Glen -
except that some apiests (is that a word?)
My (very) bad. I bungled that at several levels... I was trying to
coin a pun (ape-ist) and didn't even spell that right, much less
meta-tag it properly with "(pun intended)" (rather than "(is that a
word?") or provide enough background (I was drawing a parallel in my
mind between colony-animal behaviour and the colloquial use of the
term "to ape").
Damn it. I was hoping to respond before you came back around. I read
it as a-piest: someone who lacked pie-ism. Then pie-ism could mean
either 1) dogmatic piety or 2) dogmatic ceremony surrounding the
creation and consumption of pie.
I'm definitely an apiest, since I lack any -ism(s) relating to piety
or pie, or the piety of pie ... though I admit to being pi-qued by
pi-ism ... or, assuming you're using the right e-mail client π-ism.
Touche'
(and yes, my Thunderbird likes your character encoding)
- Steve
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