<HTML>In a message dated 10/31/02 4:28:14 PM Central Standar= d Time, hufford1@airmail.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT= : 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Sorry, you are absolutely right= .  I momentarily lost my self-discipline and took the bait.  One, of course, should always disregard postings from a certain person, and,  particularly, regardles= s of content whether good or bad, as the posting is indeed only bait and one only becomes a foil for a disturbed emotionality in showing a response or giving evidence of any kind, direct or indirect,  of having= taken notice of the posting.   Sorry again. </BLOCKQUOTE> Very good!  You spelled everything right!  Now, it seems to me tha= t I recall reading one of the very nastiest, hateful and most condescending = posts I've ever read, written by you and directed at me.  You felt you = had the right and were in the right to say what you did (complete with bad g= rammar, misspelled words and not enough imagination to come up with the righ= t words for what you thought was a clever acronym).  Where did that get= you?  Where did it get you today to talk about which is correct, "whip= pen" or "wippen" and not even bother to spell the rest of it correctly?&nbsp= ; And what the hell does the Académie Française have to do with anything= being discussed here? I had a perfectly fine day today, don't take any medicines and never have.&n= bsp; It was a crisp, cool but sunny and pleasant day here today. I tuned and= serviced my usual 4 pianos, had time to sit down to lunch and read your idi= ocy, practice my music and make it to a 4:15  PM audition for a coveted= part in an oratorio.  The competition for that has been going on for 2= months now.  It's in the final rounds and I'm still in the running.&nb= sp; And you guys are telling *me* to get a life?  Look at what you do a= nd what you say.  The kinds of things you guys come up with to try to t= aunt and intimidate me are about 9th grade level and flunking out. Now for the evening's agenda, the part which makes life worth living.  = It won't include trying to establish my place in the pecking order on "Piano= tech". "Sideways Well":  the pit Ed Foote dug for himself to wallow in the day= he knowingly published false data for the EBVT on Pianotech. Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin <A HREF="http://www.billbremmer.com/">Click here: -=w w w . b i l l b r = e m m e r . c o m =-</A> <= BR> </HTML>