Just a little side note for the amusement and amazement of all and sundry:

The advent of the internet was a boon for the high school kid who had been assigned a term paper and who simply didn't want to bother with it, and besides, it was due the following morning, so he looks something up on the internet, prints it off, and turns it in.

This didn't last all that long, however. High school teachers and college professors soon learned that if they smelled a rat (the student simply didn't have the kind of writing skills to produce a paper like that, for example), they could cut-and-paste a sample sentence from the paper, paste it into the Google search box, and hey, presto! It would take them right to the web site where the student cribbed it.

The same little bit of high-tech detective work often produces fascinating results with certain posts right here on Mudcat.

For example, did you know that Sawzaw's post just above is pure cut-and-paste from the Tea Party's web site?

Here. Check it for yourself.    http://teaparty.org/article.php?id=967

Don Firth