speaking of "aka, please" i would also like a thesaurus for christmas so i can learn new words to use when being politte You can often find a thesaurus in tandem with a dictionary. That way you'll know when you spell polite wrong... actually, i was setting myself up for "speaking of politte, let's sign tanaka because he's going to be even better than cliff" follow-up, but then a co-worker came in and i had to look busy and talk to her about work. it was terrible. That is terrible. Terrible news indeed. Maybe a coffee break is in order. EVEN BETTER i'm going to go hide in the bathroom for a while. see you guys later! You can't post from the crapper?