Fred, WYSIWYG asked people to stop squabbling. Not all complied. If you want to argue, I gift you with daylia. This garbage is bleeding all over the Mudcat. Sorry, Susan, but we might as well keep it in one place. I don't want to say any more on Martin's thread since he has enough troubles of his own.

daylia doesn't understand that most people don't automatically step into a squabble with total strangers and layer on pejorative remarks about their person, their personal life, their friends and family, their private habits, and their educational and professional background.

She thinks she speaks for all of Mudcat when she levels her nasty bogus charges--and she doesn't recognize stunned silence as disapproval, she looks at it as acceptance of her nonsense. Silence seems to encourage her behavior.

She has a novel approach to détente--she will say one semi-flattering thing about someone then follow it with nine nasty, baseless accusations. In a manner as calculated as any Middle Eastern preemptive assault, she gets as nasty as she possibly can before hurridly insisting on peace. You can guess the outcome.

daylia, let 'er rip. I'm sure you can spout off for hours now about my intellectual posturing and inferior genetic tendencies.

signed--Stilly River Sage, who has taken all of the nonsense she's going to. (Don't worry, Susan, I'm finished with this thread. I will resume my policy, practiced for the last couple of years since the last blowup, of avoiding any threads that daylia is actively posting to.)