Tanya wrote about using kleenex boxes as toys - it's very, very cute. Potpie stuffed herself into one the other day and spent a good long while just turning around inside it, poking her head out occasionally to see what we were giggling at. She looked like a miniature Cardboard boxasaurus (a little known dinosaur that went extinct not because of some highly contested global calamity, but because it had no legs and was out-evolved by the sock, its main prey, which DID develop a means of locomotion (the electric dryer - and you thought nice Mr. GE was responsible for that). The C. boxasaurus had a peculiar survival tactic - it was so cute that nesting mother dinosaurs would snatch it up and carry it back to their nests, where the C. boxasaurus could live under the relative protection of lots of dinosaur mothers peering into the nest and going "Oooo! EEEE!" (dinosaurian for 'Too Damn Cute!') Certain scientific circles do exist that believe the C. boxasaurus wasn't forced into extinction due to losing the evolutionary predator-prey battle with socks, but that the C. boxasaurus' tendency to nip at the scaly toes of their host 'mothers' usually resulted in catastrophic squashing of the C. boxasaurus. Why natural selection didnt just result in a non-nippy population of C. boxasaurii is uncertain - the prevailing theory argues that the nipping behavior was just impossibly wedged into their genetic makeup). Melissaurus and the ferraptors ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Melissa Litwicki "Is it ... atomic?" [log in to unmask] "Yes! VERY atomic!" [Posted in FML issue 1769]