public boolean whore(String x) { if (x = "Your Mom") { return true; } else { return false; } You forgot your close brace, Worsemaker. And the else is extraneous. And I don't think you need the "public" unless it's actually in a class. And THAT has infinite levels of recursion. ;P *** Worsemaker was kicked by Mandoric (C++ kick. =p)