Here's the runner up in the purple prose category of Bulwer Lytton competition for the worst verse: Runner-Up: Like most members of "Mustela putorius fero," known to laymen as the domestic ferret, our inquisitive hero (about whom more we shall shortly read) resembled a shrunken polar bear, toasted by a blowtorch, suffixed by a tail, and stretched out like taffy while still hot. ===== Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. - Frank Herbert * * * * * * * Green Bean & Family - http://foxfoot.tripod.com/ Kitties: Happy, Cooper, Tibet, TS, Green Bean & Jessamyn Ferrets: Boo, Eris, Texas, Icarus, Dakini, Dodger, Snagglepuss, Strawberry, Isadora & Feona Hopper [Posted in FML issue 3476]