Gary

>My, we are touchy aren't we! At the time I was lurking, no, I had nothing better to do after a somewhat lengthy stint of heavy coding. Its called a break and its my prerogative to lurk if I want to. After all, better to lurk than waste bandwidth.

Yeah I am touchy. And you don't think that I "had nothing better to do after a somewhat lengthy stint of heavy coding. Its called a break and its my prerogative"? And if your reference to wasting bandwidth means the starting of this thread, why are you continuing a branch of it and so elliciting my further wastage thereof. Furthermore, I often contribute help and solutions, as far as I am able, so I wouldn't say I was exactly a drain on resources here.

>>At least I constructed something that, if you look at the similar threads, engenders some lively, amusing and maybe interesting debate.
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>In your opinion.

It's not a matter of opinion - just look at the threads. You may think they're not but those who join in apparently don't.

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>>You don't need to take part or to read it but, if you do take part, a contribution would be more appreciated.
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>I did contribute - I asked whether you had nothing better to do?

Not worth an argument

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>>But out.
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>I think you are looking for an Americanism here - "Butt Out", note the double "T".

I think you are noticing a typo here. Have you never seen them before on the UT? I don't need to "look for" the Americanism, as I have it; it's just spelt wrongly. If it's spelling mistakes you're looking for there are plenty liberally scattered throughout the UT for you to "lurk" on. I thought YOUR gripe was the existence of this thread, not the spelling therein.

OK, I could give you an equivalent universally English response butttt the interface won't allow it.

I don't like flame wars on a thread but you really hacked me off here.