Thank you under a CPell and Headless_Caboose for your votes, and also to Byron - not sure how I missed thanking you in the first batch. You also win the prize for the first known Occident quote in a JNST thread ... and if you're in the UK and the 3:51am timestamp is accurate, it's certainly true to say that, for you, the night is long.
I only said that last bit so I could claim the non existant second prize
Update: with sincere apologies to Headless_Caboose: all prizes to her of course!