On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:36:01 -0500, with neither quill nor qualm,
"David R. Birch" quickly quoth:

Winston wrote:
Larry Jaques asked the magic question:

Couldn't they make up their minds between maximum and average? sigh
PSI sure has had some competition. We also have psi, psig, and psia.
What would Nick Danger, Third Eye, say about this brouhaha?

"My nostrils flared at the scent of his perfume: Pyramid Patchouli.
There was only one joker in L.A. sensitive enough to wear *that*
scent...and I had to find out who he was!"

--Winston

"Rocky Rococo, at your cervix!"

"Thanks, half pint, you just saved me a lot of investigative work..."

"Maybe yes, maybe no. Do you know what THIS is?"

"That's...a pickle!"

And, later:
"The fire's in your eyes, Lieutenant Bradshaw."

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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
-- Harold Bloom, O Magazine, April 2003