gracious responses

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:54:05 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote:

> Well thank goodness for that.  Of course the person to whom you've
> alluded has been defended over on the tutor mailing list, seriously, and
> as I've said elsewhere after referring to my family as pigs!!!

Since pigs are at least as intelligent as dogs, and in their natural 
state nowhere near as filthy as the stereotype of the pig in a sty, that 
isn't as big an insult as it was intended.


-- 
Steven