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Thread #81658   Message #1497542
Posted By: robomatic
01-Jun-05 - 03:24 PM
Thread Name: BS: Bush tells another WHOPPER
Subject: RE: BS: Bush tells another WHOPPER
Alba, you wrote:
I will except your offer to suppose what I want then.
Thank you
Regards
Jude


Once more you are ob- er, not totally clear. Either you are trying to be cooperative with a small portion of my immediately preceding post, or you are being ironic, or you are NOT being cooperative, all dependent on your use of the word 'except'.

You could mean it literally, i.e. you are 'excepting' and not 'accepting' my offer.
You could mean it ironically, i.e. indicating that I put myself above my station by deigning to offer you terms on which you might respond to my thread.
You could have had a brain fart and put 'except' down as a near homonym for 'accept'.

In any case, you are, perhaps unconsciously, making out President look that much less like an ass. So maybe not so much unconscious as ironic.