LOL...you all are too much. prosperity - yes he does look a lot like a real person. Slinkey - I'm certainly not used to him by any means...lol Angela - he is creepy...when you take his hat off the hair comes off with it and he looks like a creepy incarnation of Mr. Clean. Kathleen your match.com comment was just too funny. Yachter - you have a good point there. However ever since last night he keeps scaring the cr*p out of me. I keep forgetting he is there and everytime I walk by he lights up and starts talking. Almost made me jump out of my skin a couple of times...LOL luvs - I considered that and covering him with a sheet but then he'll just look like a big ghost...LOL My youngest is in negotiation with me to let him reside in his room until next Halloween - he thinks he is "cool". We shall see...he is certainly an inside prop and more then likely would not hold up to the weather we have up here around October. Happy Halloween everyone...:)

Haahahahaa! Karen this is SO funny. I'm bursting into laughter reading these posts again, and remembering writing and reading them at the time. Well done! And my favourite part about Martha Stewart dropping in with her dish towel parachute!!! WAY too funny!

Yes, Mike, I am sure. The mechanical design, and the wash action, is quite between the Calypso and Oasis. The Calypso never fills with water to submerge the clothes. The single pump runs continually through the wash period to shower water over the clothes while the wash plate wobbles or the basket spins at 60 RPM. Recirculation also occurs during most of the rinse sequences. The clothes are dripping-wet if the cycle is paused, but no water is seen in the tub, it's all below the wash plate. The single pump reverses for drain. The mechanism is belt-driven. The main drive motor is a variable speed single-phase AC induction motor. A u-joint allows the wash plate to wobble when the motor runs in one direction, then levels/centers the plate for spin when the motor reverses. The spin basket has a brake like Whirlpool's transmission-drive toploaders. There are both agitator and wash plate models in the Oasis/Cabrio/Bravos line. The wash plate models do fill with water, although to a low level. The wash plate does not wobble, it oscillates back and both like a "normal" agitator (thus, the agitator models simply replace the wash plate with an agitator without requiring any change to the drive mechanism). No u-joint is involved. The drive mechanism has no belt, it's essentially identical to Fisher & Paykel's SmartDrive toploaders. The SmartDrive motor is a 3-phase brushless DC motor with a rotor positional sensor for precise speed and rotational control. There are two separate pumps, one for drain and one for recirculate. The recirculation pump runs only at certain times during the cycle, not continuously. The spin basket does not have a mechanical brake. It floats up slightly on the drive shaft by air buoyancy when the tub fills with water to disengage from the drive shaft so the wash plate (or agitator) can oscillate separately, then settles back onto the drive for spin when the water drains out. The Calypso basket doesn't float.

I agree with "Hello" or "Good morning". You might choose to add the "Father" ... but doubt that you'd choose to familiarize it to "Dad". As for some brands of Protestant clergy, some speak to them using the term, "reverend, as in in, "hello, reverend", or may be referred to in such a way as, in, say, a radio interview, " ... what's your opinion about that, reverend ..." The term "reverend" is considered an adjective, as a descriptor, and one would not use it in introducing someone as "Reverend Smith" any more than one would introduce you as "good Smith", if Smith happened to be your name. When introducing such a person, in a circumstance where one wished to convey that information, one would introduce such a person as "Reverend Mr./Ms. Smith". In a radio interview, where one wished to indicate the person's title, "Rev. Mr./Ms. Smith" in the beginning, after that just "Mr./Ms. Smith", or "Jane/John", as is common in that informal atmosphere. ole joyful