On 13 Nov 2007, at 03:34, Nigel Rantor wrote: [snip] > surely that was a typo since we're talking NLP, you must have meant > "never light pigeons", which I think is sage advice. > > imagine the mess they'd make, flying about, setting other things on > fire before they finally succumb and become ex-pigeons. [snip] That's why you nail them down first :-) Adrian