>>There's nothing safer than knowing how it's going to end...

>Somehow I find that statement confusingly cryptic. Several scenarios seem possible.

You're right, Dr. Wm. ~ mea culpa. I didn't mean it in reference to world events, but rather with regard to one-on-one relationships. Nothin' like datin' a bad boy, because you always know the primrose path it's going to take.