i mean, if you like biting, you can keep doing it! i don't believe that i should tell you how to speak or anything. for me, it was a trick that kind of helped at first and then it got worse and worse where sometimes i had to bite on every word to get something out. really, for me, it was like the next generation of blocking -- i think as a kid i was real ashamed of doing the classic stuttering so i switched over to blocking because it sounded less like stuttering. by the same token, the biting was a way of doing a faster block. but it got kind of crazy -- i remember flipping my gums inside out after a tough day and looking at all the bite marks and thinking "what the hell is going on man". now, i just try not to hurt myself and not be afraid of the stutter. :-> of course, easier said than done! yeah, the interview was crazy, but i'm glad i went through with it. i came out of it definitely thinking that i didn't want to be speaking as a job, but maybe i would have gotten used to it. we are definitely crazy, but maybe that's not a bad thing!