In a message dated 7/21/05 9:34:01 AM, felder@knology.net writes:

<< Come on. Do we really need to be referring to a listmember with a
legitimate problem in such a way? In third person at all? Or using
words that Joy Hecht isn't allowed to use? >>

Come on.  It's just a term of endearment.  I would consider anyone who has a
bitched oil drain plug hole in a Vanagon and who, apparently, is not used to
dealing with such calamities, a poor bastard.  I also have enough compassion
for him not to send him down a path to nowhere.

I've had my mouth washed out by the best of them, with Oxydol no less
(thanks, Mom), and I still believe in free speech, so, please don't saddle me with
the limitations placed on Joy's lexicon.

Enough of this sidebar -- how do you repair the hole?

George