On Aug 13, 5:49*pm, Derek > wrote:
> While intrepidly exploring the bowels of USENET on Wednesday, August
> 13, 2008, rolled initiative and posted the
> following:
>
> > On Aug 13, 5:11*am, Mike Morton > wrote:
>
> <SNIP>
>
> >> You insult others for not backing themselves up, so please do so yourself.
>
> > Grow a pair of eyes and count the insults thrown at me vs ones thrown
> > back.
>
> I have gone to great effort to have a civil discussion, and have
> avoided intentional insult in response to replies I don't like.

Short memory.

> In
> fact, I've actually spent time looking up facts and figures to make
> sure that I got them right rather than pulling them out of some faded
> memory.

Confirmed.

>
> You, on the other hand, have not done likewise. So playing the
> insulted victim seems like a case of a pot not looking in the mirror
> before commenting on the kettle's sooty exterior.

Oh contrar, you've yet to answer one of my questions. I'll try one
last time. What's in the balloon after the water is allowed to strain
off?