>Speaking of relatives and meanings of words - one of the most confusing phrases which I banged my head on while learning English was the widespread phenomenon of cousinectomia. Consider the sentence "he had a cousin twice removed". The only conclusion I came to is that the first attempt of surgical removal of the poor relative was unsuccessful.
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>Which may well appear to be the case with VFP now :)

LOL! I am also still learning the vicissitudes (I know that one from my Spanish education) of the English language, and in fact I don't know what a "cousin twice removed" is, which makes your comment extra funny!?