CarolC -- That makes sense. There are still some Friends who use Thee and Thou publicly, for reasons of principle. But most, I think, see it is setting ourselves apart from others, which goes against the whole Equality and Simplicity testimonies.

I use it occassionally, with friends online (if I remember), especially if I want to emphesize a cozy or affectionate tone between us, and also to help me keep track of the proper grammar and which form is the direct object and which is the indirect (Hey, I'm also a grammar geek, and a recovering English Major).

Mrrzy -- the form of that joke that I read was between a farmer and a mule, who'd never plow a straight row, and the Baptist farmer would mock the Quaker in the mule's hearing. So after the threat was made, the mule plowed the straightest rows in the county...