If Norm didn't find your post objectionable, he will definitely find my laboring of the topic to be vile. As far as I can tell, Luis emailed: > >>>Luis, although your comment has given me a good mental > workout, I cannot come up with a suitable definition of the > term 'saccharine title' as used in this context. The closest > I can come is 'trite with perhaps an adolescent bent'. Am I > correct? <<< > > More like "cloyingly sentimental". Close enough. I keep forgetting to forget titles. > There's a lesson here, > beyond the "Fooling with Mother Nature" one...a parable about > imposing one's will on something that manages to stand its ground. While the plant in the image stands its ground, the plant did not. I, of course carved my initials into it with a pocket knife but I screwed up the 'G' so I just uprooted the whole thing and threw it into the river. I liberated it from its' oppressor then left it to fend for itself. Greg
