• spaghettidba (6/24/2013)


    Paul, your answers could be collected in a book and it would be an absolute best-seller!

    Awesome, as usual.

    Absolutely. Paul, you don't often post on ssc these days, but when you do it's a real blockbuster of a learning opportunity for us mere mortals. Thank you!

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