In a message dated 12/20/2000 11:21:47 AM Eastern Standard Time, kstagg@harbornet.com writes:
<< Dale, Thanks for a well reasoned argument in favor of being nice. I'd suggest, though, that you may have meant genteel, gentle or, perhaps, gentil. ....................
OTOH, gentile has connotations of "the tribe" and we might be considered one of those. >>
Ha! Sorry everyone... What a goof.. And I was NOT trying to be funny!
Dale Brown