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• It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
  -- Salvor Hardin, in Isaac Asimov's Foundatio...
• You have a reputation for being thoroughly reliable and trustworthy.
• You have a reputation for being thoroughly unreliable and untrustworthy.
• You need to acquire a little subtlety.
• You have a reputation for being thoroughly reliable and trustworthy.
  A pity that it's totally undeserved....
• Your messages have the subtlety of a rectal thermometer.