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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 |