Sum Off - If you've ever followed any of our N-Land (now Cafe-N) threads, there is a long running joke about SNDY's nose being as long as a "ghiraula". Please spare me the need to join her for rhinoplasty with such generous comments. You are pretty polished and deferential yourself I must say. As for politically correct, I sense our interpretations and understanding of that phrase might be different because to me it implies a certain fear of expressing thoughts freely but perhaps you have a different interpretation. Thanks for clarifying where you are coming from with the story. It's always great to know what a writer was thinking when writing. I am sure it will come as no surprise to you that writers and readers often look at the same story and characters and events conveyed therein very differently. When a reader has read someone a couple of times, they tend to take up much more from a story than what the writer wants them to because they see the events in the bigger context of the writer. Perhaps they shouldn't be and your point is well taken. "When I saw how frequently some people contribute in Sajha, I could not help but ask myself: Who are these people borrowing time from? " LOL!! I have stopped asking that question since I found myself on that list Have a good one.