[vidarh]

Frankly, having re-read it from Internet Archive (http://web.archive.org/web/20110225075111/http://tomayko.com...), the dialogue might have been unrealistic, but the "wife" this is aimed at is substantially more technical than most people. (EDIT: and reading the comments to his original post, it was a conversation with his actual wife.... )

If I tried explaining REST to my mom or some of the non-technical guys at the gym, for example, it'd have taken vastly more explanation.

Frankly I consider taking it down like this cowardly. If he wanted to address these "concerns" then replace "(my) wife" with "Bob" or something else and add a line that "some people took offense to the original version, so I've changed it to avoid taking the focus away from the purpose" or something to that effect.