As the most vehement protestor to the method used by Ed Lipinski to convey his message and freely admitting to being a slow witted solidly on the ground illterate farm boy, I want to be among the first to compliment him for the posts in yesterday's Digest with their positive solutions to the heat problem, and thought provoking non-flamable arguments. I appreciate his humor and envy his knowledge. Even I, slow witted low flying head that I am, had discerned the message in the previous post. It wasn't the message or even the messenger I was so disturbed with. It was the hateful tone. I still disagree as to whether I am contributing to the devolution or at least lack of evolution by adopting ferrets born at Marshall Farms, but I can appreciate the sincerity of Ed's beliefs. I truly respect that and am overjoyed to see the tone of the most recent posts. It seems that, while my message was misunderstood by many due to my lack of literary skill, Ed Lipinski got the message. Danke "shayne". (I, being the slow witted one, failed to remember the correct spelling of the Deutsch word I have phonetically spelled.) I hope Mr. Lipinski will accept my sincere thanks for making this a friendlier more educational list today than we both created a few days ago. If my tasteless post helped to promulgate this result, then, perhaps, Glenn was correct when stating "the end justifies the means". I'm just not comfortable with the technique and publicly vow to not lower myself into the mud again. Hopefully, we can keep the discussion and exchange of ideas on this middle level where all can participate. As for me, I find that when I point out flaws with my index finger, there are three times the number of fingers pointed at me. And once again, thanks to Bill Gruber for the levelheaded (even while shaking) moderation. John Gordon, the slow-witted low-flying but happily loved by formerly homeless ferrets farm boy. [Posted in FML issue 2384]