The Top 15 Other Ways to Tell When Spring is Coming

15> Joey Buttafuoco's plummage becomes more colorful and Heidi Fleiss' buttocks become red and enlarged.

14> Jenny McCarthy switches from fur bikini to string bikini.

13> Your cat rolls surface-to-air missiles into position against mockingbirds.

12> The year's first appearance of the Dallas Cowboys before a grand jury.

11> Minneapolis weather forecast downgraded from "really friggin' cold" to "extremely cold."

10> Rush Limbaugh takes off the wool flag and wraps himself in a cotton one.

9> Seasonally correct Dennis Rodman switches back to white pumps and gloves.

8> A warm, gentle funnel cloud picks up the first Tulsa double-wide of the season and drops it near Wichita.

7> TV's Ellen comes out of the closet and doesn't see her shadow.

6> A young man's fancy turns to compulsion to hump everything in sight.

5> All across America -- single women start shaving their legs again.

4> AOL members who joined in December are finally able to get a connection.

3> If Darryl Strawberry stumbles out of a bar and scratches himself, we got us an early spring training.

2> NRA offers reward for carcass of first robin.

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