[kergonath]

Yes, sure, I get the jokes. I just found it puzzling that someone would think it stopped.

And I don’t talk about work at parties anyway :)

[eminent101]

But nobody in this thread thought it (simplifying assumptions) stopped. You seem to be making an assumption that someone thought that and then posting long explanations that nobody asked for. I read the "P.S." of grand-grand-parent comment as good humor. Nothing there implied that they really thought that simplifying assumptions would/should stop.

Imagine a world where every bit of humor is interpreted literally and then refuted pedantically! What kind of a world would that be?