Ministerial disclaimers

You may have noticed that in the post below i included something to cover my ass. A ministerial disclaimer.

Simply, a ramble where you dissect any possible misinterpretation of what you have just said. The time when you diffuse any chance that the reader or listener could get annoyed at you (unless you want them to).

Sometimes i find it funny because they aren't needed. The writer/speaker will go to a tangent that no-one else thought of and plant a seed of questioning that would have gone otherwise unnoticed.

And they are usually easy to spot. It start like this... "Now don't hear me saying..."

Meanwhile, are they important? Yes. (I figure i should end with a disclaimer).