All right now . . . Listen Up ~ ! (1.) In an effort to stimulate investigative interest in the use of the word, _FERRET_ as an adjective, noun or otherwise, you may consider the adjectival modifier of the noun, _FACE_, as somehow descriptive of Army Medical Corps, Major Frank Burns facial appearance. Major Burns was the butt of many sarcastic jokes from the other doctors in the TV show, _MASH_, as you would know had you watched some of the M.A.S.H. adventures. M*A*S*H Frank Burns "Ferret Face" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8BcRTassOs I hope you can pull up from the link above the color photos of Ferret Face and the accompanying song, _THEY'RE COMING TO TAKE ME AWAY_. The song is pretty good and is quite catchy. However, as the photos are flashed of Ferret Face, I'm at quite a loss to see in his facial features much resemblance to the face of a typical sable hob or even a pointy nosed jill. Methinks the label of Ferret Face is stretching reality a bit, and I do wonder what you ferreters see in his visage as ferret-like? (2.) In another discovery I caught a second time is the simile, looks like a _FERRET-FACED-FREAK _ Here we have a well known radio talk show host referring to a spokesman who apparently made comments unflattering to the host. The link is below. . <http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2008/09/ferret-faced-freak-pleads-to-obama-take.html> These two examples cite use of the word, _FERRET_, in an un-complementary manner and seem to strongly suggest that a human being ho looks like a ferret, sort of, is a person other than handsome. The connotation is quite negative in this second instance. But I must concede that I don't have a picture of the so called, _FERRET-FACED-FREAK_ who is named in the epithet. Perhaps one of you who may have an interest in this could provide a link to the subject's photo. (3.) For those of you following the talks on the health care legislation, as have I, one is not surprised to hear the pro and con debate wherein the con often speak of the devil in the details and the need to_ FERRET OUT_ obscure facts and the so-called unexpected consequences lying within the1,600 pages of the Bill. Does this mean, then, that the writers of the legislation are _FERRETING IN_ data, such as a thieving ferret that hides your dirty socks . . . in his favorite hidey hole or under the sofa? This is the latest from drawdE iksnipi:L, who is sadly missing his rehomed eleven, bright-eyed, wet nosed diggers. Just have to ferret out some more, somewhere. Were I to appeal to local breeders, may I be fortunate to receive donated male kits in the near future, thenso get started on training to dig out (FERRET OUT) unexploded munitions, bomblets, booby traps, and land mines around the world. Won't you help and come with me, if in spirit only, please?. And on another note, can you refer me to a blog servicer wherein I may post not just my interests but also drawings, phyrret art, and photographs. Since I'm in retirement, on a low, low fixed income, and facing my 50th wedding anniversary 09.17.2010. , (anticipating dinner at McDonalds here on Mercer Island with my Swedish bride) the dollars are scarcer every year. Hence, the blog must need be inexpensive, for sure. So, you got some ideas, yes? Change and Hope. Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. Send quote to a friend <http://en.proverbia.net/enviar_frase.asp?id=2351> James Baldwin <http://en.proverbia.net/citasautor.asp?autor=10412> (1924-1987) African-American writer. Edward Lipinski at Ferrets North West Foundation on Mercer Island, Washington State. [Posted in FML 6486]