[joeclarke]

That's a fine piece of work there Noah, my man. Impressive example of the pervasive possibilities of cognitive thought and reason not to mention a fine display of the "parry and thrust" of the debate. You slipped a bit in your closing jab - "inane" was a bit over-the-top in context of the mood of your dissertation and that whole "chagrin" and "recall in horror" business earlier on didn't quite seem to fit either.

Otherwise a nice, tidy essay. Well done. Very entertaining. In fact I'm still chuckling.

Now that's just plain funny.