No thoughts because I haven't viewed your post.

However, I would like to nominate that the fairy/faerie you kill is the toe-nail fairy. For thoase unfamiliar with the toe-nail fairy she is a distant cousin of the tootyh fairy who was very busy in the pre-scissor/toe-clipper age. If a child lost a toe nail their parents would summon up the toe-nail fairy who would leave either a bean or small pebble behind the child's ear (depending on social class). The fairy still exists even though she is hardly ever called upon and still draws a fat pension. Please could you assassinate her at your earliest convenience? I assume you know how to kill fairies?

That's easy. Say you don't believe in fairies.

Is it the bean or the pebble that signifies the higher social class?

I fear, Draug, that the "I don't believe in fairies" method only worked upon the peace loving nomadic fairy, faerie vulgaris, that used to inhabit the bottom end of gardens but is now extinct. The others have developed some form of natural immunity.

@Maniac, yes as you have not listened i shall dispatch a toe-nail expert to seek out the toenail faerie, extract all the knowledge contained within, distill it down to it's essence and murder it's body.

However if you should eventually follow the link ( http://www.sciencemag.org/content/337/6096/846/suppl/DC2 - shorter version for those who might be on phones... ) then i will be forced to release the distilled essence back into the faerie re-incarnation field and let nature take it's course.

Well I need to punch the toe nail fairy in the face, then. She's prolly responsible for my wife's ingrown toe nail. I knew there was some bastard to blame.

@Oct - Tinker and all her kind are dear?! Sat it ain't so Joe!

Everyone join me in clapping your hands quickly and saying "I believe in fairies."

Very dear, Draug. $200 for half an hour last I heard.