In a message dated 12/21/99 3:05:21 AM Eastern Standard Time, rbowman@indigo.ie writes: << You can imagine my disbelief as I now try to reconcile this noble apparition with the kind of velvet collared opinions that can clammily embrace: welfare shirkers; Pooh Bear (in the name of Jaysus); the solipsistic Thoreau in preference to Emerson; the greasy hucksters from Athens screaming to have their stones back. And has no compunction about sneering at that bracing administrator, Michael Harris. Scottie B. >> All I can say is this has been one pretty interesting bananafish day... and Diego's Pooh post was brilliant ;) Jim