Dear Ferret Folks- I just got caught up on the last two weeks of the FML. Ah. Hmm. How interesting. Yes. In the spirit of "Now, For Something Completely Different" and the celebration of *true* dark humor (and not accidental near-misses that lead only to chaos and confusion) I offer the following, a masterpiece. I do not know the author. But I think of it often, and I have taken tremendous comfort from it when the subject certainly, *unquestionably* lends itself to being changed on a grand scale. Here we go. ********************************************************************* A guy was walking past the mental hospital the other day, and all the patients were shouting, "13...13....13...13." The fence was too high to see over, but he saw a little gap in the planks and looked through to see what was going on. Someone immediately poked him in the eye with a stick. Then they all started shouting. "14...14...14...14....." ********************************************************************* There now. Don't you feel better? Alexandra in MA [Posted in FML 5990]