And NOW, by polite request:

[VanessaUSA]

Thank you all very much for the nice welcome. As for slaying any dragonish posters or otherwise passing out beatings, even to chess-playing pigeons and the like, I assure you that it is usually done without any particular intent to slay, brutalize, offend, or insult anyone really. I simply say what I think and what seems to fit. By the same token, I don't usually take things personally unless there is very clear reason to do so. The good thing about such places as this is that many of us are so used to disagreeing, debating, and arguing as a foundation of our lives, that most here, thankfully, I assume, are not so likely to take things so personally. Meh, perhaps I err in that assumption. Time will tell.