----- Original Message ----- From: <isham-research.freeserve.co.uk at pop.pol.net.uk>; <quk at isham-research.freeserve.co.uk> > > There is a difference between humor and irony. I think the latter was > > intended. > > There is a saying in England that Americans are immune to irony. 'Irony' - doesn't that mean 'like iron'? :-) Jim Haseltine