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Comment author: ata 28 April 2011 05:18:10AM *  6 points [-]

It is close to certain that ArisKatsaris was joking (imitating the format of an exchange where one person says something about, say, a political candidate named John Smith, and the other person says "Oh, John Smith, isn't that the guy who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry a few years ago?" and the first person says "I dunno, probably a different John Smith", while subverting it by (seemingly very confidently) applying it to a comparatively very uncommon name).

Comment author: Sniffnoy 28 April 2011 05:38:33AM *  2 points [-]

...wow, I entirely failed to pick up on that. >.<