[longshadow]

If the allegations aren't taken seriously, and made light of, it's an involvement. As such you are involved. AndrewC sees this involvement as a defense of a "beleaguered associate". I see it as flippancy. Except for the juvenile tag-team directly active.

I appreciate your translation of AndrewC's comments. I thought he was insinuating that I was involved in making similar allegations.

Yes, I have ribbed him unmercifully over his allegation. And he has taken it well. But a little derision is to be expected when one makes an extraordinary claim without providing extraordinary evidence. And "piling on" is a normal turn of events in such circumstances.

But if he thinks making fun of his allegation should be construed as evidence of conspiracy, then I reserve the right to ask him: "Who REALLY took the strawberries?"

[Nebullis]

On the other hand, when it was all so ridiculously obvious to me and others that the impersonation was an E-sider (Patrick Henry, for example, has stated such), I'm surprised and rather amused at the scramble to remove oneself from joining the allegation.