Steve,

I find it hard that you would say such things about me!

:-o


On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

>  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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