And I am NOT 'pushing hidden meaning'. I merely referred once to a work in which one such was suggested by someone else, written some years ago so perhaps unknown to the next generation ~~ piece of info that I thought might be of interest to some reading this thread who had not come across it before. That's what Mudcat threads are FOR, isn't it?

Why this had made me such an object of obloquy & attack and INACCURATE denunciation from Mike Y ("why, oh why", "spouting", "rubbish") & Steve G ("desperate", "pushing hidden meaning"), I am utterly at a loss to say.

But I will say that I regard it as spiteful and derogatory and unnecessary, and should be much obliged if you would desist. It is distressing me, I do not mind telling you ~~ and I do not normally suffer from a paranoid personality.

"Pushing hidden meaning" up your drivelly rectum, Gardham. Which, as regulars on Mudcat should recognise, is a far-out extreme of abuse for me, who generally avoid such locutions altogether, as unworthy & counterproductive.

~Michael~