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Stanley Barthfarkle Stanley Barthfarkle is offline
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Stanley, your news reader is seriously *BROKEN*. It should have stripped
everything including and after Gene's sig seperator (an absolutely
standard '-- ' on a line of its own)from the quoted text. If it fails to
do so, its up to you to delete it by hand! (Or google for OE Quotefix)
--

Grady-White Gulfstream, out of Oak Island, NC.



This must have been posted by someone who I have blocked, since I never saw
this reply until someone else bumped it.

Nothing is *BROKEN*... I formatted the subject line like that on purpose.
'Twas an attempt at humor.


Main Entry: hu·mor
Pronunciation: 'hyü-m&r, 'yü-
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English humour, from Anglo-French umor, umour, from
Medieval Latin & Latin; Medieval Latin humor, from Latin humor, umor
moisture; akin to Old Norse vokr damp, Latin humEre to be moist, and perhaps
to Greek hygros wet
1 a : a normal functioning bodily semifluid or fluid (as the blood or lymph)
b : a secretion (as a hormone) that is an excitant of activity
2 a in medieval physiology : a fluid or juice of an animal or plant;
specifically : one of the four fluids entering into the constitution of the
body and determining by their relative proportions a person's health and
temperament b : characteristic or habitual disposition or bent : TEMPERAMENT
of cheerful humor c : an often temporary state of mind imposed especially
by circumstances was in no humor to listen d : a sudden, unpredictable, or
unreasoning inclination : WHIM the uncertain humors of nature
3 a : that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly
incongruous b : the mental faculty of discovering, expressing, or
appreciating the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous c : something that is or
is designed to be comical or amusing
synonym see WIT
- out of humor : out of sorts