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Christ you're a damned good comedian uncle! I just can't stop laughing when I'm reading your stuff!
Allow me to allow you into a secret: I'm an elderly gent, retired and yes, I do spend quite a bit of time in front of the 'puter. You see, I'm an avid reader and very interested -as I always was- in politics, history, literature, linguistics and a whole lot of other topics; so I spend my time reading a great many newspapers around the world, listen to a great deal of radio, (ah, the beauty of the internet!) books, magazines and journals of all sorts, go to the gym, get down and dirty with my vegies, do quite a bit of cooking, though less so now that the boys are all "growed up" as they used to say in Texas and I enter the hallowed halls of HC every now and then so that I can squeeze just that little bit more intellectual exercise into my day.

If I correct your little spelling mistakes, I do so not so as to insult you but to simply let you know what is correct; and I'm fully aware that I, too, make a great many of them myself. Now what you do with my grammatical info is, obviously, up to you. From what I can see, you take absolutely no notice! At the back of the class you go and Mrs At will come around with her whip later...

I used to be a proud member of many unions and, though some shop stewarts were a little over the top and others were just too timid, the organisation itself was absolutely and vitally important, if we were to see anything that resembled fairness and balance in the various workplaces I was employed. Workers -blue and white collar alike- generally don't like unfair folk, whether they're bosses of a workplace or a union. They can do nothing about the boss of the workplace but they can certainly turf out their union boss -or they can try and "educate" both!

If I have any guiding principle at all it is that a human's worth is not measured by the depth of his or her wallet, but by the depth of his or her heart... in other words, by how much he or she is a flesh-and-blood member of a society, instead of a statistic in an economy.