GP-- Purpose? uh....[thinking].... boundless curiosity? Wanting to flesh out an emerging suspicion that I don't know everything? hm.... wanting to be a better friend to my new UK friends by understanding the world a bit better? Wanting to make a few things simpler for US/UK conversation around Mudcat? Stuff like that. The person-to-person view of a complex world. I much prefer that to research, but research is OK too if that's what folks want to contribute.

And Scrump-- GREAT post.

~S~