Thanks, John. See that is where email is tricky. No body language, facial expression, or tone of voice to give clues. (Can you tell I just finished three hours of linguistics class?)
Had we been out for dinner and he made a similar comment, when we were having a lighthearted conversation, I probably would have just laughed...
At least he didn't offer to send me a pic of his junk like some of those guys who first surfaced on match!