You're not particularly given to hyperbole, are you, Mr. Matic?

Mr. O'Matic, if you please ;-)&

Well, given much Islamic rioting in was it Nigeria over a relatively inoccuous comment on the Prophet's possible approval of a beauty contest, world wide rioting over political cartoons, and such things as Holocaust cartoon contests and regular weekly "mar el Amerika" salaams, I think my hyperbole (if any) is derivative of my subject, not vice versa.


I saw on the Wikipedia page about Satanic Verses that Mr. Rushdie's mother spent her final years in Pakistan, where she received a lot of support from ordinary Pakistanis.

I had a Pakistani roomate once. Swell fella. If your point is that there are nice Pakistani people, I'm way ahead of ya.


"BTW, Carol, WELCOME BACK! Gawd how I missed you!"

I don't know whether to take this as sincere or as (barbed) irony.

Sincere!

But I'd love an example from you of how to barb some irony!