>Hi Trey,
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>I suggested -1000 from the beginning. Don't know who is Mel Brooks, but let's remember Rip Van Vinkle (?), for example :)
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Sorry, my eyes ain't what they used to be. I missed the negative...

You don't know who Mel Brooks is !?!?! <g> "Blazing Saddles", "Young Frankenstein" - these ring a bell?
He had a character called the "2000 year old man" - sort of like Rip Van Winkle, but he didn't sleep through it all <g>

>This should work, unless somebody would invent a time machine and negative age becomes normal :)
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>BTW, do you read 'The door in summer' R. Hainlain (I definitely misspelled his last name and perhaps the name of novel, since I read it in Russian)? This was one of my favorite...

No I haven't - it's been recommended by a couple other people, so I should probably read it.