Annette Curtain Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This is starting to sound like the ol' "Tips for > life/ Top tips thread" > > (which I myself quite liked) By failing to avoid the tautology you have wasted (thereby demonstrably un-scrimping) a perfectly good word which, in these bleak times, is not quite the spirit. May I suggest missing out the odd verb in future posts to make up for it? *I am typing this with one finger and using one eye thus making a substantial saving.