Part of the ball

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Originally posted by Mark Padgett
For those of you who have never visited the Pacific Northwest, please come during our annual rain festival. It runs from January through December each year.

Notice that my smilie at the top of my post is wearing "rainglasses".

This is probably why the OU and OSU mascosts are "water related"....Ducks & Beavers. BTW, the Evergreen State College (my son's alma mater) mascot is a Geoduck....some sort of slug that likes water.