Well, GfS, I was affording you the courtesy of assuming that you were reasonably well educated until you began denigrating my educational level by apparently assuming that movie cartoons were as far as my intellectual capacity goes.

After all, one can be a cartoonist and/or enjoy movie cartoons without having been a nursery school drop-out. In fact, a well-conceived cartoon requires a fairly high degree of intelligence. In something like Wile E. Coyote's apparent inability to learn from experience and his habit of concentrating so hard on his ignoble goal that he manages repeatedly to wipe himself out is something a bit more than mere slap-stick comedy. Those of a philosophical nature may see allegories of true-to-life situations and examples of the behavior of some people with whom they are acquainted.

Rather than referring to those with whom you disagree as "parrots," and likening someone to a stopped clock that manages to be right twice a day, along with a whole lexicon of other insults and epithets you have used, if you want people to extend to you the courtesy that you feel you are due, then you need to remember that the door swings both ways.

Now, as to the as yet unanswered question I keep asking. . . ?

Don Firth