> So I'm sitting here, and I'm thinking to myself, "I have absolutely no thoughts running through my head at this time

I get this feeling quite a lot too - usually it precedes the decision to watch a title from my ever growing collection of Kung Fu movies.

> I would like to know why Florida is even allowed to have a town called St. Petersburg, and why Ohio is allowed to have a town called Chicago.

Another place I've added to my "Big Wish List of Places to go" is Montana, simply because there is a town called Glasgow. I think it'd be worth the air fares and accomodation costs just to walk around town telling people "I'm from Glasgow".

> Who was the guy that thought "left" and "right" were good directional terms? When ISN'T there confusion caused by someone saying, "So I go left, right?" and being answered >with "Right"?

It's actually an ancient convention thought up by driving instructors to liven up otherwise boring lessons by having their pupils slew across busy lanes of traffic.

>water gets contaminated if you leave it in a sealed container overnight. Ever notice that? Screw the cap on the bottle tight -- makes no difference.

Use a glass bottle and pass your water through a good quality filter first.

Although I always worry about charcoal filters - I mean, isn't a microporous surface just going to give bacteria and other beasties a nice little breeding ground where they can all congregate and, you know, get it on?

Bourne