On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 at 13:51:40, Mike Holmans 
 wrote in uk.sport.cricket :

>On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:29:08 -0700 (PDT), rodney.ulyate@gmail.com
>tapped the keyboard and brought forth:
>
>>On Jun 12, 12:28 pm, Mike Holmans  wrote:
>>[...]
>>> Your gratuitously rude language
>>
>>I fail to see where I was anything other than tactful.
>
>If you consider "shirtlifter" to be tactful, then you have a lot to
>learn about diplomacy.

There are lot of stronger terms he *could* have used...
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham