>>>>>>>LOL
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Thanks Alan. You knew that would be up my street :-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I think she was very patient; I would have "gifted" him right where I could leverage him.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>And for the record, the 'English Major' is a quasi-regular feature on the show. Keillor is an English major and every so often he wants to remind us that English majors are sexy and desirable. The spots are usually a hoot.
>>>>>
>>>>>Surely you mean "semi-regular" or does the sketch only have some resemblance, usually by possession of certain attributes, to being regular? :-)
>>>>>
>>>>>...
>>>>
>>>>I'm not sure. What would half regular mean? To me quasi-regular means that it appears without any predictable regularity, but does, in fact, appear from time to time.
>>>>
>>>>Would semi-regular mean once every two shows?
>>>
>>>I'm using it in the other sense: as in "to some extent, partly or incompletely" - semi-civilized; semi-independent
>>>
>>>These don't mean half civilised or half independent; how could one quantify that?
>>>
>>>Why don't we settle for "frequent"?
>>>
>>>I'm only entering into this in the spirit of the English major, you understand. You know me - I'd never be pedantic about usage of English :-)
>>
>>[Horrified expression]... The thought would never have entered my mind! ;)
>
>Like many of its brothers. :-)

BTW, noticed your signature lines. Did you ever read Humphrey Lyttelton's obituary written by himself? I guess it would be an autoobituary? I have it somewhere in a book on jazz writings. If you haven't read it, it's a real corker. He can't even get his name right. I'll see if I can find it.