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In article <718326448snx@bilton.demon.co.uk> johnb@bilton.demon.co.uk (John Burton) writes:
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>I apologise inadvance if this is an FAQ. 

After I answered the person's actual question by email (to the best of
my ability), I began thinking about the quoted sentence.  Miss Manners 
talks about apologies that do not make things better, and this seems 
to be one of them.

It seems to me that the quoted sentence says "I can't be bothered to
look at the FAQ list.  I'll just sit back and let others do even that
minimal research for me.  Ans I'm not even ashamed of it: I'll boast
that I haven't looked at the FAQ list."

I can understand laziness; I often share it.  What I don't understand is
a sort of aggressively proclaimed laziness, thinly disguised under a
pseudo-apology.

Am I missing the point here?  Is there another interpretation, one that
does more credit to the original writer (and to the hundreds of others
who post essentially the same thing)?

-- 
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems                      brown@Ncoast.ORG
Cleveland, Ohio, USA