Ah, yes, Will. Sorry to have misexpressed: I did appreciate your attitude, and took up your phrase, with acknowledgment, purely as a useful one to reinforce the point. Rereading my post, I can see that I didn't make that sufficiently clear.

I know many people find Hoffnung funny. Just leaves me cold, I fear: but what humour appeals to any individual is notoriously a most personally inexplicable phenomenon.

~M~