You may. I have been wrong on many things. This is indeed the most embarrassing.
Don’t sweat it. Being human means you are going to be a bonehead from time to time. Just think what it must be like to be a Democrat—they are boneheads all the time. And we don’t know what you look like and we don’t know where you live.
I think the only thing to do is for you to post a third vanity thread, calling for all FReepers to get together around their computers and start singing Kum-Bay-Yah until Rosy Fingered Dawn appears on the horizon beconing the beginning of a new day and a thousand new chances to further embarrass yourself.