Margaret wrote: > come on, Pat, of course you're homo sapiens. Besides, you're an Idahooan > by birth. Ma was unlucky enough not to be born in Texas. She was smart enough to move there as a bride. Father's either a 3rd or 4th generation native (right, Mother?), and I was born in the Great State, too (thanks, Mother!). And I gotta state for the record that when it comes to all things good that make a Texan, Mother is in the top 10. I know no finer Texan. Catharine, who would offer as one essential visual definition of a Texan: a Colt .45 hanging on the wall underneath a hand-lettered sign that says, "We don't call 911" <bg>