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DeltAlum,
Thank you again for kind words and encouragement.
If I might ask, where did you pick up Brit style spelling?
I picked up the habit of Brit spelling when I was in school there. I was told that I spoke American, not English, and that American was a closely related but seperate language, not a common language with English.
Needless to say I had to mouth off and replied, "Funny, I thought we settled all that at Yorktown". Wow, I'm glad they no longer use the cane in the UK. My Dad, who also did part of high school in the UK tells me that he picked up a healthy respect for the phrase "Six of the best". His answer to caning was to wait for sports day and invite the master (teacher) who did the caning to meet him in a boxing fund raiser. As he said, after caning one shook hands with the applier to show there were no hard feelings between gentlemen, however, this did not preclude an opportunity to raise funds for the school's charity fund. He later told me that once he realized that the teacher was hopeless at boxing but gutsy enough to go into the ring with him Dad needed to take it easy on the teacher and make it look like the match was an even draw. Afterwards the teacher told him that he was concerned about my Dad's motive but when he saw how Dad handled the match he realized that Dad had made his point and joined in the spirit of things by his kind gesture to the teacher. All in all, Dad said it was a good learning experience and he did not go looking for opportunities to receive another "six of the best".
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