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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> I've been on this list for a long time and have found that you guys 
> are sure a caring, knowledgeable lot...But this thread has kind of 
> surprised me...Where is the compassion?

It's all my fault. I started this thread with the subject line: Let 
them garden! This was my facetious allusion to "Let them eat cake," 
largely attributed to Marie Antoinette but that is disputed by her 
biographer and historians. Regardless of whomever first spoke it, the 
flippant phrase is used as an example of uncaring ignorance about the 
plight of hungry peasants.

Like humor, allusion and subtlety are often missed or misunderstood. 
You may recall that I lay the fault squarely with the author.