Pat, you can add your e-mail to your profile, and that way if anyone clicks on the name, they can get your e-mail address (and it keeps "spam harvster bots" from getting your mail by automagically reading the forums).
In order to "get it through the thickness" I always offer up; "Remember on the playground, that if you have a pork-chop kid and stick kid you can put the stick kid right up next to the middle of the teeter-toter and the pork-chop kid at the end" and when they nod in agreement I say "NO, that is exactly wrong, you put the skinny kid on the far out end and the pork-chop kid close to the middle pipe, and we say that as 'weight+distance equals balance or moment', which is 'the principal of balance' which is the way forklifts are designed".

AND, Dan, can you e-mail me that powerpoint too?

My mother wrote advertising so I grew up in a family were we didn't use "Fat" or "Skinny" to describe a person's figure.