It's entirely possible, even probable that this will be just one of hundreds who so-happened to tune in to the January 15th edition of NBC's Today show and saw Ben Stiller being interviewed briefly by Matt Laurer, and then going into the entire history of his original remarks which were uttered in an attempt at being funny (he seemed to realize as soon as the words were out that it went worse than flat as an attempt at humor) on one of the Tonight shows with Jay Leno, and brought with him and read on-air some of the deluge of e-mails sent to him about it. (mention was made about how much more organized the ferret lovers seemed to be than, say, dog enthusiasts) He then accepted a ferret into his arms and gave a long and detailed and sincere public apology which was sealed with a gentle kiss to the ferret's little head. Wow, what a great plug this was for both ferrets and ferret enthusiasts everywhere! Such was the impact that indignant ferret-owners have made that the Gannet News release in our local newspaper of the description of "Along Came Polly" showed Mr. Stiller holding a big chocolate-colored ferret with the caption "Ben Stiller gets to be friends with a ferret in Along Came Polly". Hey, y'all ferret-folks! You know what?! You-all got some heavy duty clout! Anyway, if there are more than three messages on this Same thing, Mr. Gruber please feel free to delete this one as extraneous, it just plain feels good to be able to talk about this, even to just one person! Not just doggoned good, but Ferretly Fine! :) [There are a few! LOL. BIG] Susie Lee (with Wes Hurley) of the Ferret & Dove Sanctuary of Pensacola, FL. our all-about is here... http://www.angelfire.com/theforce/ferret_rescuer/index.html [Posted in FML issue 4394]