Lox ~~ for the past year or more I have carefully avoided any use of "foul language" ~~ I have recently called you "a contemptible cad" and "a nasty little man": these are the sorts of usages I employ in this kind of controversy on this site. Do you really regard these as "foul language"? My, what an innocent. I defy you to find anywhere, since an unfortunate spat I had on another thread with Suibhne well over a year ago [since when we have much buried our differences & are on good terms], an instance of my having used anywhere on this Forum anything that even your Maiden Aunt Jemima would regard as "foul language".

You, on the other hand, in addition to your charming insults, not just to me, but, I repeat. to those of our Cat-colleagues who might be unfortunate enough to be in wheelchairs or dependent on colostomies, habitually and constantly employ all sorts of choice phraseology.

I think you should be thoroughly ashamed of yourself; but I don't for a second expect you are. And should apologise, to me & to them; but I don't for a second suppose you will.

Where, anyhow, is this post in which you choose to infer that I invited this sort of immoderate and inappropriate response from you? I can't identify it, Can you?

Or, more widely, can anyone else on this thread? Can any of you see where Lox is coming from in his insulting posts addressed so specifically to me? Because [warning ~~ "foul language", MtheGM-style, coming up] I'm dashed if I can {"That's what I am, Jeeves ~ I am positively dashed!"}

I am sorry to have drifted a bit into some personal dispute; but I assert that I didn't start it, and I really don't see why I should remain silent under the obnoxious Lox's deliberate provocations.

(Do you think "obnoxious" foul language, then, Lox. Ah diddums!...)

And I hope it keeps fine for you...

~M~