> a certain cretinous yahoo tell me to "f**k off" without retaliating.

What a perfect example of paralipsis! Well, actually I suggested that you fuck off – I never cower behind the pathetic cloak of bowdlerised orthography. But I count it a pleasure to be so labelled by you. Since I am patently not a cretin nor a yahoo (and could probably out-dance you on the head of almost any literary pin you chose to name) it confirms your own true colours. Every time I wade though one of your spiels I am reminded of that antanaclastic gem from Benjamin Franklin: “Your argument is sound... all sound.”