Now this is the sort of dispute which is better conducted via Personal Messages, the Mudcat equivalent to "Come outside and say that again" in a pub.

But when people insist on being GUESTS, and refuse to go through the elemantary process involved in becoming a member, at no cost whatsoever, it's impossible to do it that way.

As for Dragons, here's a song by Chesterton, with a Dragon, and a very appropriate one for this thread as it happens. And here is the first verse for those who are loathe to push the blue clicky thing.

St George he was for England,
And before he killed the dragon
He drank a pint of English ale
Out of an English flagon.
For though he fast right readily
In hair-shirt or in mail,
It isn't safe to give him cakes
Unless you give him ale.

A bit unkind to Dragons, you mioght say. But it was trying to eat a maiden. Which is of course a traditional ritual for Dragons round these parts.