Somewhere back in a Poli Sci lecture a beaver scout leader whom the kids called Bullfrog told us when talking about SPSS and crosstabulation tables and a Canadian federal election data set that crashed the VAX we needed to pay attention to Joe Six Pack. He definitely wasn't talking about 6-pack abs--I don't think anybody cared about that in those days--except maybe Joe Wieder or Ed Allen. We were used to being treated to tidbits of wisdom.  Frank MacKinnon, whose father had been a Minister of Agriculture and Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island, had made a career of writing about posturing, patronage and pork barelling in politics, encouraged all of us to take the Foreign Service Exam, telling us that the key requirement was not academic brilliance but your ability to hold your booze and your predilection for booze, bets and babes.  If you got drunk with a sniff of a beer cork (was beer ever corked?), or were easily drunk under the table or talked when you were un...