I don't mean to offend you by asking you about these cases.

I didn't mean to offend any of the guys out there.

I didn't mean to offend the memory of your mother.

"I did not mean to offend anyone," Parrish said last night in a telephone interview.

"I didn't mean to offend anyone, let's just leave it at that."

I did not mean in any way whatsoever to offend you.

"I don't mean to offend you, but why would you want to leave society?"

Sorry, I didn't mean to offend, it just bugs me.

"I did not mean to offend with my common songs."

"I certainly don't mean to offend anyone," he said in a statement issued Thursday.