CLifton --

I'm sorry...no offense intended

If I was curt it was not because I was being condescending, but because I am posting in between other things at work, so I have to steal small opportunities. I certainly don't think of myself as the only -- and sometimes not even one of the -- intelligent posters out there. I mean out here...well, whatever. Anyway, pax, I apologize if I seemed other than purely conversational.