PS: >>I was tired of it quite early, not because of the implications of our >>resident stute, but because of the folksy, adverbial usage of "real" to mean >>"really". God I hate that!<< What you suffer from, and I'm sure Andy will back me up in this, is functional fixedness. No doubt due to bad parenting. There's no cure. I'm sorry for you. And everyone else. Mike Geary world weary in Memphis ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Stone To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 3:47 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Mike -- Not Real Astute On 5/8/07, Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I'm really getting tired of this Subject line: "Mike -- Not Real Astute". Doubtless, you could have guessed that. p.s.