Bill; I am happy to accept you appology. We have had a couple of off-list dialogs during recent years and I liked the person that I was communicating with. I have no doubt that you did not intend to be anything other that light-hearted when you started this thread.
In your sub-culture All Fools Day is still practiced on April 1. I understand cultural and subcultural differences. Having grown up in the Washngton DC area and having lived in the DC area for most of my adult life I have encountered inumerable cultural-oops. I have also made quite a number of cultural-OOPS myself.
I too waited a bit before posting my reply; and I am glad that I tempered my response to the extent that I did. I am also pretty sure that this hit a nerve with me far more than it would (or did) with most everyone else. So I am aware that my reaction was not an average reaction.
Bill; you are in my mind a guy that wraps himself in the Constituion and you still have my respect.
My cardiologist will respect you too as long as you pay him proptly for my emergency office visit yesterday! LOL
-E
I did find some interesting history of All Fools Day which included a charming list of pranks here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_fools_day (Message edited by u14steelgtr on April 02, 2008)
