Well, I registered the "sand" bit as a Twainism, but I didn't see that the rest of the message tied into _HF_. What threw me was that the 'Why picket 'Huck Finn'?' message I responded to had a "RE:" in front of it, meaning it was a response to some other soul's ravings. I was curious to know if someone *had* called for a picket/boycott/bookburning (mobs have more practice with books than the film medium), prompting the satire... Robert Dagnall