Reply #2: It rang so true, too. For some reason, a lot of us blokes seem to like

[Joe Chi Minh]

showing our injuries! Women just quietly get on with things. They're used to taking all the flak, and getting no recognition. Physical injuries are child's play, I expect. The human spirit is an amazing thing, though, in men and women, isn't it?

It would have been very dry and witty if he'd just whispered, "Gravity", but shouting it was "the cat' whiskers". He sounds very American to me. Stolid as suet pudding, but as passionate as a latin! I hope the surgeons and nurses didn't have too much of a struggle keeping his quip out of their minds during the operation.