U didn't write the book on Hugh, Still, Chongo did. And being figmentary and lower in order, as primates go, you can't expect him to know about such things. But I think it was probably not Hugh who did the lateral circumcisions, but a distant cousin from the JEwish side of the family, Juwannai Shudgetda Briss. He was a rabbi from a small town in Northern Poland, driven out by Cossacks, and when he fled with his small family to America he decided to do circumcisions instead, because, as he put it, the tips were better. Hugh's side of the family never acknowledged those ancestors, insisting that they were all plain Americans, or "Merkins". little suspecting the linguistic threads this assertion would weave. Some day, of course, all this selective ignorance will come back and visit them, and hopefully bite them in the ass.