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mjscott2702:

I notice from your user node that you're in Scotland, so a quick note: he used "Thanks for the kick in the butt" as slang for "Oops! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction", with a bit of self deprecation (like Homer Simpson's "D'oh!") thrown in. "Thanks for the whack with the cluebat" would be an equivalent expression (among a bazillion others).

...roboticus

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Re^5: XML::Simple processing
by mjscott2702 (Pilgrim) on Dec 22, 2010 at 16:21 UTC
    Maybe I was a little hasty to jump on that, the tone more than anything else seemed rather ungracious to me, but maybe that's just me - apologies all round.

    Yep, I am in Scotland, but lived in the United States for several years, so can (usually) pick up on slang from either side of the pond - sometime humor (or humour), even self-deprecating, can come across differently from that intended on the page. My bad!

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