"ut you can't make me join with you in discussing something other than the subject if I want to stick with it."
Keith, I'd be as happy as a pig in the proverbial if you never wrote another word on this forum - but I would never in a million years demand that you didn't.
Where on earth did you et the notion that I was trying to make you "join with you in discussing something other than the subject if I want to stick with it."?
As long as I have been a member of this forum you have been using the accusation of "thread drift" as an attempt to silence opposition - you are the only one in my recollection to ever have done so.
Please feel free to say nothing - I don't welcome birthdays nowadays, but I would gladly receive such a present from you!
Jim Carroll