apologies for picking up on the one thing that is (probably) not germane to the issue - but what does "demain" mean ?!?! Is it an Irish expression ?!

Yelena - as always these posts in the "anything that is not about SQL" forum just crack me up!

One - because they ALWAYS deviate...

Give a dog a bad name and hang him!

way of the insurance world unfortunately!

Funny you should say that timfle - the last insurance company I bought my insurance from actually asked me about my educational qualifications - when I asked why it mattered,...

Mike - you don't say which 2 get deleted - would it be the min or max comment_id or the min or max date_entered that would stay and the others...

I'm not sure why I feel compelled to keep defending what the original post meant - I guess it must be the innate Gandhian in me as well as my...

Disambiguate - what a mouthful! Since it's almost the end of the day for me - I shall just go forth and cogitate (or maybe I mean ruminate) on this...

Yelena - my gripe is only with those whose first language is English - I know for a fact that many of the people I have grievances with, have been...

sameer - I'll let fallenangel answer the questions directly addressed to her.

However, I would like to understand what it is you're trying to tell me - your tone and words seem to indicate...

and...those apostrophes that sneak in everywhere where they're not supposed to...misused in contractions and abused in plurals...plural's

that is a good rant - I'll grant you the rant - the rant I will grant...

However, I have also known many that've come...

hey - since we're ranting and I've exercised (near) admirable restraint for all these months could I piggyback my rants onto the ones already mentioned...

1) your and you're

2) it's and its

3) where...

Paul - you may be "cross threading" as well - what original post...the one by sean - by steve...?!?!?!?!?!

GPF^... - stop being so militant - where's the guy who was prescribing "group hugs" a while ago...bring him back!!!

ps:If GPF^ is a "Christian"...I'll die laughing all the way to...

- this post should now be renamed - "the uproar about the uproar.."

what did the Romans do...feed them to the hungry lions ?!?!