> pronouced mav-rick

heh, thanks for that, of which I no inkling til then! Milo's right of course, I am named after a cunning thief (oh, sorry, archetypal American entrepeneur!) of the prairie who deemed any unmarked calves as his as soon as he applied the maverick brand. In my work I am also much involved with brands of a different kind. Where Milo may err slightly is that since my mother's name is Miriam and thinks that some of her family *may have included some lost members of the wandering tribe, there may indeed be a portion of my mongrel blood so derived. All speculation that I do not allow to inform my daily life, but there anyway. The maverick brand suits my spelling style anyway...