Posts on comments books on other lists reminds me that there is a new venue in town for collecting funny (inadvertently or otherwise) visitor feedback and questions. Marc Abrahams, who edits the _Annals of Improbable Research_ (the Mad magazine of science) and hosts the annual Ig Nobel awards ceremony, has asked me to look into putting together a column of real-life visitor responses. The working title is "Funny You Should Ask," and it is envisioned as a parallel to the great Richard Lederer's grammar/language errors column. The ground rules are: 1. It has to be true, not an urban myth. 2. It has to be something a visitor really, truly asked, or wrote, in response to or in evaluation of a museum, zoo or park experience. Things they intended to be funny are fine. Things that are unintentionally funny are even better. 3. It can be as anonymized (is that a word? it is now) as needed, and your name/institution will not appear if you do not want them to. We don't want to violate privacy or confidentiality. 4. Insofar as possible, we want only one or at most two degrees of separation--i.e., you directly took the question or comment, or work with the person who did. No unsubstantiated rumors. If you want to join in, please send me a note off-list to [log in to unmask] We are hoping that this goes up as a Web feature as well as a regular feature in the print version of AIR. If you want to check out AIR, go to www.improbable.com. OK, back to our regular schedule of programming.... Cheers, Sally ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).