I think I've got the meaning behind your crankiness figured out after these years.
I'm not cranky. I love this stuff.
Brain-meltingly phrased arguments are what make the internet great.
No, I didn't mean you
You are guilty of using a stored-up argument then. You had something you wanted to say anyway, so you were happy to use a dubious pretext. It doesn't work very well on a forum, because people can look back over what was actually said.
A semi-comic analogy is a great way to score some undeserved points though.
I think fandir got so many posts by only registering 6 months later than you, rufus.
But he seems to have gained a large number of them only recently. In my perception, anyway.