You know Marge, I am really sorry if you took my comments as "wisecracks". It definitely was not meant that way at all. I sure do not know what it was about my comments that was so offensive to you. I do know that this is not the first time that you took offense to someone correcting your spelling. Believe me it was in no way done in any effort to poke fun at you or anyone else or to be a "wisecrack" about it. I would suppose that this is why I have not heard others posting to this mail list lately that I used to love to hear from. If we have to tiptoe around others who take offense so easily and are too proud or whatever to be corrected, then I can understand why others have not posted on this list for awhile. Again, I am sorry, but I will tell you that I have NO intentions of spending my life apologizing to you for such little things as politely (or so I thought) correcting someone's spelling, not even yours. Yes I am bold but that is just how I have become because I work with too many people in the Washington D.C area who have become so snooty with me that they have no problem making jokes about rednecks as they call them that now I speak up when someone offends me.

I have already spoken to Marge about using the list for this purpose. Let there be no more comments about it! Roxanne ListHostess -----Original Message----- From: BJMullinix@aol.com [mailto:BJMullinix@aol.com] Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 10:23 PM To: LOY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LOY] Re: Ezra Loy born c1831 MO You know Marge, I am really sorry if you took my comments as "wisecracks". It definitely was not meant that way at all.