Alan, No, not at all, none of my family member I aware of has ever joined the police or the army. My high school classmate did join the army, 4 boys and 1 girl I know joined the army couple of years ago, 1 boy lost a leg this year, the girl lost her eyes in Iraq last year somehow. Man, this is real life. Hard to believe it. If this name really scares you, I better change it back to my nick name. Let me know. Funny NYPD ----- Original Message ---- From: Alan B. Pearce To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. Sent: Thursday, October 4, 2007 9:28:31 AM Subject: Re: [ot] Link Farms? >> >BTW, I expect there are those who find your ID "Funny NYPD" >> >to be offensive... >> > I am sure the NYPD would ... > >Are they not known for their sense of humour, then? :-) Are any police? What comes to mind is an item I saw in the paper not too long ago about how a foreign tourist got (what I would class as) unreasonably roughly handled for jaywalking in some US city, but I don't think it was NY. Giving a foreigner a friendly warning was not enough apparently. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist ____________________________________________________________________________________ Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. http://sims.yahoo.com/ -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist