> OK, so I've made it as far as chapter 6. Kind of getting
> the hang of it now, but now I'm really at a loss.

"Well, that may not be the long of it, but it's certainly the short of it. So from what did our conversation come? Leave out the punctuation, of course."

The answer is the title of a RinkWorks feature. (Most of them are.)

This feature:
a) is something to do with making long things short
b) is quoted from by the characters in this chapter
c) has a title that has punctuation in it

Pa"and if you still don't get it, maybe you *are* downright stoopid"ul