Tunesmith - A couple of months ago, when Joe American was all up in arms over the French refusal to knuckle under to Bush & Blair's war machine, I started a thread in which a "petition" suggested that The Statue of Liberty be given back to the French. Somebody thought I was serious and chewed me a new asshole for being a typical American Francophobe. You're right, irony just doesn't work here. I think a lot of it has to do with alcohol-induced tunnel-vision, but there are some who, cold sober, wouldn't know irony if it jumped up and bit 'em on the ass.

Bruce