In a message dated 12/06/00 6:53:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, Chad Gard, CTS KB9WXQ writes: << The threat of TMV is just way too high >> Here we go again folks, Lord Byron and I use tobacco spit on our chiles, others (who oughtta get TMJ) live in dread of TMV. Oh well, it's almost a new year, perhaps it's time for a new botulism warning, 7000 loons just died of it in Vermont. Isn't everyone in Vermont a loon? Whooda thought that loons were making garlic olive oil and leaving it in a jar at room temperature? How do they turn on the stove with those webby little feet? Well, the fact is that loons don't make garlic oil unless they've been infected with Tobacco Mosaic Virus by flying over a bar that allows smoking. So, it begins again, only this time it's two birds with one turd. Botch-u-lee, botch-u-la, botch-u-la, botch-u-la, la, la, la, la, la Botch-u-lee, etc. Gareth the ChileKnight