Decorators: an outsider's perspective

[Duncan Booth]

Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter at gmail.com> wrote in 
news:mailman.1946.1092911824.5135.python-list at python.org:

> On 17 Aug 2004 16:25:51 -0400, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
>> No, no, no, Americans get humor just fine -- what they don't get is
>> irony.
> 
> That'd be "something like iron"?

I remember one newsgroup deciding that all posts which included irony 
should be indicated with an appropriate emoticon, namely (Fe)