Miss Maggie,
 
I would like to congratulate you on your ferret pictures web page, and ask
how in *bleepity*bleep*bleep* you got your ferrets to pose so attractively
for the photographer.
 
A typical photo-taking session with me and the ferrets looks like this:
 
Melissa, thinking, OOOH! Great pose! *click*
(picture that's actually taken makes the ferret look like a slightly
squashed and unloved cold wet cat hairball without legs and a deformed nose)
 
Melissa, thinking, WOW! Great lighting! Stand still! No, stand still! Hey!
Come out from under there!  Hey!  Stop moving!  Let go of the camera strap!
LET GO!  Give me that lens cap back!  Great pose!  Oooh, stand right there...
No!  Don't move!  NO!  You smudged the lens with your cold wet nose, you
dork!  (resulting picture:
http://www.us.itd.umich.edu/~squirty/hp/pets/smudge.gif)
 
Melissa, frustrated (and jealous) photographer
 
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 By the whole newsgroup devoted tennis showing
     it after scarfing fork and laughters
[Posted in FML issue 1899]