
We don't know how to read you because, by your own admission, you have had
the human contact of a mole. You can't hit someone with a stick then jump
back and proclaim "that was funny, wasn't it?". A sense of humor is
developed around people, not buried in a dusty corner of a library.

Humor is a very difficult thing to define. What is often funny to one person
will not be in the least bit funny to another person. Most humor is of the
slapstick variety, crude and dumb (Jerry Lewis). That can never appeal to
types like me.

By the way, once you have to explain humor, it is no longer humorous. That
is why I do not put smileys all over my posts. I want folks to get it on
their own. Am I being serious or not? Sometimes I do not even know. I depend
on others to tell me.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota