It's ENTIRELY unfair of you to post this question:

am I unusually ignorant...

on any board other than Flame!

Anywho...ignorant, no...but we all know you've led such a sheltered life out there in the garage ;-)

I have to admit that although Wilson's name seems vaguely familiar (*very* vague), there's no way on earth I'd have been able to place him. For me, trying to keep Washington straight is not unlike trying to keep track of the countless like-named characters in a badly-written 17th century Russian novel. Untranslated.

If I were you, I'd just chalk this up under the old saying "you learn something new everyday...if you're not careful."