Funny thing Jackie, I was thinking the same thing, go figure huh girl? Anyway, I remember one time being in a van in the Canadian Rockies and it was snowing pretty hard. Some idiot decides to pass us and started swerving, he gained control but I'll always remember what the drive of the van we were in said..."some people just always have to be first"...I guess it's the same here...some people have to be right....one thing about message boards that has always bothered me cuz this is not the only one I've noticed it on is what you said...someone asks an innocent question and pretty soon everyone is arguing and the question never does get answered...Personally I think that people that feel the need to harshly criticize people or do the name calling thing ie: land whales, are definately not people I want to meet in person so maybe it does help weed those out. The only other reason I've thought of is maybe cabin fever is setting in...what was it Jimmy Buffet did in a song...oh yeah, shot six holes in his freezer...