Without meaning to indulge in conversational terrorism (http://www.vandruff.com/art_converse.html http://www.vandruff.com/art_converse.html, nit-picking), I don

Without meaning to indulge in conversational terrorism (http://www.vandruff.com/art_converse.html http://www.vandruff.com/art_converse.html, nit-picking), I don't think you meant 'at pains' where you used it. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/at_pains http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/at_pains