<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; = -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 13, 2005, = at 5:46 PM, Ron Nossaman wrote:</DIV><BR = class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P = style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" = size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Common sense is an oxymoron. = <snip> The numbers are there so we don't HAVE to remember which = way the count goes. We can figure it out from the placement of the = numbers and hitch pattern (if necessary).</FONT></P> = </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Ok, so maybe not common sense, but = everything else about our culture puts us in the mindset of things = naturally progressing from left to right. When one sees a 15 stamped = on the plate, for example, it is completely natural to be in the mindset = that that unison and the wires to the right of that stamp are 15 and = those to the left of that stamp are size 15 1/2 (or whatever the next = size stamp reads), but that is not the case at = all.</DIV><DIV>Jeff</DIV></BODY></HTML>=