"Jean B." > wrote in message
> Farm1 wrote:
>> "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.
> BTDT many many times.
LOL.