Gary, thank you again for providing the simplest, most concise, easiest, and most comprehensive rules for the use of comparative words.

I've forwarded your information to William Shakespeare (“While I may scape,
I will preserve myself: and am bethought
To take the basest and most poorest shape,
That ever penury, in contempt of man,
Brought near to beast.”) --King Lear, Act 2, Scene 3

I've also passed it on to Jon Donne (Sweetest Love! I do not go
For weariness of thee,
Nor in hope the world can shew
A fitter love for me;) -- Song

I've ensured that Charles Dickens gets a copy (“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, …” ) -- Paragraph 1, line 1 "A Tale of Two Cities"

Also, I will be sure to never describe this thread as the most wearisome in Civil's short history.

(And, yes, I am aware of the difference in superlatives and comparatives.)