The new Ty beanie baby is called Runner the Mustelidae.  But the poem
reads:
 
"A ferret, a mongoose, a weasel, a mink?
What am I... what do you think?
Find a book, look and see
I'm whatever you want me to be"
 
Of course we all know the mongoose is member of the viverridae family not
mustelidae.
 
But Ty seems to think mongooses are mustelids; the first version of the
poem, since pulled from the market read:
 
"I'm not so mean, I'm really shy
But every cobra has to die
I grab them by their little head
And whack them till they're stone cold dead!"
 
This version is selling briskly on ebay, as is the less violent tag
version.  There are now over 450 listings for "ty runner"!
 
Linda Iroff
Oberlin OH
[Posted in FML issue 3113]