I remember my mother telling me this: She said years ago one of our neighbors, Oscar Davis, was a lay preacher and his wife had just died. First thing you know, Oscar had him a new girlfriend. One day a church deacon approached him and said, "Preacher, don't you think it's a little soon for you to be courtin? Your wife just died two months ago." Oscar replied, "Well, the way I see it--Ethel's as dead as she'll ever be!" Pat