Death said:
Way to focus on the color commentary and miss the "core" of my question.
Again: Would you care to explain that porch comment?
Actually Death, what you wrote, or better yet, the implication in what you wrote really disturbed me, and not in some silly, superficial way either. It took me a while to figure out that the race/ethnicity/religion/national origin/take-your-pick card was being played in a rather shallow attempt to turn what I wrote into something having a bigoted, racist, xenophobic, or some other equally nasty meaning. There isn’t anything even remotely funny about that, and it in no way reflects what I intended.
Before you muster the PC shock-troops, I’ll explain the meaning of my harmless little phrase. “Get back on the porch” was what a good friend of mine used to say to his 3 year old daughter when she would wander off in search of trouble while we were shooting hoops, throwing the football around, or doing something out in his yard- other than paying attention to her. He had to say it to her so often that it became sort of a catch phrase between us and our mutual friends, kind of along the lines of “whatever,” “you’re a trip,” “that was cool,” and other responses said aimlessly under all too common circumstances. Period.
Your initial, profanity-laden post seemed so angry that I actually took it to be a joke of sorts, and responded in kind- with what I felt was harmless humor, in obviously a vain attempt to jokingly say “hey man, calm down” or “relax.” But now I’m not so sure: I suppose you really were serious which would make me guilty of the same thing as you: assuming. For that Death, I owe you an explanation as outlined above, and for nothing else.
I can’t decide which is worse, the hypersensitivity some people display over a misunderstood word or phrase, or the fact that they are taught to reflexively think that what I wrote must have another meaning, either overt or covert, and that it is racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, etc. Rest assured that there was no hidden connotation, no dastardly motive, no slight of hand, and no coded message to the John Birch Society. To give credence to such reasoning would be about as fair as saying that, based upon your last few posts, one could accurately conclude that you have an unusual interest in necrophilia and other men’s genitals.