[MJA]

Originally Posted by RascalPuff Dear MJA: You appear to be lost and marooned in the embezzling parlance and off-topic jingoism of a compulsively gambling and drinking, hard-drug-addicted barrister and computer programmer-engineer, who over-extended and perished himself in your described gas station, in 1999.

Dear RP,

I wasn't lost till I read what you just wrote.
Whats an embezzling parlance and off-topic jingoism?
On second thought, unless its positive, I don't want to know.
Some of it does sound a bit like me, and how I use to be.
I confess, I use to own a gas station, and helped many lost travelers with directions much like yourself.
As for your "Which way is up" question, I hope this arrow below points you on your way,
and don't forget, always carry chains.

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MJA