There was a tone of something beyond snarky in them, a je ne sais quoi edge, perhaps.
I hope you can get past it.
Re-reading it, I guess it looks like I'm snarking Bretty, but I was actually not intending it that way at all.
He's received some rather blatant come-ons, IMO, in this forum. Thus, my remarks about the used napkin or partially eaten pork chops being potential "collectibles".
And the watermelon seed, too.