Was that entire thread started to set up for the punchline, or was it just a drive-by appropriate moment? :)

I wondered that too :-)

A: Thinks that the series used to be numbered
B: Looks up numbering via the tag
C: Thinks about commenting about it
D: Comments about it
E: Thinks of quip about not being too much to ask
F: Makes quip.

I'm not sure if the ordering is ABCDEF or ABCEDF or ABECDF, so I can't answer for sure. My memory is faulty...