Eric:
Now this is where you misunderstood. I was making a joke about how *I* spelled geeze, as if I were the one who read the word "geeze" and "misunderstood" it to be the waterfowl. In effect, I were poking fun at myself, Eric. Playing the noob. Self-deprecation. You seem an intelligent guy -- you didn't get that?
And yes, Eric, after I politely pointed out in my "nice try" first reply to you that the spelling was truly tongue-in-cheek (trying to divert your focus to see the forest, rather than an individual tree), when you then pushed it further and subsequently corrected me on the proper terminology for Canada geese, I did indeed get a bit tweaked. And you're pushing it a third time with the dorky insult -- but I'll let this one go, since dorky/nerdy/geeky doesn't insult me. By the amount of greenies I got on that joke, I'm satisfied there were enough that appreciated it. I've done my job if I made someone smile / made their day.
Umm, no. This is a poor analogy. Your scenario is much more extreme. That is a person who very definitely should be "in the know," rather than somone "playing the noob" to lighten the atmosphere as I was -- and on a topic not even close to being as serious or important as financial reporting. As a matter of fact, how do you know that using the colloquial reference to canadian geese wasn't part of my "playing the noob"? You have no way of knowing, other than my reaction *after* you pedantically corrected me. If you refer to the link to Canada Goose in my previous message, you'll see that even there it's written that these waterfowl are commonly colloquially called "canadian geese" even though it's not purely technically correct -- only a scientific reference corrects it! It may sound "stupid" to you, but apparently to a large populace, it's not only tolerated, but standard form.
And that was the original point of my "nice try" reply to you, Eric -- there was no need for *you* to get into semantics/pedantics about spelling on an obvious homophone joke. It added absolutely no value whatsoever to it, or the thread at large. However, I was cordial to you in that "nice try" reply. Your dinging me that second time, on "Canada geese" vs. canadian geese, is what then got me ticked.
I don't have a problem with you personally, Eric. I do have a problem with people missing the big picture, though, and getting wound-up into such a silly thing as correcting spelling on an obvious homophone joke, real word or not. It's pedantic with a bolded capital "P." Maybe it's a hot-button of mine, in which case I need to practice a little anger management.
However, your overture to move on is a great one, and I agree -- let's just drop this, and let's *both* of us try to see the forest for the trees, ok? I enjoy posting humorous replies, and I like making people laugh. I would like to continue to do so.
Sincerely wishing you a good one,
-Sean
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