Carl <carlf@panix.com> writes: > Really? I may have unthinkingly assumed everyone reading was a native > speaker is American English. In my dialect, "out" means "openly > homosexual" far more often than "quitting". The joke had nothing to do > with Mr. Hess and everything to do with mocking my own first reading > of the subject line. FWIW, I recognized your joke as a joke, and it got a chuckle from me.