Miss Maggie, I would like to congratulate you on your ferret pictures web page, and ask how in *bleepity*bleep*bleep* you got your ferrets to pose so attractively for the photographer. A typical photo-taking session with me and the ferrets looks like this: Melissa, thinking, OOOH! Great pose! *click* (picture that's actually taken makes the ferret look like a slightly squashed and unloved cold wet cat hairball without legs and a deformed nose) Melissa, thinking, WOW! Great lighting! Stand still! No, stand still! Hey! Come out from under there! Hey! Stop moving! Let go of the camera strap! LET GO! Give me that lens cap back! Great pose! Oooh, stand right there... No! Don't move! NO! You smudged the lens with your cold wet nose, you dork! (resulting picture: http://www.us.itd.umich.edu/~squirty/hp/pets/smudge.gif) Melissa, frustrated (and jealous) photographer ___ Melissa Litwicki __ [log in to unmask] ___ By the whole newsgroup devoted tennis showing it after scarfing fork and laughters [Posted in FML issue 1899]