ditties mott man one hen two ducks three squawking geese four limerick oysters five corpulent porpoises six pairs of don alvaro tweezers seven thousand masedonians in full battle array eight brass monkeys from the ancient sacred crypts of egypt nine apathetic sympathetic diabetic old men with a marked propensity for procrastination and sloth ten lyrical spherical diabolical denizens of the deep who all quay around the quo of the quivy of the quarry all at the same time. thank you. 011130 ... Strideo In days of old they brought joy to the scattered cosmos. When they came, planets rejoiced and cities reveled in festivities. They where the troubadours of the stars, the minstrels of the galactic empire, and the intoners of melodies so deep and earnest, so profound, they bade Kings and Qweens to feast among the common folk and to once again know what life was. Sadly, when their star went out and they were gone, the universe seemed more empty than before and the grand macrocosm seemed like . . . . . well, vacant dry empty space. ... 030721 what's it to you? who go blather from