In a message dated 12/3/2003 11:15:26 AM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: Ah shucks, Ralph! I surely didn't mean to brag about our pastoral setting and its many televised attractions. And I cetainly didn't intend to bring out all that alkali battery based bitterness, that you usually keep so well hidden from view. Yeah, well, perhaps that hemi-demi-semi smidgen of crankiness seeps out just the teensiest little bit. I forgive you. Go and sing no more. Ralph