I've always considered neckties as phallic symbols --flaccid-phallic symbols. They've always seemed to me to be a statement over the gate to our curture that reads: "Abandon all hope of fun, ye who enter here." Yeah, but then I come from a working class background. One of six kids. And though the mere sight of a female no longer elicits an erection on my part, still, I've never needed Viagra -- though I'd like to try it and see if I can go at it for four hours! Woooweee, that'd be worth a trip to the emergency room. Nevertheless, there's aways a nonetheless that irregardless of the irregardlessness of the regardless still stands as something or other-- ah, fuck it. Mike Geary Memphis