For the Newbie ListMember Who Asked What the Deal Was With the Pigs: Hilary & Camilla have already provided you with the basics: the pig aristocracy, Porky and Porquetta, and those adventurous piggy "angels",the Cincy Fliers, and I'm sure you've already heard about, and seen in action, thanks to Hans, Don's fierce Arkansas Razorbacks. Last but definitely not least,John Bjork's Parkinsaw Chronicles is required reading.Now we turn to simpler matters. As the "mother" of the Connecticut pigs, I would like to present their story.They are the new kids on the block, the newbies, so to speak.There are 8 of them, and they once lived next door to Home Economics/media guru, Martha Stewart, in beautiful suburban Westport, CT. They fled CT to seek political asylum in Parkinsaw, fearing porcine persecution and Martha's frying pan. They arrived in Parkinsaw via Parcel post, having failed in their efforts to fly there, being wingless, and having been kicked off a commercial flight after raising a ruckus about not being able to sit next to the Pope (but that's another story.)This is why they are now known as the Parkinsaw Parcel Post Pigs, or PPPpigs.Once they arrived at the (Pig)Sanctuary,lacking discipline and being away from home for the first time, all hell broke loose. They were lured into the underground PolkaNet Bar & Grille by a Boar from N.Y.C.(a former shock-jock talk show host,)and began pursuing a life of fast women,high times, countless bottles of LevoLager, and endless all-night polkaing to the music of the Six Fat Dutchman.They were saved from this life of debauchery by Nails Noogan, ex-Marine,who pignappped them back to the Sanctuary,de-programmed them, and set up a boot camp. This worked for 7 little pigs, but not for the 8th,named D.D.DeVille, who went AWOL, turned against his fellow porkers, and joined the Boar from N.Y.C., who was by this time was traveling with an accomplice, a turn-coat Arkansas Razorback. This Traitorious Trio, as they are now known, are, even as we speak,roaming the world, leaving a trail of malicious mischief (and wrinkled Twinkee wrappers and empty LevoLager bottles), sullying the good name of pigs everywhere.(Kind of long, but you did ask.) Til ALL Pigs Fly. Carole Hercun _____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Free instant messaging and more at http://messenger.yahoo.com