I have to search in the FML Archives for Dick Bossart's ferret sliding
post and some other folk's posts for giving URLs of ones which aren't
mine for including.  (I'm short on time.) but in reply to Judy's
challenge here was my own funniest *and most embarrassing* ferret
experience:
 
>Date:    Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:23:53 -0400
>From:    Sukie Crandall <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: the funniest thing one of our family ferrets ever did
>
>
>The single funniest thing one of our's ever did happened long ago.
>Hjalmar was a kit and we used to get our dairy products from a local
>dairy, Wagners (Beth here knows them!).  Their dairy store was next to
>a milking barn.  Usually our ferrets take readily to travel but Hjalmie
>did not so we were taking him on short trips, including this outing to
>the dairy, his first.  It was a hot summer day and I was young enough
>and in shape enough that such a day meant that I was in short top and
>strapless bra.  After our arrival, Steve went into the store to get our
>supplies and I stayed outside with Hjalmar, only to have a very curious
>and very elegant gentleman approach to meet Hjalmar.  Hjalmie was being
>to calm down when a cow mooed.  Well, that kit headed for the safest
>place he knew: my shirt.  I don't know which of us humans was the more
>embarrassed when my bra wound up suspended from my waist with a startled
>Hjalmie sitting in one cup!
>
>(Oh, nothing more embarrassing than undergarments showed.  We didn't
>dress with showing bras back in those days.)
> [Posted in FML issue 3890]
 
OH!  I'd forgotten this one!  I just found it while seeking the floor
one:
 
http://listserv.cuny.edu/Scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind9903&L=ferret-search&P=R28957&D=0
 
and also forgot:
 
http://listserv.cuny.edu/Scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind9704&L=ferret-search&P=R18371&D=0
 
The sliding:
 
http://listserv.cuny.edu/Scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind9702&L=ferret-search&P=R31787&D=0
 
I recall that Beth long ago had a hilarious one involving plants and mud
but can't find it.  There have been so many funny ones over the years.
[Posted in FML issue 4467]