bygone_blatherskites I am going to find out. Would "sucking up*" to bygone_blatherskites constitute some weird, electronic-age form of ancestor_worship? 061010 ... * "Sucking_up" is mid-North American-English slang for excessive flattery bestowed upon a target to gain affection and/or favors. 061011 ... syringe Not really. 061011 ... thorn I think kind of, but not really. Also it would be more like ancestor veneration than worship. 061011 ... acrs gone_blatherskites 080604 ... u24 gone_blatherites 080604 ... meta meta 090507 ... jane feel free to suck up to me. you may win a prize! 090507 what's it to you? who go blather from