Just before John clamps down on the naughty boys treading all that Quark and providing fun galore to those of us who have put the List asleep during the past few months (:-) a pedantic philologist on the sidelines would like to point out that the getretene Quark saying is to be traced back to a more dignified source than the lowly Volksmund: Getretner Quark Wird breit, nicht stark. (Goethe, Westöstlicher Divan, Buch der Sprüche, c. 1814-1827)
