What McGrath said.

We can use colon, hyphen, bracket to denote a jokey remark - believe it or not, all my previous posts were tongue-in-cheek.

(Vide 'my Dad and your Dad', supra.)

Pity there ain't a "symbol" to alert the sensitive to tongue in cheek comments. More accurately, if there is I don't know of it, but if there is, I'll lay that a 'Catter knows of it.