"sf" > wrote in message "Farm1" >
> wrote:

>> You do realise that you've piqued my curiosity yet again and now I'm
>> going
>> to have to start another hunt to satisfy my curiosity? Last night's hunt
>> for info on Leonidas and the Hot Gates. Boned up on that so now I need
>> >> something new to learn about so it may as well be salad cream and it's
>> origins.
>>
> Heh. Sorry... OTOH, the internet is a wonderful place.

It surely is. It has one huge drwback though and that is the tiem it takes.
Once I start using it, I find myself, hours later, a million gazillion miles
from where I started and I've found out all sorts of weird and wonderful
things that I never knew I really needed to know.