Actually, Al ~~ I make it a policy & a principle to avoid expletives far more than almost anyone else on this forum. Must have been peculiarly incensed, but hard now, even after so short an interval, to recall quite why. I do occasionally suffer from pain from a bit of inflammation left by an otherwise long-cured gastric ulcer I suffered from 30 years ago, which always has a baleful effect on my irritability-factor: maybe that was bugging me. Sorry all...

Re blondes: my wife Emma is a blonde, and my first wife Valerie was of lightish complexion; funny really because my ideal physical type has always been slender very dark brunettes ~~ Audrey Hepburn or Sophia Loren or Jane Russell rather than Marilyn Monroe. Neither Thatcher nor Ruth Ellis [whom I met but once, after all] had any physical attraction for me.

~M~