Herb Shriner was, of course, a real person and Hoosier commedian -- had I really wanted to jazz up the story I would have called him Herb Spicer.

>You really are loosening up these days - is it medication?

I suppose what it is, actually, is the steady degeneration, drib by drab, of my execrable wwftd master personna. soon I will be nothing but a shadow of my former sylph.
-ron (who's a degenerate?!) obvious