Dear FML- In the Days of Old, the FML was a friendlier place. Remembering the Days of Old, Renee Downs deliberately yanked the tails of some of its traditional comedians. That would be me, that would be Wolfy. (Rebecca Stout.) She was doing this as a sort of invitation, "Please come out and play!" She had a specific goal in mind for doing so. A goal that would ultimately benefit ferrets. And she wanted to garner lots of attention. Well, Wolfy and I can do that. So "Yank Yank Yank." Heck, *I* didn't know what Renee was up to. I just went along with it, figuring her purpose would become clear in the fullness of time. [And heck here too -- I didn't even know there WAS a purpose. It would help to tell the moderator when something is planned! BIG] When people were initially baffled, I tried to explain what Renee had set in motion. It only made sense if you knew that ah, some of us had a bad habit of becoming Manic in August. It's that Bipolar thing. And this was the response: "Why don't you take your MD ramblings elsewhere? This is a ferret information list and do we all need to be subjected toyour odd rantings? I'll write the owner about this. It's rather self serving and nobody understands it." Nobody needed to understand it, really. But it didn't harm anyone, and it wouldn't have done anyone a lick of harm to have been civil about it. Tomorrow, the field of Psychopharmacology might discover the miracle drug that will cure me and nobody will ever be subject to my MD ramblings again. But...um... they are not working on an ugly pill. Good luck with that. Ferret. Alexandra in MA [Posted in FML 7527]