Given that "Fast Eddy" (Viscount Edward Zifram of Gendy) has a laurel in needlepoint and Rosy Greer (so I'm old, sue me) used to do the same on the sidelines... and sailors from the ages of rough and ready knit, sew, and embroider, well, guys - I'd say, "Real men aren't afraid of needles". Heh. Hrothny