Mike Ash wrote:
In article ,
"good grief" wrote:

To quote one of my favorite books: "Can't you recognize bull****?
Don't you think it would be a useful item to add to your
intellectual toolkits to be capable of saying, when a ton of wet
steaming bull**** lands on your head, 'My goodness, this appears to
be bull****'?"

I dunno.........I sorta thought that would have been obvious to this
group and didn't need me to point that out. Maybe I was wrong. :-)

Oh sorry, I assumed you were being serious. It's hard to tell when
someone is joking on Usenet if you don't know them, since there are so
many kooks and crazies around.

When confusion like that happens, it always reminds of this exchange in the
Steve Martin movie "Roxanne":

(Gee, I guess it's online too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EtpDhQ9SoE )

Roxanne Kowalski: "I was being ironic."

C.D. Bales: "Oh, ho, ho, irony! Oh, no, no, we don't get that here. See,
uh, people ski topless here while smoking dope, so irony's not really a, a
high priority. We haven't had any irony here since about, uh, '83, when I
was the only practitioner of it. And I stopped because I was tired of being
stared at."