yes. bear in mind that I'm no good at the code necessary to insert the URL, so if any mod sees this and can fix it, I'd really appreciate, huh?

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_199.html

you can humour me and copy-paste this once, right? (you should know that I'm feeling fairly stupid right now, as this has been explained to me repeatedly. I guess I'll never remember.)

[edit--I didn't need to enter code, at least not in my browser! hurrah!]

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