-=> Quoting James Bradley to Nancy Backus on 06-16-08 06:19 <=-

 JB>>> (-| Did you ever visit the old curmudgeon Gaylen's Telnet site?
 JB>>> Talk about "trust" issues... 
 NB>>> You lost me there.  :)
 JB>> On his opening screen, there are three qualifications to being a
 JB>> curmudgeon. One is, "Never trust a fart." I can't
recall the others,
 JB>> but that one never left the brain.
 NB>> Ah.  You say that's on the telnet side of things?  It doesn't appear
 NB>> to be there any more, so that's why I didn't know what you were talking
 NB>> about...  Could be it's on the web side (where I've never been)?  ;)
 JB> Now you have me wondering. Thinking about the equipment I was using,
 JB> it must have been a http page.

Gaylen has jumped in and confirmed that it USED to be on the web side.
And, stated his three laws...  ;)

 NB>> I can see why that might have made an impression... 
 JB> It might as well read, "Never trust an (old) fart."

Be that as it may, I think we are all approaching "old-fart-hood".  :) 

 JB>>> ... I live in my own little world. Everybody knows me there.
 NB>>> Sounds cozy... 
 JB>> Cozy, *and* delusional! 
 NB>> True enough.  ;)
 JB> Hey... Wait a minute! 

What, I can't agree with you??  

 JB> ... Man is alone, who feels the need to label plants as flowers or
 JB> weeds. 

A weed is a plant that grows where someone thinks it shouldn't... :)  Of
course, there's a lot of plants commonly known as weeds that I would
classify as flowers...    Dandelions, for one... :)

And then there's the animal kingdom, labeled as pests or beneficial...

ttyl      neb

... Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.