"He recommends a variety of strategies in Part Four of the book. Now why don't you adopt the one I suggested to you."

Because.....I don't *want* to. I'm perfectly happy with who I am, you're the one who isn't.

If I become you, who will become me? As the saying kinda goes...without the owls. :0)

"Adopt a strategy of not posting bollocks to message boards - you will find it a great help. And let me try and explain that so it comes through loud and clear. It does not mean not posting on message boards. It means not posting bollocks on message boards.
That's all."

Tell me, Dave...WHY, when I apparently write such "bollocks" do you bother to read it? Not only that, but WHY do you bother to read every single word of it, not just on this board, but on the BBC too?

Gotcha! ;0)

Ronald Davis was treated terribly by those who supposedly thought themselves better than him. He's developed a strategy to make letters sit still. I don't have that problem. The letters sit still, I don't. :0) Neither does my mind..it leaps around all over the place, and I love that it does. I'm happy being me. Really happy....and when I have the music playing in my earphones, well, that sends me 'somewhere else'...("if ONLY!" you all shriek) LOL

Just think on this though, not once has The Peasant told The Professors that she may feel that they write '.........s'.....so who has the better manners?

All I'm complaining about is the floodgates of academia that pour out, often stifling 'ordinary' conversation and putting the music into a very **serious** place.

I'm whizzing back to watch those Gorgeous Oysters again now...and bring a smile back to my face.. ;0)