Dave -
Thanks for the warning...
If you know Doug at all, you know this is precisely what he was
referring to, and while I admit to not being a likely job candidate in
any literal sense, I am happy to go with the metaphor, mostly just to
try to stay one-up on Doug if that is possible (or even desirable?).
I inserted it all within the "<DisgustingImage>" tag to attend to Nick's
(very reasonable) offense of a year or so ago when Doug transmogrified
Nick's discussion about Whirlpools in Tub Drains into the popular and
disgusting term <DisgustingImage> Swirly <DisgustingImage> quite
intentionally. I do believe that Doug has manners, I'm just not sure if
he knows how to use them ;^) ?
- Steve
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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