Big John - Yeah, well, I was thoroughly puzzled about those same titles at first myself...being a total newcomer to Internet talk when I first logged onto Mudcat a mere 2 or 3 years ago...

Amos - Lovely use of words! Let me add that they are guttersnipes, cutpurses, and cadwalladers* of the lowest ilk, not fit wipe one's boots upon.

*For the derivation of this word, look to Walt Kelly's "Pogo". Albert Alligator was known to use it now and then to describe individuals of poor character and low morals.

- LH