AIEEEH CHIWAWA!(sp.) That's it, isn't it? On the net we don't know who's having an especially bad day do we? If you've just buried your Grandma, and some cheerful soul (maybe your's truly) makes some remark about the average age of his concert audience the other night being "deceased", it's gonna sound awful. Two or three like that, and one Mudcatter (or two or three) are gonna think the first is a total bastard....when all they might have been trying to do was be ironic or funny.I use the word "nurd" constantly, and my friend Henry can't understand why I'm being so critical of myself. I explain that I often use words in the opposite way the mainstream does. He just shakes his head and says "but why do you have to...don't you think you're as good as the rest of us"? I doubt he'd ever understand the unintentional irony in his words.
Rick (Doomed To Be Ironic)