Well syc, the world is definitely opening up. Give it some more time. Location does have a big part in it - if you lived in Carroll County, MD, you probably *would* have been greeted with a great number of burning crosses on your front lawn

"Where the men are men and the sheep are scared", they say. Well. I do, anyway. God. Fucking rhymed again.
I remember that S&M Computers thing - it was an IotD a long long time ago. Or was in a backlog cleaning. That was a rather humorous story
Maggie - why do you figure the sex should come before the cleaning? The "mess" created by sex, or something else?