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Post by: Sandwich on February 12, 2003, 11:32:10 am: Need Another Seven Astronauts

:D
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Post by: Redfang on February 12, 2003, 11:34:08 am: Riight.

Hey, Sandwich. :p
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Post by: Sandwich on February 12, 2003, 11:35:34 am: Yo
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Post by: Fury on February 12, 2003, 11:36:26 am: Old. And not even funny.
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Post by: Thorn on February 12, 2003, 11:36:58 am: Well...
That wasn't... bad or anything.

Nope.
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Post by: Fineus on February 12, 2003, 11:37:17 am: That is a tad cruel - but we've had worse against other people and nobody bats an eyelid, so what the hell :)
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Post by: Ulundel on February 12, 2003, 11:37:32 am: Uhuh...
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Post by: Stealth on February 12, 2003, 11:45:49 am: hehehehehe mean, but funny ;)
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Post by: Falcon X on February 12, 2003, 12:20:44 pm: Nice and insensitive.
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Post by: CP5670 on February 12, 2003, 12:20:48 pm: :D :D
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Post by: Zeronet on February 12, 2003, 12:47:48 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Falcon X
...and insensitive.
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Post by: aldo_14 on February 12, 2003, 01:21:25 pm: Mee-maw Mee-maw Mee-maw

That's the taste police coming to get you Sandwich[/i]
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Post by: Fury on February 12, 2003, 01:27:42 pm: Quote
Originally posted by aldo_14
Mee-maw Mee-maw Mee-maw

That's the taste police coming to get you Sandwich[/i]

Since when police have had tortured cats in place of sirens?
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on February 12, 2003, 01:29:59 pm: Meh, It's been around sonce the day after the event. T'was gunny at first, but not now.
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Post by: Warlock on February 12, 2003, 01:33:54 pm: Ummm actually that's been around since the CHALLENGER explosion. Along with about 300 others that would most likely fit.

But back then we at least waited a month before making jokes out of it :P

Then again ... it is sort of a tradition ... many tragities find their way into becoming humor as a means of dealing with them.
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on February 12, 2003, 01:46:53 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Warlock
Ummm actually that's been around since the CHALLENGER explosion.

Oh! I was unaware.
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Post by: Warlock on February 12, 2003, 02:06:23 pm: Heh no prob ... it was well over a decade ago ,.. hell ... I was still a little kid when I saw it ;)
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Post by: aldo_14 on February 12, 2003, 02:13:58 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Mr. Fury

Since when police have had tortured cats in place of sirens?

Budget cuts.
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Post by: JBX-Phoenix on February 12, 2003, 02:58:17 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Sandwich
Need Another Seven Astronauts

:D

That AND you are just sick.
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Post by: Vertigo1 on February 12, 2003, 04:00:59 pm: That is so NOT funny. I expected alot more out of you Sandwich. ALOT more.
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Post by: Sandwich on February 12, 2003, 05:04:47 pm: Apologies to any and all who have taken offense at this, but it's not like America's the only country who lost citizens. And it's hardly as blatant as some of those 9/11 jokes... :doubt:
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Post by: YodaSean on February 12, 2003, 05:20:19 pm: Yes, but Astronauts don't wear turbans :mad:
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Post by: Sandwich on February 12, 2003, 05:30:06 pm: Quote
Originally posted by YodaSean
Yes, but Astronauts don't wear turbans :mad:

:wtf: Neither did the 2,000+ slaughtered on 9/11, but that didn't stop any jokes about the matter, now did it?
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Post by: karajorma on February 12, 2003, 05:51:58 pm: Quote
Originally posted by YodaSean
Yes, but Astronauts don't wear turbans :mad:

Yeah but only cause they don`t make helmets big enough :D
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Post by: Knight Templar on February 12, 2003, 05:56:38 pm: *yawn*

:p
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Post by: Sesquipedalian on February 12, 2003, 06:31:15 pm: Quote
Originally posted by YodaSean
Yes, but Astronauts don't wear turbans :mad:

Congratulations. For the first time in all my tenure of HLP membership, I have found that :wtf: is woefully and utterly insufficient to express my conviction that your words, on a deep and fundamental level, make absolutely no sense. Non sequitur, mis-analogy, patent lack of historical understanding of 9/11 events, unjustified and irrelevant stereotyping, and the confused, confusing and disturbed implication that if astronauts did wear turbans this joke somehow would be funnier all combine to make this the single most :wtf:-inducing statement ever read on these forums.
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Post by: CP5670 on February 12, 2003, 07:00:47 pm: I think that was supposed to be sarcastic... :p
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Post by: JBX-Phoenix on February 12, 2003, 09:08:17 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Sandwich
Apologies to any and all who have taken offense at this, but it's not like America's the only country who lost citizens. And it's hardly as blatant as some of those 9/11 jokes... :doubt:

So you decided whether to post this or not because it's not as "blatant" "as some of those 9/11 jokes" ??

I re-iterate:

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Originally posted by JBX-Phoenix

That AND you are just sick.

And add:

...Nevermind.
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Post by: Blue Lion on February 12, 2003, 09:12:40 pm: I could care less, why can't he say it?
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Post by: Stryke 9 on February 12, 2003, 09:18:42 pm: Aww, boo-hoo, someone found a way to be offended. Get a life, seriously.

Not particularly funny- hell, the responses were funnier, but meh. If it weren't for the long training period and not being allowed to do drugs and ****, I'd be game for blasting myself into space with a few tons of high explosive, just for the experience. You get a T-shirt when you're done with it all?
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Post by: Blue Lion on February 12, 2003, 10:17:55 pm: "I didn't burn up on re-rentry and all I got was this lousy t-shirt"?

I think they got a few of them lying around.
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Post by: Stryke 9 on February 12, 2003, 10:34:13 pm: I think "I'm a Cold War relic and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt" would work better.:D
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Post by: Sesquipedalian on February 13, 2003, 01:35:08 am: Quote
Originally posted by CP5670
I think that was supposed to be sarcastic... :p
Heh. ;)
But from what I've read from this individual before, I doubt it.
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Post by: Shrike on February 13, 2003, 02:01:19 am: Quote
Originally posted by Stryke 9
I think "I'm a Cold War relic and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt" would work better.:D
That's if you used a nuke.
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Post by: Sandwich on February 13, 2003, 02:05:34 am: Quote
Originally posted by JBX-Phoenix

So you decided whether to post this or not because it's not as "blatant" "as some of those 9/11 jokes" ??

No - I found those funny as well. So did many other people around here. And it was for them that I posted this.
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on February 13, 2003, 06:48:45 am: Indeed, some were funny. Others were just sick. And it isn't as if America hasn't killed its share of innocent people in its time.
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Post by: Shrike on February 13, 2003, 02:27:08 pm: The most amusing (if you can call it that) part of this all is that in terms of human lives, this hit Isreal harder than the US. And it's an Isreali posting it. :p

So technically it should be NASA needs six additional astronauts.
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Post by: Nuclear1 on February 13, 2003, 02:30:26 pm: uh oh.... another one of these threads...

*runs before lightning bolts strike*
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Post by: elorran on February 13, 2003, 02:39:54 pm: Okay, here we go with the columbia jokes. This is being done in humour and not as an act of spike against the memory of Columbia and her crew. If you find this topic offensive then don't read it, don't say I didn't warn you.

= = = = = = =

NASA officials searching for remnants of the space shuttle columbia found the black box early this morning. While flight logs and telemtry data are still being analysed, it is believed that the cause of the crash has already been found after analysists heard the last moments of audio tranmissions recorded... "Go on, let her have a drive. What harm can it do?"

= = = = = = =

One of the searchers found a mangled penis hanging in a tree the other day, not far from a piece of columbia debris. After extensive scientific analysis, NASA officials have concluded that is must be a shuttlecock.

= = = = = = =

/end rant...
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Post by: Warlock on February 13, 2003, 03:17:58 pm: heh almost as bad as the Challenger one about the teacher :

"What were Christy (wtf her last name was)'s last words? .....

'Hey! What's THIS button for? "

:D Does bring back some fond school-age memories :lol:
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Post by: Sandwich on February 13, 2003, 04:15:13 pm: Meh - if anything, those are just plain weak. :p
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Post by: Warlock on February 13, 2003, 04:33:00 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Sandwich
Meh - if anything, those are just plain weak. :p

:P When ya think that joke of yours came out hmmmm ? :D

*Waits for the "Mine's funnier than yours" posts*
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Post by: YodaSean on February 13, 2003, 05:13:47 pm: Quote
Originally posted by CP5670
I think that was supposed to be sarcastic... :p

:yes:

If were going to make fun of astronauts that die in shuttle explosions, then I should be able to make fun of guys who were[wear] turbans and get bombed by jets :)
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Post by: elorran on February 13, 2003, 05:30:25 pm: A little sadist joke is funny at times. But one has to know not to go to far. Even then, some people will find that joke offensive. Now given the present situations regarding Islam and Muslims (ie everyone thinks Islam is something to do with terrorism, which it isn't) then it would be advisable to lay off the Islamic jokes.
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Post by: karajorma on February 13, 2003, 05:37:53 pm: Quote
Originally posted by YodaSean
If were going to make fun of astronauts that die in shuttle explosions, then I should be able to make fun of guys who were turbans and get bombed by jets :)

Well the idea of someone who was an item of clothing at one point being attacked by fighter jets is quite a funny one. :p

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Originally posted by elorran
Now given the present situations regarding Islam and Muslims (ie everyone thinks Islam is something to do with terrorism, which it isn't) then it would be advisable to lay of the Islamic jokes.

I don`t see any islamic jokes but I agree we shouldn`t make any
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Post by: Sandwich on February 13, 2003, 05:56:25 pm: Quote
Originally posted by elorran
Now given the present situations regarding Islam and Muslims (ie everyone thinks Islam is something to do with terrorism, which it isn't)

...must.....not.....comment.....
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Post by: Anaz on February 13, 2003, 06:09:18 pm: Quote
Originally posted by elorran
Okay, here we go with the columbia jokes. This is being done in humour and not as an act of spike against the memory of Columbia and her crew. If you find this topic offensive then don't read it, don't say I didn't warn you.

= = = = = = =

NASA officials searching for remnants of the space shuttle columbia found the black box early this morning. While flight logs and telemtry data are still being analysed, it is believed that the cause of the crash has already been found after analysists heard the last moments of audio tranmissions recorded... "Go on, let her have a drive. What harm can it do?"

= = = = = = =

One of the searchers found a mangled penis hanging in a tree the other day, not far from a piece of columbia debris. After extensive scientific analysis, NASA officials have concluded that is must be a shuttlecock.

= = = = = = =

/end rant...

:lol:

/me likes
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Post by: Sesquipedalian on February 13, 2003, 11:24:18 pm: Quote
Originally posted by YodaSean

:yes:

If were going to make fun of astronauts that die in shuttle explosions, then I should be able to make fun of guys who were[wear] turbans and get bombed by jets :)

sar-casm (sär'kaz uhm) n.
1. harsh or bitter derision or irony.
2. a sharply ironical taunt; sneering or
cutting remark.

"Yes, but Astronauts don't wear turbans," is not sarcasm.
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Post by: Stryke 9 on February 13, 2003, 11:26:08 pm: Aw, sure it was, and hilarious stuff, too.

Well, it kinda sorta makes sense in retrospect, at least. Still, seems two steps away from stoner humor.
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Post by: LtNarol on February 13, 2003, 11:47:37 pm: 2 things:

1. Congratulations Sandwich, I just lost all respect I held for you; some things aren't meant to be joked about. You don't see us making jokes about suicide bombings in Israel do you? Your comment was crude, harsh, and damn inappropriate.

2. Space shuttles don't have black boxes, it'd help when you're making jokes if you knew what you were talking about.
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Post by: 01010 on February 14, 2003, 12:35:08 am: Quote
Originally posted by LtNarol
2 things:

1. Congratulations Sandwich, I just lost all respect I held for you; some things aren't meant to be joked about. You don't see us making jokes about suicide bombings in Israel do you? Your comment was crude, harsh, and damn inappropriate.

2. Space shuttles don't have black boxes, it'd help when you're making jokes if you knew what you were talking about.

I read, blah blah blah.

Seriously, it was a joke. Get over it.
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Post by: Bobboau on February 14, 2003, 01:01:11 am: I realy was quite taken aback by the fact that sandwich posted this given the history, and not to mention there was an Isriali on board and a rather well liked fighter pilot he was at that
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Post by: Sandwich on February 14, 2003, 01:29:13 am: Once again...

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Originally posted by Sandwich
Apologies to any and all who have taken offense at this, but it's not like America's the only country who lost citizens. And it's hardly as blatant as some of those 9/11 jokes... :doubt:

I'm off to the army. Later.
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on February 14, 2003, 03:33:33 am: Why must some people be offended by everything?
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Post by: karajorma on February 14, 2003, 04:24:16 am: Quote
Originally posted by Sesquipedalian

sar-casm (sär'kaz uhm) n.
1. harsh or bitter derision or irony.
2. a sharply ironical taunt; sneering or
cutting remark.

"Yes, but Astronauts don't wear turbans," is not sarcasm.

It doesn`t even make sense in the context of the thread.
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Post by: Ulundel on February 14, 2003, 04:27:29 am: Quote
Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
Why must some people be offended by everything?

It's just probably in their nature.
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on February 14, 2003, 04:54:52 am: Meh, some people are purposely offended so they can complain.

I just comlpain anyway.
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Post by: CP5670 on February 14, 2003, 04:56:12 am: Quote
Why must some people be offended by everything?

A better question is, why must some people be offended by anything? :D But complaining is fun. :yes:
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Post by: Nico on February 14, 2003, 04:56:32 am: smile! smile!

geez, 12 deads in a car accident two days ago, nobody gives a damn world wide, those 7 dudes die the way they probably dreamed of, national catastrophe! those people are heroes, the 12 others are statistics. you should be happy for them and get over this.
Anyway: hello sandwich! bye sandwhich!
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Post by: CP5670 on February 14, 2003, 04:57:48 am: Actually, they are all statistics. :p :D (but national catastrophe is right, for other reasons)
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on February 14, 2003, 06:24:48 am: Well, on the same weekend as Columbia, there was a train crash in Zimbabwe (I think, it was one of those Z countries, anyway), in which a few dozen people were killed. And no-one gave a damn about that.
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Post by: Blue Lion on February 14, 2003, 06:28:11 am: Quote
Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
Well, on the same weekend as Columbia, there was a train crash in Zimbabwe (I think, it was one of those Z countries, anyway), in which a few dozen people were killed. And no-one gave a damn about that.

A Z country? Well aren't you the little geography buff
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on February 14, 2003, 06:30:59 am: Well I read it in the paper a few days ago, i know it was a country in africa, that begins with a Z, it might have been Zambia, I can't remember.
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Post by: karajorma on February 14, 2003, 10:08:33 am: Quote
Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
Well, on the same weekend as Columbia, there was a train crash in Zimbabwe (I think, it was one of those Z countries, anyway), in which a few dozen people were killed. And no-one gave a damn about that.

Don`t see anyone making jokes about it either though. And if some one chose to I`d be as mildly annoyed as I was about the columbia jokes.
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Post by: CP5670 on February 14, 2003, 10:57:34 am: There is no such thing as Zambia, only Zimbabwe, Zaire and Namibia. :p :D

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Well, on the same weekend as Columbia, there was a train crash in Zimbabwe (I think, it was one of those Z countries, anyway), in which a few dozen people were killed. And no-one gave a damn about that.

Like I said in that old thread, there are a number of other things that made this far more serious. Trained astronauts are in shorter supply than the common people, space shuttles cost more than trains, and one train crash does not stop all trains from running for a couple of years like it does with a shuttle.
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Post by: Tiara on February 14, 2003, 11:19:52 am: Quote
Originally posted by CP5670
There is no such thing as Zambia, only Zimbabwe, Zaire and Namibia. :p :D

:wtf:

(http://www.unicef.org/noteworthy/safricacrisis/images/zambia.gif)
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Post by: CP5670 on February 14, 2003, 11:35:38 am: never mind, you're right. For some reason it isn't labeled on the map I was looking at... :wtf:
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Post by: ZylonBane on February 14, 2003, 12:55:56 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
Why must some people be offended by everything?
Why must some people be incapable of recognizing that there's a huge difference between being offended by everything, and being offended by truely offensive things? (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/images/smilies/nono.gif)
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Post by: karajorma on February 14, 2003, 01:06:26 pm: Quote
Originally posted by CP5670
There is no such thing as Zambia, only Zimbabwe, Zaire and Namibia. :p :D

Pictures 5 million Zambians going round CP's house to "Have a word with him" :D
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on February 14, 2003, 02:06:00 pm: Quote
Originally posted by ZylonBane
Why must some people be incapable of recognizing that there's a huge difference between being offended by everything, and being offended by truely offensive things? (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/images/smilies/nono.gif)

Why must some people consider reasonably harmless jokes and satire to be truely offensive?
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Post by: Warlock on February 14, 2003, 02:32:24 pm: Ya know .... it might be about time to close this one b4 it gets into something nasty.
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on February 14, 2003, 02:35:30 pm: I fear you could be right.