I am recently on medication that will hopefully reduce some of my leg pain from lumbar spinal stenosis and thus increase my "mobility".
One of the side effects warned about is that the medication might cause "confusion".
I had reported to me orthopedist that I had not experienced any such.
I think I may need to retract that report.
If you have problems with French humor, let me tell you that I get into trouble every day with British type jokes. The funny thing is that my kids, now grown have always told me, Dad, you're not the least bit funny" yet now I heard my older son speak before a large packed crowd and he was so charming and all his jokes were so "British" and everyone rolled with laughter...and I felt vindicated.
Mind you, I was ignorant and unsophisticated until they graduated college and started to pay their own bills and then, one by one, they discovered that I had, in the interim, learned a lot and matured substantially!
Look at the differences in meaning when I'd refer to you as "Kerr" in the USA or the U.K., that is recognized as simply that we know you. In Germany, however, omitting the salutation, Mr. is apparently disrespectful! So humor is always a risky matter, folk can inadvertently get offended. But Doug, consider this - if you can put up with me, Nicolas is a much finer gentleman, I assure you. He's not rude, just French! The "je m'en flu" attitude and shrug, "Pfff!" does not occur so commonly in any other language, AFAIK!
Asher
Think about it, Doug, if you per I were talking about Republicans and science, then orthogonality of their crania-spinal axes would be fair game as only that explains the inability of reason to travel in their neuronal pathways.
