Martha Adams wrote:

It's off topic ... when I see text like this, I think
it illustrates the kind of family its writer grew up
in. Grew up? Well, I mean in a calendar sense here.

To lighten things up a bit:
TEDDY BEARS... _IN SPACE_!:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20081204...e-6323e80.html
Well, actually, the floated up there rather than being blasted up there
on a rocket.
But hey, they did get up there, and the photo's well worth seeing.
It's a pity my little teddy bear - "Zondick" - with his chest full of
Soviet space medals, couldn't have accompanied them. :-)

Pat