Mike,

>> Throw WHAT back?
>The fish that nibbled on the "bait" (it was't actually intended as bait, but sometimes you get lucky). It's old newsgroup terminology for such statements as, "FoxPro sucks" in a VFP newgroup, in which case the fish would simply jump in the boat. :-)

OIC. In the example above, the fish would jump in the boat AND bite your head off.