On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, David Silberstein wrote: # Never go off on tangents, which are lines that intersect a curve at # only 1 point and were discovered by Euclid, who lived in the 6th # Century, which was an era dominated by the Goths, who lived in what # we now know as Poland... Euclid. fl circa 300 B.C. -- Merriam-Webster OnLine # #OTOH: # # If you never go off on tangents, you keep going around in circles. Nitpicks aside, I *do* like that! -- Mark A. Mandel