terman doing Ed MacMahon voice&gt;

Say G'night E-verbody!  Drive Safely!

Jon Awbrey

P.S.

Since Pat Hayes has chosen to invoke the notions
of "pragmatism" and "enthusiasm" in a way that,
to my ear, anyway, sounds like a very wry joke,
if not a flat on its assumption contradiction
in terms, let me just "advert" to yet another
conversation that Matthew and I were having,
just the other day, off this very topic, to
wit, the variety of meanings that we have
in our laird of the title "pragmatic" --
and here '