a careful reading of my post

ashcannily, a careful reading of my post may reveal I was not responding to your orignal post, my poor benighted bottom-dweller, but rather to the second interraction between you and tsuwm

But as ever I take your point - and I think we may be saying much the same, noting the difference in cultural connotation rather than linguistic denotation. Now about that nice Mr Bush and his sequacious multitudes...

I saw a survey the other day that said 24% of USn respondents believed WMD had actually been used in that other 'gulf' recently - gag me with a turnip!