consider_the_tranquil_room smile of a dog noise is a trickle of melted icicle outside the window a clock's second hand whispering its ticks you sighing and turning the page of a novel flames of the fireplace eating the logs the day yawning 050207 ... andru235 now, just you hold on one minute, cheery canine! can you be sure it was an icicle? or was it...perhaps...a NONSENSICLE? 051114 ... oren Good point, andru, but maybe, just maybe, it_was blood dripping! Yes! Warm_blood dripping from a mutilated dog carcass! 051114 ... andru235 gee, oren, i ... sure hadn't ... considered that ... 051114 ... andru235 although i have certainly been in a room, more than once, where events that resulted in your little example would've certainly tranquilized the atmosphere YIP YIP YIP YIP YIP YIP YIP YIP YIP YIP YIP YIP "shhh, fifi" YIP YIP YIP YIP YIP YIP YIP YIP YIP YIP YIP "shhhh" YIP YIP YIP YIP YIP *blam* !!!YELP!!! "oh no! fifi!" oh, no fifi? 051114 what's it to you? who go blather from