He shoots, he... Oh.

Maybe it was my 'tone of type'. Perhaps if i'd made greater use of italics, 'quote' marks or just finished the whole piece off with a :-p. Maybe then people would have read it all in the nature it was intended.

But Brian, you? You were so close. Really you were. But then you went and contradicted the nature of your whole post and took *yourself* too seriously.

So for those who didn't 'get'-it. May I offer the following caveat:

It was just a bit of fun, people!

There, do you see it? The 'f' word? Good. Now i'd like to caveat that caveat with (well... Um... another caveat).

It *was* meant as fun, but not as irony or sarcasm. It was intended as a flag, a badge (not a medal or reward) or, if you prefer, a lapel-pin from your football teams' last championship winning year. It was the digital equivalent of a rock groups' tour t-shirt. Sure it'll be faded and increasingly pointless over the years, but people would see it and know that 'you were there'.

I mean, it wasn't a swastika or a confederate flag or anything. It was a symbol of my feeling of unity for our little band of people. And most people I recieved mails from took it as such.

So it's a shame then, that certain people mis-construed it as 'so' much more. But i'm tired of apologising to you, because my post was (intended as) a fun, positive post.

Those of you who have posted otherwise, may I suggest that you look at the negativity in your posts, and think if you've had a positive effect with the words that you typed?

Oh, i'm sorry. Did that sound too serious? Here...

:-p

(Please take it in the nature it was intended).