Dear Proxy,

Thanks for the link.
I wonder though what they mean
by "extra benefits?"
Full state benefits for each wife?
Now that certainly would mean that
they recognise polygamy in the UK
as you originally suggested.

Dear Squeers,

I think you're pulling my leg.
Much as I may enjoy it, I can't
however take you seriously.

Dear Hasbeen,

I should have known better.
You're a sweetie!

Foxy,
"in Britain and Canada, immigration and welfare rules tacitly admit that polygamy,
which remains illegal in both countries, is one of the new facts of life."
http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=26830

My dear lady (Foxy), the truth is always outrageous, and the virtuous a lie. You need not take me seriously, but my verities have the virtue of verisimilitude--whatever they lack in the abstract.

Squeers,
<<my verities have the virtue of verisimilitude>>
Your assinine alliterations have the veneer of verbosity.

Dear Proxy,

Thanks for the link.
Most interesting.

Dear Squeers,

Truth cannot be owned.

We have an arena of warring ideals -
allegory versus mimesis,
versimilitude versus the ideal,
the marvellous versus the probable,
lucidity versus obscurity...

Appearances, appearances, appearances...

Dear Proxy and Foxy (sorry about the alliteration). There are perfectly lucid arguments beneath the persiflage. Don't be put off by the occasional play on words--my meaning is plain, but perhaps too deep?