<p>And let’s not forget this great line of yours: “I have had an epiphany (Don’t worry. When a candidate used it on me this week, I had to look it up with all it’s meanings also).”</p>
<p>Perhaps when the candidate used “it” on you he was speculating that you’d been e-pith-anized. You know, like the frogs in high school…</p>
<p>But since we’re joking around, here’s one I’m reminded of every time I read one of your posts:</p>
<p>There was a hunter who told his buddies that come hunting season he was going to bag himself a bear. So hunting season comes around and off he goes into the woods. He spies a really big bear peacefully picking berries, aims his rifle at him, pulls the trigger, and misses. The bear, understandably annoyed that some jerk would shoot at him, grabs the hunter, performs unmentionable acts on him not appropriate for discussion in polite society and punishable by law in many states, warns the hunter never to return, and releases the unfortunate fellow to crawl home in shame.</p>
<p>After several weeks of recovery in the local hospital, the hunter, again while drinking with his buddies, tells them he’s going to get that dang bear and make him pay for his outrages.</p>
<p>So the next hunting season rolls around, the hunter finds that same bear picking berries, aims his rifle at him, pulls the trigger, and misses again. The bear, now really ****ed off, grabs the hunter, again performs unmentionable acts on him not appropriate for discussion in polite society or in front of hamsters and punishable by law in many states, warns the hunter never ever to return, and releases the unfortunate fellow a second time.</p>
<p>Again, and after several weeks recovery in the hospital, the hunter swears a solemn oath to his drinking buddies that he’s going to get that @#$%ing bear if it’s the last thing he does.</p>
<p>So the third season rolls around, and the hunter again finds that same bear picking berries, but this time he’s got the drop on the big brute and has him right in his sights at point blank range. The bear knows he’s a goner, and that his berry eating days are over. The hunter aims his rifle, pulls the trigger, and for the third time misses again. The stunned bear, after recovering from his surprise, grabs the hunter by the collar, looks him in the eye, and says, “I’m beginning to think you’re not really here for the hunting, are you?”</p>