Matthew Caulfield is right.  I don't think they teach "Grammar" in
school today.  Of course, the people that run advertising agencies do
not help: "Got Milk?"  Just read your newspaper or listen to news
commentators.  And don't you just love to read the ads on eBay?

Here's a challenge to all.  How long can you write and speak without
using the word "got"?  I was reading a book last year :-) when I realized
that "got" was not on the first 50 or so pages.  It was published in
the 1800s.  We've come a long way, baby; imagine what our language will
be like in the 22nd century.

Got to go <oops!>, have to go to my daughter's to watch the Rose Bowl.

Happy New Year all.
Harold M. Whipps Sr.