Thank you Nick.  I'm been larding all day, (not on e-mail), and I didn't
know what to call it!

Merle

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Prof David West <[email protected]>wrote:

> **
>
> I would take care with the term fluffing as there is a job title - fluffer
> - and what a fluffer does is fluffing - but it is not something anyone on
> this list would care to do, or so I assume.
>
> davew
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013, at 03:04 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
>
> Doug -
>
>
> What do they call it when people intersperse comments to an email within
> the body of the quoted email?
>
> <Lard>Well, I think Nick referred to it as "Larding" and then found some
> etymological foundation in adding layers of fat into leaner meats....  it
> is probably mostly intended to reference the structural aspect of this
> phenomena, but it might also have some semantic meaning too?</Lard>
>
>
> Fluffing?
>
> Or is that something else?
>
> <FluffyLard>
>
> <DisgustingImage>
>
> I think I know what you are referring to, and yes, this is definitely
> "fluffing"... I think I'm one of *your* most devout fluffers when I'm not
> being derisive (insert image of a motley fool here), in fact.  There is no
> point in not being ready to perform when it is your turn after all?
>
> </DisgustingImage>
>
> </FluffyLard>
>
>  <WhimsicalImage>
>
>  I'm suddenly noticing that FluffyLarding is a variant on TarNFeathering?
>
> </WhimsicalImage>
>
>  Fluffingly Yours,
>   - Steve
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