Wolfy, flap her wattles at you? Naw, she will slap you upside the head with them! Didn't the Oracle warn you about ancient TSC? Didn't I? Those wattles are so long and strong that she can fly with them! Ah, now you have done it. You have distracted her from watching the ferrets partying in that old Scottish castle. Oh well, maybe you'd better borrow the Oracle's hover wagon in case you need to out-fly her. No, wait, something in Scotland has taken her mind off you. I can't really make out what it is, though. I guess time will tell. in the FML: >WHY shouldn't each individual be 'allowed' to write in the way THEY are >comfortable [without criticism from others]?..and the way that the words >flow out of them..or the way their heart wants to? It may not be that. My impression from what was written was that they might be teasing each other. Heck, there might be people who really think that someone called TSC is really going to slap Wolfy upside the head. Why? Because they don't know the background (a joking communal fantasy story). The same might be going on between those two folks. I don't know. Maybe you know much more about it than I. Sometimes, also, it can be very hard to read some posts. This is especially true if a post is written in babytalk or is a run-on sentence, and those statements are even more true if a reader has bad eyesight (You'd be amazed at how much guessing goes on sometimes in that situation.) or a bit of dyslexia ( Ditto.) or both then that difficulty becomes even more true. I don't know what was in that post in question (and think it might have been written on a day with an FML I didn't get), but I know that there have been a few times when I wanted to follow certain conversations but simply could not do so unless the author wrote them in a form that was more understandable. If something like that is going on then such a request is a statement of appreciation. It says, "I WANT to know what you wrote, but I have trouble with it in this fashion.". A person wouldn't feel that way if there wasn't a desire to read the posts or if the person figured the author would not understand the need. I just figured that perhaps not everyone is aware that sometimes there is no criticism but instead an honest desire to share in a conversation -- a feeling which comes from appreciation, not from derision. One of the very best write-ups on aspects of the liver is the section on liver results interpretation in http://www.afip.org/ferrets/Clin_Path/ClinPath.html [Posted in FML issue 4357]