My staff bought me a cake for my birthday several years ago. It was a beautiful round layer cake with fancy frosting flowers and someone even brought in a real cake knife to cut it. So I thanked everybody and started cutting large triangular pieces for everyone. As I cut out the first wedge, one of the staff quite indignantly and loudly blurted out "That's not how you cut a cake!!" Then there was this nodding and agreement amongst some of the staff that I indeed "didn't know how to cut a cake". So I just gave up and let them cut the cake and so I blurted out "That's how you cut a wedding cake and I want a big wedge not a little slice like that" And so later my one of the young people who I always talked football with said, "They just wanted to run you down about cutting your birthday cake" and so ever since I am always suspicious when staff gives me a birthday cake and brings in a big knife to cut it with. Mark Patrick A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>