Hi Erik,

It's too late for that now. You wrote it, you're credited with it. All those fuzzy details of those extra words that may or may not have either preceeded or followed your statment are tangential at best and need not be deliberated.

In an ironic sort of way this reminds me of something that fits the topic (sort of) even though it isn't code. It was an old episode of MASH. An undetonated bomb had landed in the middle of camp. Hawkeye and B.J. were disarming it while Colonel Blake read the step-by-step instructions to them (via bull horn) from a safe distance.

The instructions went something like this. First, you need to cut the blue wire.

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But only after you first cut the ....