Thanks for your new comments Cracker. I appreciate it. Anyone who knows me or saw me involved in the Wind R. and Wilson R. clean-up projects knows how I feel about keeping our rivers clean.

However, I now know why a few complaints hit here and the STS office today. In my column transcript sent into STS I clearly had three dots then "... OK, now you know I like to joke around a bit" - right after the poor paint joke attempt I made. Somehow this got omitted by the article layout crew. I e-mail forwarded the original transcript back in today to STS office manager Lorraine, who is going to look into it; and said they would print a correction in the next issue. I can only guess at what happened. Maybe one of the crew thought the 3 dots meant it was a separate sentence for them only. Lorraine said she would find out. But despite that, I still wish I hadn't tried to make that poor joke; and will do better in the future. Thanks.

RT