Well, I've spent too much of my life working with Americans to ever say 'fag' for cigarette. But I do occasionally baffle them by saying 'oily' instead. (Oily = oily rag = fag = cigarette). We have a good one in scotland which some of my English friends don't know - 'gregs' for spectacles. (Gregory Pecks = specs). But in my misspent hippie youth I was sometimes asked by the local thugs "Haw! Ur yoo a poof, pal?". Usually just before they set about me with sticks and boots, unless I was quick enough (and I always was). NVITWS, Nice one! Now, are you going to reveal your secret identity or do we have to guess? mac