The Nr Fairy "I think I started the "Shawn is a Demi-God" sect."
Thank goodness it was you. Some had said a "Queen" (is Canada still a part of the motherland?) annoited him while others insisted it was nothing less than the combined 'forces of evil'.
I have even received one private EM claiming that this is a Father, Son and Holy Ghost affair with Lappos, Coyle and Zuckerman in their rightful places. Come on, Lu as the Holy Ghost? Perhaps there was no orderly one-to-one association implied and Lu is the Father. And where does that leave Frank Robinson-father of the R series aircraft or Dean Borgman-reported father of the Apache who built a factory on the remains of the Anazasi Native American burial grounds?
Another private EM (not Hilico) claimed I had not earned the right to even utter the name of Nick Lappos and compared me to an infidele defiler who should drown in a lake of my own vomit (I found that one enduring).
To all who have written privately to me I say come forward and make a stand in the light of your peers! I am reminded, for no particular reason other than I have a moment or two on my hands, of a story that Mad Dog Mike Benthall told me in Borneo about the Gurka. He told me that the wiry little Gurka's were so tough that in World War II when a Gurka unit was first asked to volunteer for paratroop service, their troubled sergeant asked the British advisor if the planes could drop the men from a lower height to lessen the risk of injuries. The Britisher then hastily explained that each man would have a parachute. Mad Dog Mike, as he was fond of repeatedly reminding me, commanded a Gurka unit. He was also the British Officer who reportedly promoted Idi Amin to Sergeant and thereby was inadvertantly responsible for the whole Entebbe thing a few years later. Mad Dog Mike, when in the cups, which was often, was fond of quoting one Lady Astor who said "I believe one should not interfere with two consenting adults in the act of intercourse--as long as it doesn't frighten the horses". He found this terribly amusing in a British sort of way, although it rarely, if ever, applied to the subject of discussion. What were we discussing?