[log in to unmask] wrote: > Why does the figure head need to be female? <<< Marling: You're absolutely right! I guess I'm hopelessly moribund in the classic male-nautical tradition of naming a ship "she." [ I must have gotten a bad batch of Eldepryl . . . <I think I've used that excuse before> ]. Anyway, you'll have to submit your idea for a Moe Udall figurehead to Barbara Mallut . . . . she may have already started on the Janet Reno model, [although the way she tells it one may not be able to tell the difference between Moe and Janet <giggle >]. Stephan 52/6 [ on son's e-mail]