You must type awfully fast or have a very slow politeness filter, if the excess verbiage you used to lambast the poster and his suggestion and (particularly) to lament your not having pre-emptively posted your standard reply was less of a time consideration than coming up with the idea of posting only the labeled link would have been.

DON'T USE EVAL FOR THIS!

Had that been the entire body of your post, you would not have been rude, and you would have been every bit as effective. Your histrionics did not add any effectiveness.

We're not really tightening our belts, it just feels that way because we're getting fatter.

In reply to Re^3: A modest request of Merlyn by Roy Johnson
in thread A modest request of Merlyn by delirium

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