< bg > Okay, point well taken. But as I said, those of us who tune in every day have heard the discussion a 1000 times, have pretty much become comfortable with our own take on it, and have moved on.

But there are lot of sporadic lurkers who really don't know what's going on in the "community" who stop in periodically with a technical question. A little consciousness raising there is probably not such a bad thing. Not the FUD part, just the part suggesting the world is changing and learning new stuff is a good thing and a good investment.

Remember how excited your niece was the first time she saw "Shrek"

(My wife, by they way, is now subject to restraining order from Russell Crowe's people as they find watching Gladiator over 200 times to be getting into the realm of creepy ..._


>Hello Charles
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>When my niece wants to watch "Shrek" for the 50th time in a row, I feel a sort of dismay.
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>I used to like Shrek and found some parts hilarious, but now I have learned to "fear" it, presumably for the same reason you say people fear the Prophesies announced here with old chestnuts like "do not keep all your eggs in one basket". Does anybody *really* believe we haven't heard that before?
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>While I can see why you might deduce that it is the "Ogre" in Shrek that makes people afraid, please accept that it is actually the desperation we fear as the "New Release!" banner is displayed, but we know it is going to be the same protracted story again, over, and over, and over. Oh, the horror, the horror.
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>I guess there are some here who, like my niece, find the repetition comforting, and yes, there are probably a few who are afraid of the ogre... but there are also a lot of us for whom even "Bambi" would be a relief!
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>Regards
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>JR