ok, all you new people, see how my antagonists play their little game? one by one, they come, all calling me names and insulting me, and throwing mud on me, until eventually it all cumulates in a mess... you tire of the thread, get sick of the drama, and soon stop reading. pretty clever, hunh? meanwhile, because i had to do a response to each of these twits, they manage to make me look like the one who flooded your box. that's why wolves operate in packs... and they think you're too stupid to notice... too stupid to notice their blatant hypocrisy by calling me "mean" and "disrespectful", when _they_ are the parties guilty of that. they call me "a troll", as if i were the one who was responsible for them sending in their nasty messages... pretty slick, eh? they accuse me of "going off-topic", but they seem to think the topic here is bashing bowerbird. quietly ask yourself how many of them have a history of adding value here? it's all very amusing, don't you think so? and now you have seen it for yourself, so you too know just how they play their little game... -bowerbird p.s. for the winner of this iteration, i pick walter hoist. his accusation that i'm suffering from a "persecution complex" was simply brilliant. after all, why would i feel "persecuted" just because all of these people are calling me names? must be something wrong with me... the other finalist, finishing in second, was lee passey, with the good old classic "crazy uncle" charge. it's well-used, sure, but that's because you can't dispute it without becoming "the crazy uncle", so it's fool-proof! and yes, i _have_ stopped beating my wife. finally. at least i think i've stopped... maybe. for a while, anyway. well, i'm trying... last night was just an accident.