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Hi! Padraic Brown <elemtilas@hidden.email> writes: > --- Henrik Theiling <theiling@hidden.email> wrote: >... > Apologies if I insulted your typing skills! I was > pretty sure it was a typo. Ok. >... > Since bird flu is not transmitted that way, I ask again: what > particular reason for equating the transmission of bird flu with > taking communion? *Sigh* Technically, i.e., if considering the whole situation, I was doing this. But sometimes, a statement, including a joke, is about part of a scene only. This was the case here. My intention was to draw a link between a licked spoon and the fear of people of getting bird flu. I was not trying to express that one should fear so, but I was mimicking the reaction of, say, an uninformed person who'd have unreasonable fears. That the spoon was used for communion had nothing to do with my joke. I would have made the same joke with any other spoon-like object. Really, this is nothing! I'm sorry! :-) > I also thought I was clear that licking the spoon > is "vèry bad form". I.e., something not done. I was not contrasting what you said, just stressing the imagination it did happen. > The risk of transmitting anything, bird flu included, is miniscule. Yes. Mrs. Smith from Portswood in Southampton might have run away screaming anyway. (And in case you know that person, and are pissed off again, the situation would become really complicated. :-) ) > It's not a matter of understandability. I was 99% certain you meant > "bird (in)flu(enza)" and not "bird (related) flue(pipe)". The matter > might be seen by some (me for example) as a matter of taste. But no tastelessness was either expressed or implied by me. Sorry if I created that impression. >... but I think this joke was not that funny. The joke was about something different. I insist on not being seen as a person who makes jokes about other people's religion. I do not do that. My apologies if the impression was created, in whatever way. **Henrik -- Relay 13 is forthcoming: http://www.conlang.info/relay/relay13.html