No banjo on my knee, though. I may check in tonite--my room supposedly has broadband.

Yeah, but in Alabama, that means an all-female music group! Ba-dum-ching.

Thanks, I'll be here all week.

(Full disclosure: I was born in Alabama.)

But you are still a dufus!

Ah, well . . . nobody's perfect.

Is that the only gig the Dixie Chicks can get nowadays?

Scott,
why is it when we southerners make fun of ourselves we get called a dufus. And when northerners, and that's pronounced YANG KEY, its hysterically funny, and sophisticated. Or is it historically??

Streve, it isn't when Southerners make fun of themselves that they get called a dufus -- it's when they address a question to the wrong commenter.

McGehee,

I would agree with your analysis, except that I don't recall addressing a question to any commenter.

Actually, I was obliquely calling Streve a dufus because he addressed the question to you instead of to "Joe Schmoe."

Maybe I need to dial down the subtlety a few points around here...

Oddly enough, my comment WAS to Scott.

I even said "...we southerners...", meaning Scott and Myself. He's from Alabama, I am from North Carolina, via Florida and Kentucky and Virginia, at various times.

That would qualify us both to be southerners, and Scott being he and I being me, qualifies us as, WE.

But thanks, McGehee, for the help on what you thought I meant, as southerners we do occasionally need someone to tell us what we mean.

How subtle is that.