>>And yes, it was in a big closure, but there were lots of other closures inside of that same closure, so the variable would've lived as long as the longest-lived sister closure, which is probably the entire life of the page.

Cool. I wasn't being argumentative,,,I'm a LONG time C/C++/C# guy and short time javascript guy, so I just want to learn. :)  I didn't like the way it was written anyway.