Doug
If you throw a paint bomb into a crowd, don't open your eyes wide and protest innocence if it hits someone. Your "negative ninny" comment was a fairly untargeted lobb, so don't be surprised if people who got splashed think you threw it at them!
As for being annoyed... why would I be annoyed at being called a negative ninny? Actually I thought it was quite funny and passed on the compliment to Mike Asherman who I know *loves* my gentle brand of humour.
Last point: "complaining" if you want to label it that, is perfectly compatible with a positive attitude. I've seen you complain in other forums because you felt somebody was having a go at you. You negative ninny, you.
IMO this "negative ninny" is going to join FUD in the annals of history. NN. Has a nice ring to it..
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Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1