I made a joke that I actually thought was funny, which contained a bit of sending myself up in the process, and you all jumped down my throat.
Go back and look at it again.
Ian, I think you'll find that many (most?) Americans don't appeciate dry British wit:
Then Ian needs to use a Smiley or add an "LOL" when "joking" in this manner. Given Ian's attitude and history of giving Arnold a hard time, it's no wonder the "joke" was taken wrong. I thought the same thing as a few others when I first read it - it was a sarcastic jab at Arnold and Overstreet.