>> I feel marriage is getting an unfairly bad press here! > > Hmmm, > perhaps "ditto" too, > but need to reflect > on the particulars ... > Perhaps those of us who are happily enough married don't have much to say? And, like everyone, enjoy the whinging anyway, when it's couched in a sardonic witty manner... Doug Douglas Barbour Department of English University of Alberta Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5 (h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521 http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm People, people - ten dead ducks' feathers on beer can litter . . . Winter will change all that Lorine Niedecker