yuk yuk –hey, thanks walt –coming from you, well, y’know –paint-spattered neophyte “Gee, grazie MILLE, Michael Angelo!”

LotM –my fave is “See? I TOLD you I was sick!” (actual, it is said, somewere or nuther)

oh, –th spacing –it’s just that i’ve seen ‘em that way –i guess cause the rhyme is 1,2,5 vs 3,4 –and too, when told aloud, good tellers often speed up delivery on 3,4 relative to more deliberate pace on 1,2,5.

anyhoo, it’s probably unseemly to be playing with Mary Jo’s name –but good lard amighty –the tv coverage of teddy kennedy’s funeral has just been a ghastly horror show of preening microphone spotlit ‘keepers of the eternal flame’ –grandiose potemkin show for us potatosmeared dirt farmers –blah –