diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e80979f5b..f5e382970 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+Fri May 16 17:26:10 1997  Jim Blandy  <jimb@totoro.cyclic.com>
+
+	* README: Changed Mikael's threads work attribution in order
+	to sooth Anthony's enormous, but wounded, ego.
+
+Fri May 16 17:26:53 1997  Jim Blandy  <jimb@totoro.cyclic.com>
+
+	Just kidding!!!
+
 Fri May 16 04:24:48 1997  Jim Blandy  <jimb@floss.cyclic.com>
 
 	Guile 1.1 released.
diff --git a/README b/README
index 578e6d84c..5dbbcdcbf 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -122,7 +122,8 @@ Mikael Djurfeldt designed and implemented:
 * stack overflow detection,
 * the GDB patches to support debugging mixed Scheme/C code,
 * the original implementation of weak hash tables,
-* the `threads' interface (rewriting Anthony Green's work), and
+* enhancements to the `threads' interface (based on Anthony Green's
+  work), and
 * detection of circular references during printing.
 
 Mark Galassi contributed the Guile high-level functions (gh_*), and
@@ -132,8 +133,8 @@ process of revision.)
 Anthony Green wrote the original version of `threads', the interface
 between Guile and qt.
 
-Gary Houston wrote the Unix system call support, including the socket
-support, and did a lot of work on the error handling code.
+Gary Houston wrote much of the Unix system call support, including the
+socket support, and did a lot of work on the error handling code.
 
 Tom Lord librarified SCM, yielding Guile.  He wrote Guile's operating
 system, Ice-9, and connected Guile to Tcl/Tk and the `rx' regular