Selected-By: cierhart@oeonline.com (Otis Viles) The Usenet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was: > Please O Faboo Oracle Most Wise, whose boots are shiny with the > grovelings of many, I ask thee...... > > Why don't sheep shrink in the rain? > > -Most Humble of Supplicants And in response, thus spake the Oracle: } Ewe have asked and I wool answer: sheep shrink not from rain, } for shearers shirk their chores when sunshine vanishes. } Unshorn sheep need not seek shelter, since their pelts repel } the pelting pellets of precipitation's pour. Porous yes, but } pour oil on troubled waters, and the pores are full of lanolin. } } You owe the Oracle a shank of mutton.