<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2627" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>"Yes, I am an olde Geezer.<G> And a cranky one at = times.<G>  However, what the heck does "his beak is stumpf" mean? I probably = don't want to know, but I've never heard that phrase."</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2>In Olde Dog terminology it = means "his bark is worse than his bite".</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2>Woof. <G....rrrrr....></FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial = size=2></FONT></STRONG><BR></DIV><?/smaller><?/fontfamily></BODY></HTML= >