A mouse in the house

hoefla said "doesn't your brother own a spade", implying that the previous poster should have hit a captured with a garden implement rather than putting it in a plastic bag and swinging it against a wall.

I made the rather crude and clumsy pun of interpreting that as asking whether the brother owned a black person and stating that the authorities frowned on that. This implying slavery.

However, my post arrived after people, including hoefla had returned to talking about peppermint oil. Rather than checking which post I had replied to someone argued that it wasn't illegal. However, they didn't mention the peppermint oil so, rather than clarifying the misunderstanding, I argued obliquely at cross purposes in order to make them appear to be stating that slavery, particularly of black people, wasn't illegal.

However, as no one else cottoned on to what was going on, only I was in on the joke. It wasn't particularly funny. I'm the sort of sad individual who find humour in ridiculous pun based accusations of racism and misunderstandings in arguments. That was silly really because neither of those things have every really had much traction on this forum. At all. Ever.