 |
 |
That's fine, Erminia. It's a classic example of how things can go wrong in e-mail, especially with jokes, remarks that would be innocuous in face to face conversation can be magnified into gawd knows what in this medium. I did miss the smiley in your post, i.e. I failed to notice it, and that was the 'tragic' accident. I'm sure Dom's ok, and I love the notion of myself and Al as Mandarins, my suspicion is that we're both quite old-fashioned in some ways, but I wouldn't want to pre-empt Alison on that. I like courtesy, odd as it may sound from me. I suspect Dom's name is not spelt 'Dominique' though. Chuckle. All the Best Dave David Bircumshaw Leicester, England Home Page A Chide's Alphabet Painting Without Numbers www.paintstuff.20m.com/index.htm http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/index.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "passermin" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 12:21 AM Subject: Re: Bad taste > Thank you for the apologies, Dave. > I will have to apologise too to both you and poor > Dominique (who suffered a kind of transversal revenge > paied in Italian - vague - insults just because he > posted his poem after your post, but whose poem I > really enjoied, as always). > > When I posted the recommandation to you and Alison to > be "normal" and not "Mandarin" I was - as I though it > would have been apparent - merely joking about a > cortesy that between the two of you that may sound > "Mandarin". The comment was sisterly, and warm, > accopmanied by a "smilie". > > > > > > > > --- "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > Erminia > > > > I am terribly sorry if my words about your poem > > caused you hurt. This is an > > unreserved apology. I woke up on Friday morning with > > a dark feeling in my > > mind, when you originally posted on the thread in > > question I wasn't > > perturbed at all, I took it in good humour, but > > something came over me on > > waking, I don't know what, it only lasted about 20 > > minutes, but my message > > came out of that blip. I feel very concerned that I > > may have caused hurt. > > > > Best > > > > Dave > > > > > > David Bircumshaw > > > > Leicester, England > > > > Home Page > > > > A Chide's Alphabet > > > > Painting Without Numbers > > > > www.paintstuff.20m.com/index.htm > > > > > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/index.htm > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! > http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ >