I found out the other night that Sarin gas has nothing on chile vinegar in boiling water. I was making some artichokes for a snack and was boiling them in water very heavily laced with habanero vinegar and garlic. About 5 minutes after they started my wife and I were in coughing fits. Noses running, eye watering, the whole 9 yards. It lasted long after the artichokes were done. It was so strong that the memory gave me a little cough just now. It was almost as bad as being downwind of a grill that I had thrown dried chiles on. The ensuing smoke was unbearable. George J. Goslowsky Monk of the TCS Holder of Fire Run to light from shadow, Sun gives me no rest Promise offered in the east, broken in the west