On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 13:02:26 -0700, Kevin S. Wilson >
wrote:

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>1. Long before those shiny colorful movies that have so thoroughly
>arrested your attention, people told stories of all kinds, both fact
>and fiction, in what we grown-ups like to call "periodicals."
>
>2. The father of diminutive actor Wallace Shawn was the editor of one
>such periodical, in which regularly appeared bits of badly mangled
>prose under the heading "Block that Metaphor."

IOW, you were actually *complimenting* Bobbo by making that
comparison. How typical of him that he would completely miss the
point.

BW