"The show's been off the air for a while, so his death shouldn't bother you".

That's how this comes off. By the way, many people are completely aware that they've been off the air, and still find this saddening. In your attempt to be clever or somehow revealing a secret, you've come off as arrogant and insensitive.

(Please don’t invent quotes and write them as a separate paragraph – it looks as though I wrote the inflammatory text, when in fact I meant nothing of the kind.)

I thought that this news meant the show was ending and was surprised to read that actually the show would not change. So I thought I’d highlight this fact.

As the target of misunderstandings at times, I get it, and your meta-point is taken. My previous statement about the perceived insensitivity to the actual story, Tom's death, stands.

>Soo… Apparently the show as you all have known it for the last two years will be unaffected. Alternately, the show died two years ago and you never noticed.

>There was no offense intended.

The use of ellipses for dramatic silence , elongated words, and the personal targeting of your statements ("YOU all have known..." "YOU never noticed") indicate that "There was no offense intended." was really just a statement made for the sake of indemnifying yourself from the backlash of impersonal comments made about the death of another human, rather than a statement of ignorance and apology.

I don't honestly believe you when you say that you felt this thread was about the radio show going off the air rather than subject/topic line itself (the death of a person). I think that's an excuse to make your actions appear more excusable.

RIP Tom. You shaped much of my youth.

I have never actually heard the show, so yes, I did actually think that at least half the focus was that the show would end – the show’s name is also in the title. Furthermore, since I never listened to the show, I excluded myself by writing “you” instead of “us”.

If I were to analyze your statements as you did mine, I might come to the conclusion that you are merely lashing out at anyone who seem to be insensitive to your loss. But I shouldn’t do that, as ascribing motives to you would demean this conversation. It’s better to keep things civil and polite.

I made some statements about the status of the show – nothing about the person, mind you – and they were misinterpreted as insensitive to the person. I made clarifications, but now you won’t believe me. I really don’t see what else I can do, now.

I will certainly refrain from commenting in mortuary articles from now on – there appears to often be too much grief for actual civilized discourse.

> Soo… Apparently the show as you all have known it for the last two years will be unaffected. Alternately, the show died two years ago and you never noticed.

You really sound like you're an asshole. Maybe you didn't intend that, but you do.

That was not my intention, no.

>So I thought I’d highlight this fact that nothing substantial would change.

Nothing substantial, aside from the fact that world has lost one of smartest, funniest, and most humble people ever to provide untold hours of entertainment on the radio...

The show has been playing reruns for a couple years now (I thought this was common knowledge?), but Tom's passing is indeed a sad day. He was absolutely someone who embodied the hacker ethic.

For the record, I was talking about the show. The show would be unaffected, which was what I wrote. Please don’t read offense where none was intended.