Here are the winning numbers for the Save Our Shelters raffle: The Grand Prize Winner of the basket: Number 190 The 12 second-prize winners of ferret soap (umm, soap for people, that is. The soap is SHAPED like a ferret): 410 296 33 196 419 339 485 127 69 358 131 93 Ela Heyn will contact the winners and their names will be published in the FML (with their permission, of course). Congratulations to all! How this worked: Each contest entry was assigned a number by Ela. There were 590 entries. (Wow, that's great!) Ela then sent the "master list" of numbers and names to the other SOS organizers (Judith White and Georgia Wood). I did not receive or see the list. The entrants each received a note from one of the SOS organizers containing his/her number(s). I was asked fairly early on if I would choose the winning numbers. I agreed, so I did not enter the contest. To choose the numbers randomly I was planning to number a bunch of raisins and let the ferrets choose, but the thought of trying to figure out how to number 590 of those little suckers and then trying to get them back from the ferrets before they were eaten turned me off to that idea (much to the disappointment of the ferrets, I'm sure). So, I turned to the computer and wrote a little Rexx program to spit out 13 non-duplicated random numbers in that range. It was only run once (believe it or not, it ran the first time :-)). The first number displayed was the grand prize winner. Bill [Posted in FML issue 3480]