[unspun]

A friedly reminder of our FreeRepublic.com Posting Guidelines.
(And a compensatory gesture for PH the balanced, at least somewhat, at times -- for my abrupt entrance into the Asimov thread.):
http://www.freerepublic.com/help.htm#guidelines

[the_doc]

Cool guidelines. I wish more people would follow them.

[Condorman]

Well, yeah, but don't forget, B'zugda-hiara*, we ARE in The Smokey Backroom.

In the meantime, I'm still trying my damnedest to figure out just what the hell general_re has foisted upon this thread.