From: Michael DeHaan Date: 2004-12-19T08:39:53+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby is like baby Alpaca yarn... An Alpalca yarn? Once a farmer in Inner Mongolia had an Alpaca named Fred and a Duck named Type. The duck just went swimming and the water was very cold, so the Alpalca said to the Duck "Duck, would you not like to have some socks?" and the duck agreed. The Alpalca took some of his yarn and made some socks for the duck and ... Ok, this is getting nowhere.