Absolutely correct! Oh, and answer a question in as many paragraphs as possible, while not directly answering it.

The longer the better. Frankly if a message isn't a few paragraphs long, I feel it doesn't have anything to say and I skip it.

Modern communication sends millions of characters over the lines per second. So I prefer it when writers of posts employ words in such a way that they can write sentence after sentence, going on and on and on with needlessly flowery and/or empty language, and still after all of that, fail to really communicate anything whatsoever which is the whole point when you think about it.

But if a message is BOTH long AND well-written, I'm intimidated by it! So I only read long posts by poor writers.

So I guess you're saying that jaguar is your hero here? Good deal.

Colour me stupid *pauses for the predicable flurry of insults to go past* but are you insulting or complementing me? I"m honestly not sure what you mean.

We call that a left-handed compliment.

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I'm sure this should be in the Word Usage Map thread, but around here we call it a 'back-handed' compliment. Nice diplomatic recovery there, guys.

On a completely unrelated subject (thereby showing that I'm really paying attention) I will try to take all your advice re. Cellar etiquette and improve the quality of my posts to assure maximum readability, readership and entertainment value. I apologize for my earlier attempts to be clear and concise.

I can think of nothing more to say, so allow me to continue. No one mentioned it, but should I also include many personal attacks, laced with colorful profanity (as well as a bunch of made-up insults that sound good to me but make no sense to anyone else)? In addition, I guess I should show my fervor, and therefore, my CORRECTNESS about a particular point I am making, by typing so quickly and furiously as to missplel a efw wodrs, you goddamn pantywaist commie pinko fags. :angry:

And don't think that just because I call those with whom I disagree 'commie pinko fags' that I find myself aligned in any way with neo-fascist capitalist pig-dogs :eek: *Sigh* Whay can't we all just get along? :confused: Oh, yeah, I'm trying to use a lot more smilies, too. :)

So, thanks again, everyone, for the useful advice. I hope I'm doing better now.

PS. Just to pad my message, in order to make it long enough to arouse UT's notice, I'm including this irrelevant, [url=http://uselesslink.com]useless link[url].

I think she's got it.