Dear Ferret Folks- I thought you were JOKING this morning when I started getting e-mails in my inbox about hagfish fancier fanclubs on Facebook. But I followed the links, and lo and behold.... OK. I apologize to the hagfish fanciers of the world about their bizarre, twisted admiration for a primitive lamprey like thing that looks like an inner tube, has whiskers, and horrifies its enemies by tying itself in a knot and emmiting quarts and quarts of viscous slime when threatened. Here is a short film about hagfish. I think ferrets are much cuter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYRr_MrjebA. I will *not* apologizie for suggesting that hagfish are much more attractive than limber, oily, Belgian "Action Hero" Jean-Claude Van Damme. I bet he can tie his legs together in a knot over his head. I hope he sticks that way, just the way his grandmother warned him when he was a kid. Alexandra in MA [Posted in FML 6368]