Quote from Arthur Deco:
Gabby, thanks as always for your kind remarks. But I have lernt over the years that if someone finds my prose to be amusing they are either very strange individuals, didn't get that I was actually being serious, or are Canadian. I have written for publication often enough to find that for my trouble what I usually get in return is catty remarks like "I could have written THAT!" and less spendable money than I could have made flipping burgers. So now I confine my literary talents to writing elegant trading code. My curse of unintended humor often follows me there, too.
Let me add as a fit epitaph to your mordant thread that most people will not say they trade NQ because they are embarrassed that they do so. NQ is to ES as pornography is to art.