>> > > This is a beautful theory, developed and promoted by Bord Failte [Irish > Tourist Board] in the early 1960s, and later used to obtain millions in > grants from the European Community to further wall-building as an indigeous > art form deserving protection. In truth, they were attempts, stretching back > as far as the mesolithic era, to keep the English out. And here was I thinking they were causeways, built in accordance with the judgement of Finn O'Feck in 352, following a lawsuit brought by the Little People on the grounds that the Giants' Causeway amounted to size discrimination. David Ritchie, Portland, Oregon------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html