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Hi Folks, I'm back off a holiday which went reasonably well except for a horrific 6 hour return flight. I read the Engineer jokes on return amongst the other 547 messages. (Could not stop mail before leaving because my server had a major system crash). Thought I would adapt a new Engineer joke for you. A man fishing from a rowing boat on his local lake overbalanced and fell into the water. Being a poor swimmer he quickly got into difficulties. When a passer-by spotted this, he dived into the water and managed to drag him up to the shore. A crowd gathered, and several people tried to revieve him with mouth to mouth resuscitation without much success until a doctor pushed his way through the crowd. He pointed out that the poor man's lungs were obviously full of water, turned him face down and proceeded to press and release his back. Sure enough, copious amounts of water began to gush and pour from the man's mouth. Whilst this was going on, another man pushed to the front of the crowd, quietly observed the doctor for a while and then said, "Do you mind if I make a suggestion?" The hard pressed doctor snapped, "Listen Mister, I don't know who you are but I am a doctor of 25 years experience and am highly qualified in resuscitation so I can assure you I know what I am doing". "That may be the case", replied the stranger, "But I am a Marine Engineer and can assure YOU that if you do not pull his rear end above the water line, you are going to empty the lake!". All for now, Ernie. Ernie Peters ([log in to unmask])