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From: trelford@trelford.Eng.Sun.COM (the Great Trelford Pinkerton - AFU Man of the Year)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: AFU person of the year (c'est moi).
Date: 8 Jan 1993 18:10:36 GMT
Organization: Programming on Snickers
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: trelford
Keywords: I hate brussel sprouts those spiteful green balls from hell

I am indeed honored to accept the award of "AFU Man of the Year",
proposed by two Terries, (3, if you include me), and a Nolan.

I will indeed celebrate this honor in the customary way, by buying
drinks all round (and salsa for Terry Chan) at the next AFUniverse.

I was going to nominate two other possibilities for this office:

    1.  Obik, the frozen neolithic homosexual

 and

    2.  Stein, poor Cynthia Kandolf's surviving spouse.
        The microwave accident was most unfortunate, although
        of course Cindy was partly to blame for believing anything
        in the "Antichrist's Cookbook".  No cards please, by request.

but I decided "nah" if they're going to offer it to me, I'll grab it.

ObUL: Elvis dyed his hair black.  He was a natural blond

ObUL2: Lucy Arnez dyed her hair red.  She was a natural brunette.

--
The great Trelford Pinkerton, AFU man of the year.
Boss of the toothbrush-butt gang.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: datepper@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Aaron Tepper)
Subject: Re: Celestial Seasonings
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 02:40:46 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.012055.15914@pony.Ingres.COM>, bobm@Ingres.COM (Bob
McQueer) writes:

>What I want to know is what they have against putting strings on their
>teabags ...
>
>Tired of steeping my fingers as well as my Red Zinger.

To address your second point, take a *spoon* and lift the teabag out.

As for your first sentence, it's time for yet another

ObUL: The cotton strings on teabags are bleached with a toxic chemical
that leaches into your tea in minute quantities.

        Well, yeah, but what about the teabags, hmmm...?

David A. "It'sssssss SLEEPYTIME!" Tepper
-- 
Did you really think I spoke for anyone else? Boy, you're gullible!
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: cep@taligent.com (Christophe Pettus)
Subject: Re: The shifty-eyed shifty-shaped Odo
Organization: Taligent, a little subsidiary of two really big companies.
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:35:17 GMT

In article <lks17nINNk2g@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Peter van der Linden) writes:
>How did the Cardassians carry Odo aboard disguised as a sportsbag
>without noticing his weight?   Or does he shift weight as well as
>shifting shape?

He changed into both the bag and the money.

>What happened to the muscle-bound thug who threw the mace through
>Odo's head?   They arrested & hauled off the Ferengite, but not
>the monster thug.

He had diplomatic immunity.

>If Odo can shift his shape to be anything at will, why does he choose
>a normal appearance of "lizard-man on steroids"?

It feels good.

>I'll tell you something else, that "Doctor Who" was crap as well.

Any series with the line "Just once, I'd wish we'd meet an alien menace
that isn't immune to bullets" is OK in my book.
--
-- Christophe

"Bad analogy!  No biscuit!"
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: pjdm@chmeee.enet.dec.com (Peter Mayne)
Subject: Re: "Back in the African-American"
Reply-To: Peter.Mayne@cao.mts.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 05:42:37 GMT



I read in the paper the other day about Superman's resurrection.
Apparently there will be four Supermen. Three racial types are (I think) an
American, an Asian, and a Latin. The other will be an African-American.
Surely the term African would have sufficed, or is it necessary that the
African be raised in Manhattan?

Has Carl Sagan found an African-American hole yet?
Does the CIA have an African-American budget? (Maybe they do.)

PJDM
--
Peter Mayne                     | My statements, not Digital's.
Digital Equipment Corporation   |
Canberra, ACT, Australia        | "AXP!": Bill the Cat

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From: jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
Subject: Re: Sex, the Final Frontier?
Organization: Lachman Technology, Incorporated, Naperville, IL
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 14:57:24 GMT

In article <C0EyDp.A6I@ccu.umanitoba.ca> vnelson@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gerald Vernon Nelson) writes:
>
>
>>Why's this O'brien guy named Miles.  ST:TNG is consistent about
>>using only SI units, while ST:TOS was all the time using regular
>>units like feet and miles.  Shouldn't he be called "Meters
>>O'Brien".
>BZZZT.  TOS used meters and kilometers.

So, in keeping with TNG's Klingon/Federation alliance, should
O'Brian name his first child "Kellicam"?

-- 
Jonathan E. Quist                              Lachman Technology, Incorporated
jeq@i88.isc.com  '71 CL450-K4 "Gleep", DoD #094        Naperville, IL
 __       There's nothing quite like the pitter-patter of little feet,
 \/                   followed by the words "Daddy!  Yay!"
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: bml@netcom.com (Brian Leibowitz)
Subject: Re: CD Legends
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 21:40:09 GMT

>  What you can do though, is copy your CD to a casseette, Open the 
>cassette shell, take the tape out, reverse and then put the cassette 
>shell back together.  Now when you plat it it will be in reverse.  You 
>will probably have to play with the tracking to get a decent output.

This will not work for a cassette nor for a 4 track (most home models)
reel-to-reel.  The tracks are arranged so that when the tape is backwards,
you get the other side.  (Tracks 1 and 3 are right and left of one side
and tracks 2 and 4 are the other side. When you reverse the tape, track
1 is where track 4 was and 3 is where 2 was.) 
You need a professional 2 track reel-to-reel.  Then the reversed tape will
play backwards.
An alternate method is to get a reversing tape player and disable the
mechanism that moves the tape heads over when the tape direction reverses-
then the tape will play backwards.  (This can be done - I saw one at my
college station - the DJ was taking requests to be played backwards.)

brian


Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: kasprj@isaac.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak)
Subject: Re: The shifty-eyed shifty-shaped Odo
Reply-To: kasprj@rpi.edu
Organization: The Big Wedge 
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:34:36 GMT

In article <C0pGC4.M27@taligent.com>, cep@taligent.com (Christophe Pettus) writes:
|> In article <C0pGpG.32u@NeoSoft.com> arielle@NeoSoft.com (Stephanie da Silva) writes:
|> >The thing that bugged me about that scene is when he reshifted, he
|> >shifted back to his usual self.  I mean, like, really.  Let's smuggle
|> >ourselves aboard an enemy spacecraft and wander around and be as 
|> >consipicuous as possible, eh?
|> 
|> ... as well as shuttlecraft that measure their velocity in kilometers
|> per _hour_.  Ah, well, the bad technology is one of ST's pleasures.
 
 Yeah, by the twenty-fourth century you'd think they'd have switched to 
metric time already.
From: fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: No US President Ever Survived an Energy Crisis
Keywords: Duck, Martha, the cow's in the barley again!
Date: 8 Jan 93 15:25:48 GMT
Organization: Austerlitz, Gershovitz, and Carmichael

In article <106508@bu.edu> mgelman@bu.edu (Michael Gelman) writes:
>Steve Masticola (masticol@cadenza.rutgers.edu) wrote:
>: An interesting fact for y'all:
>: 
>: No U.S. president who had an energy crisis on his watch has ever made
>: it through the end of a second term.
>:
>: Bush:	Third Energy Crisis, 1990. 	Defeated for second term, 1992.
>
>Admittedly, I was kind of busy in 1990, but I think I'd recall an
>energy crisis.  What happened?
>
The Bush juggernaut ran out of gas.
-- 
Jeff Davis <davis@keats.ca.uky.edu>
From: "al sorhaindo" <al.sorhaindo@execnet.com>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: general hooker and wh
Date: 11 Jan 93 19:34:25 EST
Reply-To: "al sorhaindo" <al.sorhaindo@execnet.com>
Distribution: alt
Organization: Executive Networks Information

|> >>Tb.US Civil War Gen. Hooker is the source for a common term for streetwalkers.
|>
|> Probably F, unless you have a citation.  The Oxford English Dictionary
|> has a quotation from 1845 using the term.  Not-yet-general Hooker would

The way I heard it, General Hooker was from the revolutionary war,
which would explain it.



                              Al
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: SNAFU list
From: leb@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (BASEL, LESLIE)
Date: 9 Jan 1993 21:01 MST  
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

In article <1993Jan7.170022.2575@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes...
>figmo	fuck it, got my orders
>fujimo	fuck you jack i'm moving on
> 
>Jon "JFC ==Jesus F. Christ, or is it J. Terry Christ?" Papai
cm,if  cover me, I'm fucked
fu,ic  fuck you, I'm covered

Rodger "Hey, I just saw Joel's 'Furr Cafeteria' here in Tucson" Coghlan


Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: cep@taligent.com (Christophe Pettus)
Subject: Re: One more for the FAQ
Organization: Taligent, a little subsidiary of two really big companies.
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 21:39:01 GMT

In article <C0EEH2.G0y@math.uwaterloo.ca> alopez-o@neumann.uwaterloo.ca (Alex Lopez-Ortiz) writes:
>Add to the science section of the FAQ
>
>F. 10% of the population are homosexuals.
>   [The origin of the figure is a missaplication of a 1930's study]
>
>Recent studies say 3-5% of men are homosexuals, and about half as many 
>for women.

How do these "recent studies" define "homosexual"?
--
-- Christophe

"Bad analogy!  No biscuit!"
From: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Scearce)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The revivification of Cindy
Date: 12 Jan 1993 21:50:25 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: sector7g


In article <lkuoadINNnv7@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Peter van der Linden) writes:
> Keep sending those postcards -- they'll probably be in hospital
> for some time to come...

And in article 4854@moscom.com, de@moscom.com (David Esan) replies:
> Postcards?
>
> I heard it was business cards.

In any case, please stop sending them to Peter.  The architect failed
to take the weight of the cards into account, and the building that
Peter's office is in is sinking into the ground.

Brian "The weight of the Kandolf Papers doesn't help either" Scearce
---
Brian Scearce                                           bls@sector7g.eng.sun.com
              The above does not necessarily represent Sun policy.
                  "You can't fit the truth on a t-shirt, man."
                                 "That'd fit."
From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: AFU person of the year?
Date: 5 Jan 1993 21:46:02 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

nolan@twg.com writes:
 +
 +I vote for Trelford Pinkerton, the being who singlehandedly stirred up several
 +maelstroms of activity in the newsgroup.

I go for this.

Terry "Winner buys" Chan
--
Energy and Environment Division   | Internet:  TWChan@lbl.gov
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory      | 
Berkeley, California  USA  94720  | Yeah, right.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: Late breaking potential UL!
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 19:46:26 GMT


Speaking of the Saviour, what is His middle name?

I've heard:

1) Jesus H. Christ
2) Jesus Q. Christ
3) Jesus F***ing Christ
?

ObUL: Some people don't have middle names, and some have >1.

Jon "I put my middle name in "". " Papai
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: markm@bigfoot.sps.mot.com (Mark Monninger)
Subject: Sodium in gas tank ( was: Net's Funniest Kitchen Disasters)
Reply-To: rapw20@email.sps.mot.com
Organization: SPS
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:26:05 GMT

Maybe it's time to bring up the sugar-in-the-gas-tank-ruins-engine UL.

As I remember, several years ago one of the car magazines (Road & Track, I  
think) decided to test this. They put 5 or 10 lbs of sugar in the tank of  
a car (don't remember what make) and drove it around. The only problem  
they had was that the undissolved sugar clogged the fuel filter. They  
finally removed the tank and cut it open (carefully) and discovered that  
none of the sugar had dissolved...sugar apparently isn't soluble in  
gasoline. Anyone else remmeber this? Any comments?

Mark
From: kurtg@yang.earlham.edu (Son of Scribbler)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Amusing signs
Date: 5 Jan 93 03:30:48 GMT
Organization: Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana


My favorite signpost is in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
In Ann Arbor there is a street called Nixon. And another called Bluett. They
intersect, and the sign says "Nixon
			      Bluett"

He certainly did.

-- 
Kurt Grossman
KurtG@earlham.bitnet
KurtG@yang.earlham.edu

"I didn't know she had a mind to damage."
			- Max Schrek
			  "Batman Returns"

"Nuncy, Nuncy, very Nuncy"
			- "Ebenezeer Good"
			   The Shamans

"I'd much rather laugh with the sinners,
than cry with the saints.
The sinners are much more fun."
			- "Only the good die young"
			   Billy Joel
From: strat@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Steve Davis)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: CD Legends
Date: 6 Jan 1993 23:20:36 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

dsegard@nyx.cs.du.edu (Daniel Segard) writes:

>      Tomita's BERMUDA TRIANGLE album has some sort of data (typical modem
>squeal sound) recorded on it.  According to the album notes there is a
>message encoded and you can decode it if you are running a Tarbel
>compatible computer.  (Whatever that means.)

There are two short high-pitched squeals at 1:08 and 1:09 of "Nobody
Home" on Disc two of Pink Floyd's The Wall (Columbia C2K 36183).
Every time I hear it I have to look at my watch because it sounds just
like my watch alarm! ;-) Anyway, I wonder if these have any "hidden
meaning" or if they were caused by accident.  If I had the necessary
software, I'd look at the data at that point of the disc with my
CD-ROM drive ... :( But unfortunately the RECORD COMPANIES are opposed
to that sort of digital snooping.

Stratocaster
-- 
	   Steve Davis (I'm a student, not a spokesperson!)
      strat@cis.ksu.edu - Kansas State University - Manhattan KS
				   
Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us form ourselves. - Rush
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: trice@brtph330 (Tony Rice P885)
Subject: Re: Phone Calls at 2/3 the Speed of Light
Organization: Bell Northern Research, RTP, NC
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:07:04 GMT

Daniel Burstein (dannyb@panix.com) wrote:
: 
: The late Admiral Grace Hopper (known for being the originator of the term
: "bug" in computers) was interviewed in a puff piece on CBS's "60 minutes".

The bug you are referring to is an actually "bug", a real creapy crawly!
That bug has been preserved and can be veiwed at the base museum at the 
Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Virginia (~1.5 hrs South of DC)

: According to her, she went over to one of the maintanence shops and "I
: asked them to cut me a nanosecond" (a millionth of a second).  THey cut
: her a piece of cable approximately one meter long.

She was on the Tonight Show too and presented Johnny with "a nanosecond."
She sure was a neat lady.

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Systems Development Environment Support      Research Triangle Park, NC
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From: jberger@novell.com (John Berger)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: CD Legends
Date: 4 Jan 93 23:40:22 GMT
Organization: Novell, Inc.

In article <28207@dog.ee.lbl.gov> twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
>Subject: Re: CD Legends
>Date: 4 Jan 1993 22:53:18 GMT
>johnson@ut-emx.uucp (Karen J. Morgan) writes:
>  +
>  +It was **Paul** who was dead.  Not only could you hear them say it when you
>  +played the record backwards, but you knew it was true because he was the only
>  +one barefoot on the album cover.
>
>Paul who?

You know, the guy in "Wings".  He may have been in some other band before 
that.....
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: ashall@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Andrew S Hall)
Subject: Re: African-American-top
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 15:47:41 GMT

       I don't know about an entire book, but the use of African-American
instead of black in innappropriate circumstances is not a UL.
I saw a newspaper retraction that apologized for saying that the city's
finances were now in the African-American.

(As an aside, PC-linguists love to point out the negative connations
of English usage of the work black. I guess they missed the postive
financial connation.)

Andrew Hall
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc,talk.bizarre
From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
Subject: Re: Sex, the Final Frontier?
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 20:29:07 GMT

trsnyder@mcs.drexel.edu (Bob Snyder) writes:
>In article <1993Jan6.184028.14918@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:

>   'miles' and 'feet' used by the crew of the ncc1701 (no bloody a, b,

>metric-ignorant US public ("That ship's over a mile in length, Captain!").

As opposed to the metric-ignorant US writers, who once had Riker say that
the surface temperature of a planet was -293 C!

(Yup - 20 degrees below absolute 0.  The atomic vibrations not only stopped,
they shifted into reverse!)

-- 
Paul Tomblin, pt@compass.gvc.com
(This is not an official opinion of GeoVision Systems Inc.)
"Beebelbrox, over here!" "No, Beebelbrox over here, who you?"
"A friend." "Anybody's friend in particular, or just well disposed to people?"
From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Late breaking potential UL!
Date: 6 Jan 1993 17:40:13 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

RE
  +> >Jon "If Christ and Anti-Christ collide, energy released=mC^2" Papai

pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin) writes:

  +>Just what _is_ the mass of your average Saviour (or Anti-Saviour as the case
  +>may be), eh?
  
smb@research.att.com (Steven Bellovin) writes:

  +Depends on the religion, I guess -- some think that their Saviour [sic]
  +has a Mass instead.

Sort of a Christ's Mass would you say?  Oh Christ.


Terry "But is it critical?" Chan
--
Energy and Environment Division   | Internet:  TWChan@lbl.gov
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory      | 
Berkeley, California  USA  94720  | Yeah, right.
From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: E sharp
Keywords: temper, temper
Date: 12 Jan 93 16:58:23 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre

In article <C0pt9D.89C@rahul.net> phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson) writes:

>You're pretty close.  Almost all modern keyboard instruments use an
>artifact called "tempered tuning".  Tempered tuning, to put it simply,
>makes music written in any key sound almost in tune by making music
>in all keys a little out of tune.  For example, the base note these
>days is A4=440 Hz.  A perfect fifth above this would set E5=660 Hz;
>tempered tuning flattens that to 659.26.

See also:  Bach, J.S.  The Well Tempered Clavier
Old Johann was working at the time they were finally sorting all this out.
    Johannes ?         or not long after

        Never believe an experiment until it is confirmed by theory 
    Dave Budd, MCC, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England    (44|0)61-275-6033  
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
Subject: Re: Hello? It's Your Vending Machine.
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 02:22:24 GMT

twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
[vending machines that phone home]
>It also seemed that many installers just "tapped" their machines
>into the phone lines without informing the company.

Well, examining the wall behind the 4 or 5 vending machines at work reveals
several power cords, but no phone jacks or twisted pair connections.
Talking to the guys who refill the machine about why we always run out of
Smarties two days before they refill the machine shows that they come once a
week, and they just bring more of whatever they used the most of the
previous week, and less of whatever they used the least of the previous
week.

Very sophisticated, I'm sure.

Paul "But the water cooler is connected to a cellular modem" Tomblin


-- 
Paul Tomblin, pt@compass.gvc.com
"We sealed our federal pact without bloodshed and without exploitation of the
weak by the strong.  All it took was fairness, justice and some compromises
on both sides." - George-Etienne Cartier, Father of Confederation, 1867
From: meltsner@crd.ge.com (Kenneth J. Meltsner)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: "Back in the African-American"
Date: 6 Jan 93 18:37:38 GMT
Reply-To: meltsner@crd.ge.com
Organization: GE Research and Development Center



But there was the very real (I saw it, with my own eyes, etc.) case in
the Boston Globe where someone globally replaced "Jew" and "Jewish"
with "Arab" in a reader's letter to the editor.  Caused relatively
little trouble, actually.

I've heard the "Back in the A-A" story attributed to a San Jose
newspaper.  The Sacramento Bee is owned by the same folks, I believe,
that put out the San Jose paper.

It may be time to search through the back issues of the Columbia
Journalism Review.

Ken
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: richha@microsoft.com (Richard Harrington)
Subject: Re: Driving too slow, stopped by cops
Date: 06 Jan 93 20:58:09 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corp.
Keywords: legend
Distribution: usa


In California a couple of years ago there was a story in the news
that some guy driving a VW bug led police on a chase that lasted
for about 3 hours.  He never went faster than 30mph.  He finally
had to stop when he ran out of gas.  It turned out that the 3
hours gave enough time for most of the alcohol to filter out of his
system and the breathalyzer test failed.  The booked him for
suspicion of drunk driving.



-- I have no opinions and I hate all those who do.