LL --- I absolutely agree. Take a few seconds and email the advertiser. Tell them their ads got noticed. Tell them they also convinced you to never have anything to do with a brand that is so stupid that they apparently believe they can ANNOY you into buying something with such crappy, tasteless tactics! I was in advertising & marketing for almost thirty years and I know three things to be fact: 1. Advertising Agencies are arrogant morons. 2. The companies they represent will fire their a-- in a heartbeat if they get enough negative response. 3. Consumers have no idea how much power they have to change things. It's just like in politics. If you want things to BE different...YOU have to DO something different to create change. It won't happen on its own. Let's start a grassroots change right here folks. You ARE a brands ONLY source of income. You ARE a politicians ONLY source of power. Without YOU they are nothing. And it's amazing how much effect just a few words can have if they come from enough people. Tell the brands that any company that employs crap advertising must sell crap. Tell the politicians that when they spout BS, you will remember it on election day. They both spend millions of dollars trying to second guess what it is that you want to hear. Tell them. And tell your friends to tell them. As Pollyanna as it may sound...it works. I've seen the effect that just a few letters can have from the "other" side. You really do have all the power folks. That's it for my soapbox this morning. Go get'em. All my best --- Tango

Wetfeet - The Squirrel Toss video seems to have been removed. Bummer. Richardol - Oh, you meant the real Mark Trail. Cool. Interesting info - Squirrels that are black are grey squirrels w/ a different gene in play.* I first saw black squirrels in N. MN and thought they were pretty. They probably eat orchids, too. RP, red squirrels in the U.S. aren't endangered, but I just ran across info on Wikipedia about grey squirrels taking over in England, partially because they have no natural predators. That's too bad. "On some occasions, during the fall, large numbers of gray squirrels will search for new places to live. It is thought that this behavior, known as emigration, results when squirrel numbers are high and food is scarce. When mature forests covered most of eastern North America, this mass movement of squirrels was quite spectacular." http://www.dnr.state.md.us/wildlife/greysquirrel.html Can you imagine a "mass movement of squirrels"? It'd be like the Hitchcock movie "The Birds" or the attack of the killer tomatoes. "Hunters have to be quick and accurate to shoot the swift and elusive eastern grey squirrel. It is interesting to note that naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton credited these qualities of marksmanship, developed to a high degree by early American squirrel hunters, with helping to defeat the British during the American revolution." http://www.hww.ca/hww2.asp?id=89 Wow. My grandfather, who grew up in rural Arkansas, often shot squirrel, which we ate. Wild turkey, too. I didn't realize what a good shot he must have been. Any of you who can shoot a squirrel - amazing. The fact that squirrels travel through their territory in the same sequence each day suggests loads of possibilities. If you knew the little darling was going to hit your back yard around 5:30 every afternoon... http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Sciurus_carolinensis.html "Are There Squirrels in Heaven?" This and other topics are discussed on another anti-squirrel site: http://www.scarysquirrel.org/page1.html. WC8 *"Eastern grey squirrels Sciurus carolinensis commonly occur in two colour phases, grey and black, which leads people to thinkÂmistakenlyÂthat there are two different species. Black is often the dominant colour in Ontario and Quebec, toward the northern limits of the species range. Farther south the black phase is less common and is not found at all in the southern United States. This may indicate that the gene responsible for black coloration has some cold-weather adaptation associated with it." http://www.hww.ca/hww2.asp?id=89

Thx Urlee! I don't have a tut for that. Sue got that from my set of tags I mentioned I made, LOL! :·)) -:¦:- ) ¸.·´ .·´¨¨)) ~Summer ((¸¸.·´ .·´ ( -:¦:- ((·:

joann asks " How exactly do you use them? Use them in e-mails and of course they are used here all the time. Do I need to send them to photobucket first? Yes, you do need to send them to photobucket first or another place to host them. Photobucket is what I use. To put them on the message boards here you need to copy the 3rd line ...HTML Code is written next to that line. When I use them in e-mails I click on the picture itself and copy it, then paste into the e-mail. Thanks, I have forgot so much."