Mistral wrote: <A rocket does not _equal_ a phallus. Symbols can sometimes illustrate reality; they do not ever define it.>

<gurgle> actually, I've been reminded of the American professor we saw on the TV years ago who passionately insisted that the telephone *white* pages were sexist because they were *deliberately* white ...

To rewrite an old saying' "never ascribe to malice what can be perfectly well explained by stupidity", one shouldn't (IMHO) ascribe authorial or producorial design to what can be explained by the basic realities of 1970s series production.

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