[mburbank]

Mr. adventure, that was excellent. Charlottes Web is one of my all time favorite books, and I may have mentioned at some point that I feel it has the best opening line in the history of Western literature. In an incident of serendipity, I was just corresponding wiith a good friend who works in the UAE as an assistant principle, and she was bemoaning the fact that in preperation for the next sumester she has to go through all new textbooks and censor any reference to pigs. I wrote back asking how the hell the poor kids were supposed to read Charlottes Web. "Some Jew" Indeed.

And Karen, the simple fact that you wrote your post disrobbed is present enough for a man of my advanced years.