On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:02:22 GMT, James Silverton wrote:

> Mr. wrote on Wed, 8 Apr 2009 15:39:36 +0100:
>
>> "james" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> In message >, Richard
>>> Tobin > writes
>>>> In article > ,
>>>> Wader of Doom > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Whoever would have thought that he would top-post though?
>>>>
>>>> When commenting on a post as a whole, rather than
>>>> participating in a discussion, top-posting is the right
>>>> thing to do. Think of it as a post-it note stuck to a
>>>> letter.
>>>
>>> Top posting is never correct in the Usenet. Jim
>>> Follett
>
>>Except when it's funny.
>
> The humor escapes me here, please explain. I think top-posting implies
> that the poster considers the quoted part so tremendously interesting
> that everyone will be familiar with it without re-reading. Perhaps, also
> it agrees with Oscar Wilde, who said, I believe, that he never listened
> to conversations because he was thinking about what he was going to say.

****in' irishmen.

i love wilde, but i love this exchange as well:

OSCAR WILDE to James McNeill Whistler: "I wish I'd said that, Jimmy."
Whistler: "Don't worry, Oscar, you will."

your pal,
blake