Hehe, yeah, I didn't miss the joking. You should know by now that mine is a dry wit, and that I tend to reply to fun jabs with long-winded bits of subtle humor that on occasion may take a bit of parsing to appreciate.
Frankly, it's either subtly ironic dry humor or really bad puns, and I'm afraid if I go with the really bad puns, I may be *required* to solo dive. :biggrin:
The one thing they don't teach you when you buy a drysuit is that drysuit divers must *never* say anything to wetsuit divers about how warm and toasty they are. It may be acceptable in *some* situations to answer a direct question about warmth if such a question cannot be avoided, but letting it be known that you're actually going to have to take off a layer before the second dive so you don't get so hot... that is a *huge* faux pas. Occasionally, even something as seemingly innocuous as a smile may be enough to bring physical harm down upon the drysuit diver. (Thankfully, the danger is somewhat mitigated by the fact that it's hard to beat someone up if you're numb and shivering uncontrollably.)
Of course, once a wetsuit diver is finally drawn in to the Dry Side, you can then talk with them about... what's the phrase?... how *freakin'* ***COLD*** it was diving wet. If they're right on the edge, it is also permissible to taunt them in order to help them off the cliff into the land of dry, but you have to be sure they really want to go there, lest you end up shunned more than you would have been had you happened to be telling some *really* great groaners from your pun collection.
