"Lay" CAN be transitive, but only if
you have the ability to produce eggs....> Nickie

 Flat, like everything else, is a relative term!....> Janice

If you use improper grammar, will it cause the objects inside the crate to
suffer dammage? .... Robert


...this really must be silly season for museum people ... does anyone think
that it might be something to do with all those summer tourists stampeding
through our work space that is causing our brains to frazzle ... (or is
that frizzle... frozzle)  ?

Susan