>The last few exchanges we had reminded me of a typical winding up of the game. Equivalent to saying "Checkmate" :-)

Specially so is the pithy expression of ">>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>" which is a very rough and unrefined translation of the Mongolian warriors oath, which says "I shall not ever, under any threat or pain, under blackmail, brownmail or pinkmail, rain or hail or shine, day or night or anything in between, trim my quotes".

BTW, genglemen, nadir is not the opposite of peak. It's opposite of zenith. It's the point in the sky where the imaginary line starting from you and going through the center of the planet under your feet penetrates the invisible side of the sky.

The more liberal usage of the word to mean a local minimum does not make it mean that by itself, just that it may be, liberally, understood to have that as an, ahem, extended meaning.

BTW2... when they say on the radio "thank you so much" (for coming, for donating, for making this impossible programming (task?) possible etc etc), what do they show with their fingers? 1mm, 2mm? I mean, I may have reflexes like that guy Pavlov, and when I hear "so much", I hear it as "as much as this" and then, well, "this" should somehow be obvious. That being radio, the obviousness may be lost on us who watch radio without a screen, but I there must be some sort of a clue for those in the studio, who can see the s{pit}er.