I suppose a pithy epithet and a capped dee smilie are the most I could have expected. Really I was expecting outright deletion. Lucky me.

From Scott Ramsoomair
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Dear Kaz,

Move out from your mom's basment. All future messages forwarded to the trash. :D

-cheers
"

I didn't expect the nobleman to have any reply at all, but I suppose the magnanimous nature of giants shows up in all different ways.
Too bad he guessed wrong. Also I don't know where the basment is, or if my mom even has one, but I suppose we can't always check for typos while slinging ya mama jokes at lesser beings. I could take a lesson in bigness from this man.

Too bad I'm too petty and have a little spare time on my hands. It's time to convince all of you (outside of this exchange) to stop reading bad comics and supporting the businesses that support them. It's time I send similarly toned polite messages to the banner ads asking them to withdraw.
Yeah, nothing will come of that, either. But doing anything more would put me out of concerned citizen territory and into sociopathic wacko territory. Wish me luck!

As for why I present you with the exchange in full and then ask you to not consider it when making your decision, this is a time honored technique of the snarky and paradoxical, usually in a courtroom. A way of pre-biasing people's opinions while coming off clean of personal responsibility for that bias. All the same, what happened here is a simple artist warding off wackos without expending too much effort. As for the epithet, he simply has to keep up the demeanor of a joker if he's going to keep coming up with material (or so he thinks) for his comic, so by now, a passing insult for a wacko should be par for the course.

So yes, I'm serious about this. Comedy is a serious matter. This is serious business.
Just not all that important.

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