::Yes, you have handled the situation quite admirably indeed!  I did follow the whole discussion, as I found it fairly entertaining from start to finish D  And really, you performed impeccably.  I really think that as Wikipedia evolves, we have forgotten that admins are now ambassadors as well as janitors/enforcers, and the kind of professionalism in the face of insanity that you displayed is sorely lacking sometimes in other admins.  Good show! 
 ::It is actually only the 2nd-least-likely-to-succeed block request I have seen.  I didn't save the diff, but I actually saw one once that was a simple one-liner, "Please unblock me so I can continue harassing ".  hehehe... 
 ::The only thing that sucks about his "The admin is Irish!" unblock request is that it may make the Generale D'Amati Massino case a moot point... and then we'll never find out! (