His is an interesting tail

Nah, it won't tip the scales, Max. Practically without weight, and certainly not worth putting in the ledger.
My advice is to spare the rod, as you'd be flogging a dead seahorse on this one.

Egad, back on AWAD 5 minutes and I'm already a basket case.



[belated realisation of location]
Hi ABC, nice to meet you.
You'll get to my story, and a few other secret origins, if you click on this:
http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Board=miscellany&Number=7567
Feel free to throw in a post of your own, which will serve the purpose of resurrecting the thread...

Fisk