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Originally posted by Zimphire: And he made it clear that he was making such a joke how? I understand what he meant, but the fact it "went over my head" wasn't because I somehow just didn't get it, but because the poster of said comment wasn't very good at making his joke come across. I have asked 10 people in my AIM list, all of them didn't see what went over my head either. Timo just didn't do a good job getting his "joke" across. In forums like this, one cannot view body language, nor facial expressions, nor tone of voice. You have to be a bit more obvious. You know a  here and a  there.
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Smileys are cheating. If you say (write) something it stands on its own, or should. A smiley doesn't make it better or worse, funny or unfunny. If you need visual cues to tell you to look for a joke, I feel sorry for you. I guess that you must be the sort of person that needs canned laughter on a sitcom to tell you when to laugh. (as must be your AIM buddies).
And 'I understood what he meant' is apparently an outright fib - If you understood, then your complaints are facile, if your complaints are valid, then you patently didn't understand.
I don't know Timo from a hole in the ground, but the pun was obvious to all.
As I said before - Buck up.