>>You took issue with something I wrote, and said it was complete baloney. That was the issue under discussion.

Correct. THAT was the issue under discussion -- not what **I** want.

>>I asked you to please elaborate and honestly say what you really want. I thought it was telling you used the smiley nodding his approval right after the “you want to pave it” quote.

I didn't actually insert any smiley. For some reason the system here inserts winking smileys when you close a parenthesis -- ) -- immediately after a quote -- ". Thus " appears -- " ) without the spaces -- even though no smiley was intended.

Try again, but try sticking to the issue this time!
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