> being doing it 45 years

sheeeesh, that's a *long scarf!

Dale, I'm with you in that it should be possible to spike comments with a note of politics providing the post remains centrally about the issue under discussion. It's just that we've found by bitter experience that the road to hell is paved more frequently with that particular good intention than most others! So we try to avoid the unnecessary provocation. But as the Big Knit said, the only Rule around here is there are no steenkin' rulze. Like most communities we make it up as we go along. If you felt hard bitten by the tongue of the ASp, you'll be neither first nor last...