AL>I just treat the stats as extra messages from RS's Dog...
 CP> RS has a dog , perhaps it is a cat that he has 'convinced' 
 CP> it is a dog . Or Perhaps he has just decided he has a dog 
 CP> therefore a dog he has . 

The dog fetchs the mail and does the other things that are hard for a brain
in a jar to do.

AL>You can't cope with AvTech? What is the youth of today coming 
AL>to :-)
 CP> We just did not have acces to the mind altering drugs that 
 CP> some people seem to have taken before embarking on the 
 CP> AvTech Trail.

Nah, Bob was born that way ;-)

 CP> After all following a conversation , that goes from broken
 CP> VCR/Toaster/Door Bell to Racism to cats/pidgeons , without 
 CP> any transition tends to place a strain on my grip on 
 CP> reality.

That's where you went wrong. Just go with the flow. Eventually it becomes
second nature. Besides a typical evening at Elfwhere is much like AVTech,
conversations about all sorts of things with nary a thought as to a
topic...
 
 CP> Combine this with the effects of the OZ_HUMOR Echo 
 CP> (ref: Halo/sweet/innocent) 
 
Oy! That's my Wife you're talking about there... :-)

 CP> and you get the feeling that sanity is optional.

It always has been...

 CP> It seems that I have begun to ramble in self-defence mode 
 CP> therefore I am now going to take the first little white 
 CP> pill I can find and head out to work and pretend I know 
 CP> what I am doing.

Everybosy else does most of the time...

...Alex.
(Pagan & Proud)

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