----Original Message-----
   >From:     	"Aaron Bauer" <aaron.bauer@villanova.edu>
   >To:         	Scott Eiler <seiler@eilertech.com>
   >Subject:     	shellfishmania
   >Date:    	Monday, 01 December, 2003 14:08
   >
   >I was pleased to see the giant lobster of Shediac in your travel photos. 
   >I recently shot many pictures of this mighty crustacean myself. For your 
   >amusement I attach a photo of myself at South of the Border, America's 
   >premier Mexican-themed kitsch roadside attraction.

And a mighty photo it was.  I'm glad to see you branch out to investigate ancient reptiles.  I'm also impressed you went through so many of *my* photos that you saw the giant lobster of Shediac.

You'll be glad to know that a Web search on "aaron bauer hagfish" revealed a lot of the scholarly papers you wrote during the 1980s.  I still think of the Hagfish Christmas Carol you wrote.  I think I still have the whole thing memorized:

	Yuletide cheer I'll spread right here,
	As if it were a slime trail.
	Just tie me in knots 'cause I look like some snots
	As you place me in a slime pail.
	So have a nice break.  Though I look like a snake,
	I shall remain ever,
		The Hagfish.

I myself was recently moved to rewrite "Jingle Bells" in honor of the town of Kankakee, Illinois, which I passed through during Thanksgiving vacation:

	Marching on toward death,
	Across the fields I go,
	Defying all the wind
	And the coldness and the snow.
	I've come to Kankakee
	Because I am perverse.
	You may think it's bad,
	But trust me, I've seen worse.

But anyway, enough bad poetry for one night...