... >> I simply won't apply the "looks like a duck" logic to the issue.

No, no, you prefer the OOOOMPAH OOOOMPAH logic.

>> Do you think that a chip placed in an snap-type holder ...

Have you read the description in the Shop at Home Network ad for this item? I thought not. See my post below to Archie which contains the full text. Or, since you don't believe anything I say, see it for yourself at (the link is too long to fit, so you'll have to cut and paste -- they do let you have scissors there, don't they?):

http://www.shopathometv.com/shopathome/network/
product/productDetail.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1236438157.
1093995762@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccdadcmgkjlhkfcefeceeedffkdfjk.
0&search=true&OID=60844

It is NOT A SNAP-TITE, it is encapsulated. I know, I know, you don't know what that means and even if half a dozen people explain it, you'll be confused. So maybe you'll just have to trust someone on this one -- it's a slab.

>> ... with some descriptive comments inserted by the
>> owner is the same as a slab? I certainly don't.

If that's what they were offering, I would agree. It isn't. I don't.

>> Isn't that exactly what is on display on HSN?

Once again, did you even bother looking at the site before posting your message? Nah. Once again, you are full of OOOOMPAH ... OOOOMPAH .... OOOOMPAH.

Are you going to answer my challenge, Stu? Where did I "openly threaten" you with "the apparently secret 'do not trade list'"? I await your answer with bated breath but low expectation that you'll have one. ----- jim o\-S