<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thank you for the quick response Santosh.<div><br></div><div>I'd suggest a smilie face :) after a comment in the future would assist those of us too daft to get the humour understand that it is humour.</div><div><br></div><div>-- Dick</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On 2010-05-24, at 6:58 PM, Santosh Rajan wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">It was really a Joke i tried to crack regarding the "Financial" matters. Not a personal attack on Brian.<div><br></div><div>My apologies to Brian.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 7:07 AM, Dick Hardt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dick.hardt@gmail.com">dick.hardt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I will not be as polite as Johannes. This is not acceptable list behaviour. Apologize to Brian or be banned from the list again.<br>
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On 2010-05-24, at 11:31 AM, Johannes Ernst wrote:<br>
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> Santosh,<br>
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> you really keep baffling me. Why in the world is it necessary to say this:<br>
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>> Don't be a cheap skate Brian Kissel.<br>
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> It's an insult, for absolutely no good reason. What about saying "I think it would be money well spent" or something along these lines?<br>
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> But you keep doing this kind of thing. Why? What are you trying to accomplish with a remark like that, that couldn't be accomplished much, much better, with a polite version?<br>
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> Truly curious ...<br>
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> Thanks,<br>
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> Johannes.<br>
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> Johannes Ernst<br>
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