Finucane wrote Oh, that IS a vicious canard, my dear fellow!  It just happens that at the very moment this lassie intruded herself into our attention we were engaged in a very serious discussion of the battle of Aegospotami and its effect on the outcome of the Peloponnesian War, as decribed in Thucydidies' "History," which I am sure you've read closely and discussed often with your peers.

Danners, wern't you just a wee scribe for Lysander in that war?