some of these messages (especially noxious aashish's first message) kinda remind me of an OLD ITALIAN IMMIGRANT'S TALE i read somewhere and which, I believe, goes something like this: ----------------- "YOU KNOW, I CAME TO AMERICA BECAUSE I HEARD THAT ITS STREETS WERE PAVED WITH GOLD. BUT WHEN I ARRIVED HERE, I LEARNT THREE THINGS. NOT ONLY WERE ITS STREETS NOT PAVED WITH GOLD, HELL THERE WERE NO PAVED STREETS AT ALL. WHAT'S MORE, I WAS THE ONE SUPPOSED TO PAVE 'EM! ----------------- p.s. if anybody knows of a land or country, where pre- cooked turkeys and wild boars run amuck with knives and forks still stuck on 'em, pls drop me a note. karmapa