Ah the lariat...or the hoolihan...which, when misheard through the gaps and scratches came through as "hooligan"--something (I ignorantly presumed) to be very difficult to "throw".

The Mudcat, in all its glory, is much like Joe F's music class--we all put up posts when we have something useful to contribute, and by the time we're finished, we've all got something bigger than the sum of its parts.

If it weren't for the gaps and scratches, and all our interpretations of them, there would be no Mudcat as we know it...

Just another $0.02...fwiw.

V