In a message dated 12/3/2003 11:15:26 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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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