Rex:
>Is this a personal fight?  Are you guys trying to relive some long ago
>struggle in
>another place?

I don't think so. Some boisterous debate doesn't kill anything, anymore
than a string bean does.

>Why not take it private?

Why not delete it?

>Kirt, the above words convey, at least to me, a Jeff Rossian tone.  They
>would be
>crap said by him and they are crap when said by you.

Fair enough. Crap is in the eye of the beholder, doncha think? ;)

>Why not devote some of that boiling energy to helping Alan understand that
>we eat
>"string beans" in the immature stage (raw or cooked)?  It's becoming more
>and more
>apparent that he is thinking of the mature dry bean and trying to warn us
>against
>eating them raw, which no one ever has.   :)

You can. If you care to...

Cheers,
Kirt

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