[Don Joe]

"Why? What would they do? Certainly you aren't emplying they would do something to prove what we all know, that at heart they are thugs, living off the actually earned profits of others, are you."

My, my, my, aren't we the snotty one today, Hankie. Then again, you did select an appropriate handle, so one should not be too surprised when you act out your monicker.

Ah, but I digress, Snot-rag (that is the appropriately casual dimunitive for "handkerchief", I presume?)

To bring things back into focus, I would suspect that your florid fantasy life notwithstanding, the farmers in question would be more apt to hand you a shovel, a pail of seeds, and point you in the direction of a one-acre plot of dirt with your name on it, as they smiled and said, "here ya go, smart-ass city-boy -- now go feed yerself and show us all how it's done."

[Hank Kerchief]

the farmers in question would be more apt to hand you a shovel, a pail of seeds, and point you in the direction of a one-acre plot of dirt with your name on it, as they smiled and said, "here ya go, smart-ass city-boy -- now go feed yerself and show us all how it's done

Ah, you think I'm a "city-boy?"

Oh well, presumption knows no bounds.

Thank you for that wonderful demonstration of reason and decency. We certainly ought to be supporting farmers if your chatacterization is typical of them all. Just the kind of people we need a lot more of.

Hank