<blockquote>I wasn't belittling you, I was making light of the loooooong comment. I am, however, sorry if I gave you that impression.</blockquote>

Thanks for the clarification.  I truly appreciate it... and yes we were at the nesting limit, so quote and reply was all that remained.

I have a problem with being long winded.   I also try to give people i comment to the benefit of getting the best reply to them I can think of at the time.   Often that takes a bit of work.   I respect you enough and consider you one of my friends on this place, so I felt you worthy of the best response I could come up with.

And yeah... it was friggin' long.    You have your alternate accounts.   I have mine in the form of @chaospoet and partially why I only speak in poem with that account is because it keeps me from rambling and typing these books to people.   In the age of TL;DR I am very aware that most people likely skip totally past anything I write.