Perhaps -- I think you're reading more into my comment than was necessarily there. :) (Given that you stripped the entire qualifying couple of paragraphs out...) I have no problem with your comment, myself, or others' comments for the most part. I was only implying that I think we should try not to offend most people too much. Of course it won't always work, but such is life. In other words, Dave and Sridhar can say whatever they like one to the other, all in jest, and it can be understood as such. No problem. It's not so good when the target of the jest, or even a third party -- JCW in this case -- can misunderstand that jest to be disrespect. Anyway, I, for one, wouldn't want somebody making inflatable likenesses of myself... ;) I think that's a bit too general. Certainly there's nothing you could possibly say that wouldn't offend _somebody_. Hmm -- Ok. Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '