For the second: you know very well which response by Joe Offer I meant, so either you are having a little joke (fair enough), or something else is happening; I don't know which. Should I be offended?

I have no idea which particular response you are referring to or where it can be found. For I and others may not have even been aware that it was made. For it may have been later inserted into another post as an editing comment intended as not to refresh the thread?

Perhaps you can provide it for us here so we can debate this response in as much detail as the question? No offence to you or anyone else was intended......

For those who may have also missed the response referred to - if you look back a few posts - you may have over-looked yet another response from Joe Offer.

You may have over-looked it because - when you last looked - it was not there. It has sneaked-in (in big-brother brown writing) - so as not to refresh the thread. But as it is now there - perhaps some attention can be given to what is said there and why it needed to be said in this (back-door) fashion?