Seconded. 

Who pissed in your cornflakes?

I have no idea where this came from, but as an unbiased, uninvolved outsider, this "discussion" rapidly devolved into something I would, IN MY OPINION, classify as nasty, obnoxious, insulting, arrogant, rude, brow-beating, etc etc...I could go on and on with adjectives, but frankly this gave me flashbacks to the great flamewars of Usenet circa 1991. Yes I go back that far. Inappropriate to this forum...makes me think that you work for, or have a dear friend who works for the PMA and that your sacred cow was made into cheesesteaks here. 

I would suggest knocking it off, or taking it offline. You do not have to subject the few remaining readers to your vitriol. This is supposed to be a nice, mellow, informal discussion place...a refuge from the nasty real world. In my most humble opinion that is. 

And, if you want to be obnoxious about proper rules of etiquette...you completely failed in not clipping the incredibly long thread. It is very rude to quote a whole series of replies when only replying to the last bit. Those of us who get the digest have to scroll and scroll and scroll through hundreds of lines of double spaced junk. That is very inconsiderate and probably against the rules of this forum. So before you start instructing others in correct behaviors and instructions to live by your rules, learn to follow the rules of common courtesy yourself. 

Oh for the days of the unix newsreader where you could hit control-K and all messages in a thread would instantly be deleted....

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