<DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> Some Quakers, just like some non-Quakers, tend to be oppressive people, but they can be stood up to with a little courage. After all, what can oppressive Quakes do to you -- beat you up some night in a dark alley? In practice, Quakers over the centuries have developed various ways of dealing with this sort of "oppression" in suitably decorous, "Friendly" ways. Never you fear. * * ** Nixon was from a Quaker background . . . . In his Nightmares of Eminent Persons (a marvelous work), Bertarnd Russell creates the following nightmare for Stalin. He has lost WWIII, and has been placed by the victorious allies in the custody of burly Quakers who deny him vodka and tobacco,a nd reprive him mildly for his volcanic rants. "Now, now, Mr. Stalin, thretening to have people shot is not very nice." jks Jon Johanning // jjohanning@igc.org ______________________________ From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world; Else none at all in aught proves excellent. (Love's Labour's Lost) ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><hr SIZE=1> Do you Yahoo!? Free <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/tag/*http://calendar.yahoo.com">online calendar</a> with sync to Outlook(TM).