[The Thin Man]

I appreciate you comments FTH and am pleased that you and Mud have high standards for bribes. Though, I have to admit to being disturbed by your approval of daisyscarlett's shameless behavior. :-)

[FreeTheHostages]

Well, it's just that it was a thematic bribe.

It's as if there were a book called "The Etiquette of Bribes" and Daisy had read it and realized that the best bribes should match the decor of the general thread. I thought it was a very tasteful bribe.

One thing I like about Mudboy Slim is that he's a real, rock-hard conservative. When I made a concededly tasteless joke that, in terms of bribes, anything goes, it's sorta like the Clinton White House, he signaled his sincere distaste for this comparison and declared he had lost the stomach for accepting bribes. Some things just *aren't* funny, and there I went too far.