Julie: First, yer a smartass.   :-D    Second, there won't be any need next time 'round.    When trying to come up with an appropriate hosting gift for BT, I asked a mutual friend who'd stayed with him what he needed, and she told me that his pillows were shite.    And since he's a guy, I guessed (correctly, as it turned out) that he wouldn't own any more pillowcases than he had pillows, and it would be rude to give an "incomplete" gift.    I just wish I'd washed 'em before I'd left home and saved myself the aggro! (Hmm, what will I take him if I go back??) J, Robert is Tom's brother, and he's an absolute *doll*.    I didn't get to spend a lot of time with him, but I confess I developed a bit of a crush.    ;-) And you're right, "d)" is a wholly ungentlemanly response, which is why I keep calling bulls**t when he attempts to get out of answering questions by claiming to be one!