Been a long time since I was a Miss. Can't say I miss it. I blame that on being a southerner, we haven't been introduced FtF and I feel somewhat inappropriate without a honorific attached. Would Miz due in our future transactions?

Re: your last paragraph, Hear! Hear! :-) I hope the 2008 elections will let the past 16 years of very partisan bitterness recede to a much less contentious simmer. And yes I do believe in Santa Claus, I have a 3 year old grand-daughter helping that. :-)