<HTML><BODY STYLE="font:10pt verdana; border:none;"><DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">Poor Ted is forced by my pitiless abuse to write:</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">"You have a knack for expressing yourself as though you always have the last word ... and your opponents will wither before your scathing wit and vast erudition.<BR>I surrender!"</FONT></FONT></DIV> <P><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">Don't surrender. I will not accept your white flag; I will not allow you to go down with your ship I am a complete and utter jackass. I do always have to have the last word. I think it's because I'm an oldest child. I've got issues. Just ask my sisters -- or, rather, what's left of them after 30-odd years of enduring the exact same treatment at my hands that you yourself have just received.</FONT></FONT></P> <P><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">What can I say, Ted? Other than, hey, want a ride to the Chomsky lecture at WSU?! Because I'm going! Wouldn't miss it.</FONT></FONT></P> <P><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">(You're a good guy, a good sport, and a damned smart cookie. Now, don't kick me, I'll kick myself.)</FONT></FONT></P> <P><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment</FONT></FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Arial></FONT><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"> </P> <DIV><BR><BR></FONT> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML><br clear=all><hr>Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : <a href='http://explorer.msn.com'>http://explorer.msn.com</a><br></p>