Wolf ...LOL...<ggg>...Besides that, the Gunmetal Girl speaks French, while we are limited to a little Russian from our "spy aircraft" days, a number of profane phrases in Turkish, a larger number of "border Tex-Mex" Spanish sentences...or partial sentences, with improperly conjugated verbs and sloppily declined nouns, and those remaining words in German that "mutte" taught me when I was two, and it hadn't yet become unpopular to speak German around aircraft factories..... We do have some good French friends in Besancon and a couple of other cities, with the invitation to visit long hanging on the door and a bottle of champagne waiting patiently in the cellar....so we may yet take your advice....<g> I also found that remining life data for the most recent purchase on "NCN" (AMEX).....one of the reasons I "lept" in there and bought a few shares.. but just could not locate anything on their overall replacement rate. One would think that might be prominently displayed. Anyway, we are very pleased with our royalty trusts..... We never expected them to be a capital gains vehicle, which they have turned out to be......less today, perhaps, but there is a limit to what one should expect out of a defensive play, I would guess <GG>....thanks again. Enjoy the trip. tso |