Next morning.

Yes, perhaps, looking back by the clear light of day, I did allow myself to get a bit hyperbolically annoyed. No, Jim, it wasn't drink or medication ~~ I have drunk no alcohol whatever for 12 years and take no pills or medicines. It was just that Mr McCormick & I are allergic to one another. Years ago, I objected to his having OPd a thread on the royal wedding with the statement that the very thought of it made him want to vomit; he took exception to my expressing the view that he was deficient in manners for saying so; and we have been unable to abide one another since. Whatever I post, however vanilla, he comes back with IMO an over-truculent overreaction (see eg his response to my first post above); I like a fool rise to the provocation; and Way O and away we go...

I hereby undertake to bring this sequence to a complete standstill by making a belated new year resolution to read no post with his name atop. I have no prescriptive rights over him, of course; but would just suggest he might be well advised to adopt a similar policy with regard to mine.

New Year Greetings to all

~Michael~