SW: >>I've removed this quote from its context not because I want to pick on >>Lawrence but because I wanted to draw attention to the wonderful typo at the >>end. I'll leave it to others with more imagination and linguistic ability to >>create a suitable rap on the thoughts that it creates.<< I too was curious about which portion of which prophet I might be entitled to. Had never seen the expression "extract the michael" -- thanks for that. Mike Geary Memphis ----- Original Message ----- From: Simon Ward To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 3:02 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Eyeing Iran "There was a time when the oil at least partially did belong to us (our oil companies) or to Britain or one or two others because we developed the wells, drilling equipment, processing plants, etc and were entitled to a portion of the prophets." With no intention of extracting the michael for a typo since I'm prone to them myself. Simon