surprised by your fellow-whooshrix Heh, heh! I try to space things like that ju-u-ust far enough apart that people forget I do it! It works on my husband, anyway: for his last birthday I gave him several "coupons" (that I'd created, straight from phone-book ads) for various sessions that a metrosexual would love, knowing that he is not the type. He thought they were real! The efforts he made to be a grateful recipient were quite comical.

I got to thinking about the use of "the" for teams in the U.S. As far as I can tell, we leave it off when mentioning only the team's location; as in, we'd say, "The Brooklyn Dodgers are playing today", but "Brooklyn did well in last week's game". I have never heard a team name used without 'the', as in Dodgers did well. [shudder]