David, I did catch your pun, and followed up, so I misspoke a little bit when I said I made a bad pun.  I merely enlarged on it (don't want anyone to miss it, a volume of gas migrating to a higher altitude .............. .).

But we probably just need to drop the matter at this point.  thanks, David

---- David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:
> At 01:51 PM 3/26/2012, mcneely4@cox.net wrote:
> >changes), I made a bad pun out of the word.  I think some would be
> >offended.  My wife might under some circumstances,
>
> Ok, I take your point, though with my own friends (a blind man, for
> example, and a leper) we rather took the gallows humor route.
>
> But you don't seem to have realized that I made the pun first.  "a diabatic"
>
> And if anyone was offended by it, I ask forgiveness.
>
> Reckon it's dinner time, or if it isn't it ought to be....
>
> Yours,
> David
>

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David McNeely