~Never ever be afraid to speak your mind about something. ~Everyone makes mistakes, that is how we, (hopefully), learn to become wiser and better people. ~Big people jokes HAVE been around forever and DO conitinue to be, if you don't beieve this, you are only fooling yourself. ~Most of the time people in general cannot please other people in general no matter what they do or how they do it. There are far too many personalities andor types of flavor to humanity, within humour, within mannerisms, whithin rules, within ALL kinds of ways of thinking. Case in point... this scenario. Diane and I worked hard and late to solve thisthese problems, since there was a GENERAL consensus that the names were inappropriate and the obj. file issue was at hand; but still, we managed to somehow get "spanked" for it in various subtle ways by some after the fact; go figure?? I try to learn from this, but sometimes, I confess, it is difficult. People in general can be VERY cruel. I can tell you stories of some less than favorable times in my own life that had nothing to do with "FAT", but "HURT" just the same, perhaps even more. Like when I went through a bad stage in my very young youth when I had a bad bout of acne and I got into a fight almost each and every day with mean cruel kids that insisted on using my face as a humerous target!! It is VERY enraging for example to have someone come up to you with a cream donut and squeeze it all over you in the cafeteria laughing about how it reminds them of your face, or be constantly reminded by all the Eddie Haskells of school how your face is the shining example of Eddie Kruger or some other creepy stars that reign supreme in horror flicks!! It's no wonder I had broken teeth in an early age, from fighting all the jerks around me. Needless to say, when I was a youth, for several years I had NO humour and I was one miserable son of a bitch and thank goodness for "time" and "healing" and "learning" and "listening" and "aging" because even ugliness can be an enlightening exerience once the "ugly" skin is shed and a new beginning is at hand. And if I go back even further in time, I will NEVER, ever forget coming to this fair and prosperous land. I was but a mere wee tyke, never knew english much, wore funny clothes, came from a land that had been taken over and been ransacked by a former enemy to this country. And even though I had NOTHING to do with any of this and neither did my parents, (they were way too young), because we were strangers who didn't speak fluent and wore different clothes and had a slightly different culture behind us, we were ridiculed, immensly, for what seemed like an eternity. Even when you do NOT understand the spoken words actions can speak the loudest, and even when you are a mere tyke, ridicule can make you "see" and "learn" rather quickly, and as time went on and I DID manage to aquire the language required to survive and began to wear the appropriate clothing to "fit in" with society, and even though I managed to better myself to the point where no one would ever again dare to ever make that racial wartime slur at me again, I took it upon myself to NOT let the same happen to others that I would come to witness going through the same scenario. Something to remember, humans in the raw are cruel and heartless by nature, and it is only the laws of the land and common sense teaching of manners that keeps them at bay. And the MORE we can all laugh at each time someone spits out pain in racial slurs and tells Elephant Man jokes, the more sane and healthy a person we are. It means we have reached that point in our life where we know we are above this and we won't let stuff like this bother us anymore. But this happens only after you have experienced all the GOOD things life and the good people have to offer; these make you forget the setbacks of the past. One sees the world in a brighter and a more "lighter" way when one has the experience of bitter dissallusion under their belt. I look back on old times and laugh today, something I never ever thought I could do back then, when all I wanted to do was destroy the folks that were teasing me. But sometimes one must endure setbacks to appreciate even better times ahead. Time heals and mentalities change and broken teeth, well they are quickly fixed by dentists. The scars of learning stay forever, and are actually a treasure at times like this when we need to compare and understand how one may feel about other situations. Now, please don't make me tell you more, hehehe ;-) ~3D