how did this thread go from crass solicitation to everyone doing interpretations of someone else's post? (hi to jackie, wow, geoff/keiva, and a special shout out to musick)

[aside to G/K: goldibear has now posted twice here, with about an 18 mo. interregnum -- for my part I was just trying to discourage the commercial trend of these 8)
this has, after all, been a very spam-free zone!]