In a message dated 8/20/2004 9:39:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time, atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: She said her father, who was a cop, found it and took it away from her. I didn't believe her, but what could I do? Confront her father? I was a sap and the whole world knew it. Mr. Big Stuff, who do you think you are? I wish I could say I'd learned something in the intervening years. See? Predation. That you haven't learned something from the intervening years of more Predation and your increased susceptibility to Gravity -- should be no surprise. That's why they are gripes after all. __________ "Rast ich, so rost ich." - German proverb about the gripe of Gravity ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html