nerd humor

[trochee]

in a discussion of the nuances of the comparative lexical semantics of pet and pat, colleague writes:

The construction of jokes about non-paradigmatic dog touching is left as an exercise for the reader.

and, I might add, the construction of the appropriate context for that joke is left as an exercise for the reader.

okay, I'll shut up and let someone else use your friends-list now. Thanks for tolerating me.