We do wish to report, however, that there may be, at times, some misspellings and/or typos in our copy.  This is due to no fault of ours, mind you, but rather to an unfortunate shortage of certain letters in our favorite fonts -- New Times Roman and Goofy Bold.

We still will strive to do our best.  As the famous football coach said to his team right before the big game, "You've got to dance with them that brung ya.... not with the army Rumsfeld would like to have."

We of course hope to avoid the tsunami of protest and wrist flapping that broke out over the absence of Arial Narrow hyphens at the Emily Dickinson conference in Cambridge last spring.                                          

              The Barnacle Staff