Random fortune from offensive database: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The reason we need the MX missile system is that the missiles we currently have in the ground are the Minuteman model, which is very old. The Defense Department can't even remember where half of them are. Insects have built nests in them. People have built houses directly over the silos. What this means, of course, is that if we ever needed them to help obliterate all human life on the planet, they could be a real embarrassment. I mean, maybe YOU'RE comfortable with the prospect of missiles that are supposed to represent you barging over the North Pole trailing shreds of polyester carpeting from some recreation room in South Dakota, but your strategic defense planners are not. -- Dave Barry, "At Last, the Ultimate Deterrent Against Political Fallout"