Pat Flannery wrote:
That was still a very poor choice of words and analogy on his part.
I do like the exclamation point; more scientific reporting needs
exclamation points!
Let's! Make! Science! Exciting!
[snipped, for the sake of innocent keyboards everywhere]

I almost forgot to mention how hilarious your send up was,
and quite on the money with regard to the silly overreach
of PAO flacks everywhere.