[quote author=mastertangler link=1173671225/140#142 date=1275309771

Ben Franklin once said that you can have your opinion or your friends, you can't have both.    [/quote]

This quote was meant to apply to ME, period. While I personally don't think I am opinionated (holding to an opinion regardless of the facts) I am a person of, shall we say, firm convictions. Add to the mix not being especially shy and there is a recipe for "rubbing" some folk the wrong way. (How's that for being on topic!). Hence I try and keep the Franklin quote in my back pocket. Anyway, I had to clarify that lest poor, pitiful me be mis-understood.