"Think you could send Joel a sample of your SOG when they are done ?"

"I was simply asking if he was going to send out samples from his SOG"

No...you were asking him to send YOU a sample. To me that's begging. So I guess a person thinking people begging for samples, which is what you were doing no matter how you try to explain it away, makes me an asshole. Always interests me how people will attack someone who's just stating pure facts when they don't work out for their purpose. I bet you call a lot of people assholes.