I'll bet 'extricate' wishes he'd never started this!
I'd like to bet that everyone else wishes that he hadn't started this!
Ask a simple question to PPruners and you get "rocket science answers"... rocket science it aint; but there are many PPruners who wish to go on a "points scoring" trip! However, it would be great if the "point scorers" could write in "correct" grammatical English that everyone can understand.