Dear Helga and Peter,

The problem isn't my taking things literally, the problem is your inarticulateness.

So next time, in order to prevent confusion amongst your readers, perhaps you could use grown up language to state what you mean, rather than rant at people who point out that you can't be understood through mental telepathy on the internet.

Can you spell:

A-D H-O-M-I-N-E-M?

There you go, kiddies. Use that one next time, OK?

And when you grow up a little more, maybe you'll figure out a way to grow a thick enough skin to allow you to join the adult games of creatively using insults, irony, wit, parody, and satire in conversations too, instead of just whining at those of us who enjoy playing those games.

No hard feelings. Just sick to death of the tyranny of middle class niceness being used as a club to beat on people who don't consider the jaunty banter amongst adults here to be the moral equivalent of serial murder.