"The good old days done come and gone and ain't gonna come back no kinda way." I think that was the title of a song.

For a while I lived in a farming area where no one bothered to lock his front door. Thieves broke into a farm house a couple of miles away from us. They didn't try the door knob, they chain-sawed the door. The mountie said, well, one thing about these thieves. They ain't local.

Appropos the tomatoes mentioned by Jerry, I saw in the paper this morning that agri-scientists have the genome of coffee figured out. There are different strains of coffees now and quite a bit of difference in taste and aroma. Now the coffee growers can match that "average preference" and eliminate all the varieties.

Now take the human genome and ---