<shudder> Thanks for the warning, Theresa. I'll pass on that site.

Not that I have much choice, since I never received the original post
that had the URL. (No need to repost it! :)) My ISP's news server seems
to be getting posts all out of order this week. Was this that picture
of the fat guy with white beard, holding an enormous black-and-white
cat (which is oddly rigid in its pose, LOL)? And the story about it
was that the cat's parents had been playing in a toxic waste site and
got chromosome damage or something?

I have a funny story about that picture. It's kind of sick, but I
think enough years have passed that I won't be tarred and feathered
for telling this. Remember that picture of the hapless tourist
standing on the observation deck of the World Trade Center, while a
plane in the background heads straight for the building? Supposedly,
the camera somehow made it intact through the collapse of the building
and was found in the rubble - and then supposedly, someone developed
the film and that's what was on it.

Anyway, people started doing variations of that picture, showing the
same guy in all sorts of historic disasters (Mount St. Helens, the
Hindenberg, etc), just before it blew. I kept getting all these emails
with links to the various photos. And in the midst of this, someone
posted a link to a photo of the guy with the enormous cat, standing
on the observation tower of the WTC, with the plane in the background,
etc. I don't know, that just struck me as hilariously funny.

There's a website that has all those photos, which can be accessed
via the snopes page on the "guy on the WTC" picture.

Joyce

Next thing you know, we'll have another flurry of "cruelty"
protests over the "Bonsai" kittens!  (That student joke is
probably still around on the web, too - although the
"students" involved are probably pushing forty by now.)