ripley's_believe_it_or_not epitome of incomprehensibility "Hey!" I went from my seat at end of the dining room table, looking up towards the kitchen entrance. "Guess who finished their phonetics assignment two whole days early!" The brother, coming in with a plate full of pizza and carrots and mayo to dip them in: "Oh, hey! Great" - geniunely, indeed with a yay-our-team-just-got-a-point intonation. The father, poking his head through, "Do they still have Ripley's Believe It or Not?" To borrow from Burgess, with a little PIE thrown in: this sarcasm, if I may call it such, does not become you, O *phter. 220402 what's it to you? who go blather from