At 04:51 AM 6/6/03 -0700, Anthere wrote: >>what does that mean "ilk" ? Basically, it means "those like him/her/them" and is generally used when the writer dislikes the person or group in question. (It comes from an old Scottish kinship term.) -- Vicki Rosenzweig vr at redbird.org http://www.redbird.org