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On 6/4/2013 11:45 PM, Mike Hansen wrote:
>
> Is "Rick Johnson" the alter ego of Xah Lee, or is he the result of a
> cross breeding experiement with a troll by Saruman at Isengard?

He is a Python programmer competent enough with tkinter to have given 
useful answers to me and others. He occasionally enjoys verbal jousting, 
as in a bar, but pollutes his rants with ad hominem slurs.

In other words, your subject line was funny, as a spot on parody of his 
subject lines. Your content was, to me, not funny, and missed the mark.


-- 
Terry Jan Reedy