Sense of humour lapse? I put the "winky smily" in front of the sentence to show it was tongue in cheek and not a serious comment.
Yes, probably so. Sorry, F3G.
I maintain, though, that looking in a written checklist after the donkey has checked out ain't clever. For a start, if it's carb icing by the time you've got to carb heat in your checklist all the heat will have gone out of the exhaust manifold.
QDM