Shrove Tuesday today, Forty Days of Lent now. I'm giving up responding to anything that feels like a troll, however tempting. Maybe by the time the Forty Days are up this nastiness about GUESTS will be sorted out. Or maybe I won't feel tempted to wade into action. Or something.

There's the story of the man being led out to die - and he tells the King, "Stop - I've a wonderful secret. I know how to teach a horse to fly. It'll take me six months, but I promise I can do it. And if I can't, you can execute me then - and what have you lost?"

So the King thinks, and it makes sense, because a flying horse would be a great thing to have. So he agrees, and the man is led off to the royal stables.

And a friend of the man slips up to him and he says "Are you made - you don't know how to teach a horse to fly in six months or a hundred years!"

And the man says "Look, in six months maybe the King will due. Or the horse will die. Or I will die. Or, who knows, maybe the horse will learn to fly after all..."

Forty Days ignoring the parasites who infest this site, and maybe they'll all be gone. Starting with any who come on to this thread and make some pathetic attempt to flame me. (And that doesn't mean GUESTS as such - it means the kind of people who'd make any self-respecting person feel embarrassed at allowing that to appear at the start of their post in case they get associated with them.