Makes you blind, does it, Ann?

Even worse, John, it makes you American.:)

(I only used that pesky thing to make it clear that I was joking.)

'Whock' is a transitive verb, not reflexive.
'to whock' : to murmur to, to address a lullaby to, sometimes employing a implement. Benjamin Harrison (once US president): 'I whocked that golf ball a good 325 yards for an easy putt." Babe Ruth (baseball notable): 'I try to whock the ball as hard as I can. It does a body good.' Beowulf: 'Hwock. Hwock!'

The term was originally coined by the poet Fozzy Bear in his famous imperative tryptch "Whocka! Whocka! Whocka!

The Latin ending was, like the Borscht Belt it first adorned, eventually lost.

Oh, goody, the thread's gone silly and I can now post this summation of the State of the Sphere:

http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/cdnd...cba9233b63.jpg

Dammit, Julie, you've been snacking on it again.

Ann, Beowulf, as we have seen, did mickel hwocking but it was in Denmark. Perhaps you are right. Perhaps it is better that you don't. But you could.

My Korean friend has been wokking food in her mom's restaurant for years.

Where do Chinese chefs swim when they go to the beach?

Near the wocks.

So, is anyone still concerned about the state of the Sphere?

I never was, and still aren't, because clearly it's in the safe hands of a load of comedians, so what is there to worry about? (Notice that I deliberately kept well away from making any comparisons to the idiots being in charge of the asylum! :D Only joking.)

Jayne