Margery,

You wrote:

>I'm the sort of person that can easily sit on a fence and see
>both sides of the situation (someone said that's why we have
>a cleft in our backsides--so we can straddle the fence!)

To those of us "golden oldies" that's a "mugwump": a person with his mug on
one side of the fence and his wump on the other!

Tee hee!

Jan Barger, chuckling in Wheaton, IL