I think I'll start signing off each night by sending you a 'Thot for the
evening'.  If nothing else, it'll remind you that even during the lull
periods on the list, *I'm* still here!  But hopefully it will at least bring
a smile at the end of the day, and dreaming about Pooh and friends will
always make a nights sleep good (provided there aren't heffalumps trying to
steal your hunny!)

So here's this evening's thot-

You would think that working for a company called Shared Communications
Services, that we would be good at communicating.  Well, good as we may be
at helping *others* to communicate, sometimes amongst ourselves I'm reminded
of the following, from "IN WHICH Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest and
Piglet Has a Bath":

        "The best way," said Rabbit, "would be this.  The best way would be
to steal Baby Roo and hide him, and then when kanga says, 'Where's Baby
Roo?' we say, 'Aha!'"
        "Aha!" said Pooh, practicing.  "Aha! Aha!...Of course," he went on,
"we could say 'Aha!' even if we hadn't stolen Baby Roo."
        "Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain."
        "I know," said Pooh humbly.
        "We say 'Aha!' so that Kanga knows that we know where Baby Roo is.
'Aha!' means 'We'll tell you where Baby Roo is, if you promise to go away
from the Forest and never come back.' Now don't talk while I think."
        Pooh went into a corner and tried saying 'Aha!' in that sort of
voice.  Sometimes it seemed to him that it did mean what Rabbit said, and
sometimes it seemed to him that it didn't.  "I suppose it's just practice,"
he thought.  "I wonder if Kanga will have to practice too so as to
understand it."

        Maybe the next time someone says something totally incomprehensible
to you at work, you should try looking at them sorta *that way* and say "Aha!"
Let us all know what happens if you do!

CR