Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!

[Fugee]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

kitty story

Take the kitten (and a relatively fresh kitten poop) to the vet ASAP. A lot of stray kitties have worms. I believe some feline worms can be transmitted to humans. Toddlers especially.

And once you've paid a vet bill, consider the cat yours.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Fugee

Take the kitten (and a relatively fresh kitten poop) to the vet ASAP. A lot of stray kitties have worms. I believe some feline worms can be transmitted to humans. Toddlers especially.

And once you've paid a vet bill, consider the cat yours.

I figure this is just another chance for a valuable life lesson. Free pussy is great, but you never know what you might get from it.

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

I figure this is just another chance for a valuable life lesson. Free pussy is great, but you never know what you might get from it.

In all seriousness, get the cat checked. Also think about the cat dung/small child issue. Cat feces can carry all sorts of things, including toxoplasmosis, which I managed to contract when I were but a lad. It led to retinal scarring, which (as I was informed many years later by an eye doctor as I quietly shat myself), had it been in a different location, could have blinded me in both eyes. Admittedly this is very rare and you have probably already thought of this, but still.

http://www.vet.cornell.edu/fhc/brochures/toxo.html

Also, stop putting your telephone number up in dodgy neighborhoods.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by ironweed

In all seriousness, get the cat checked. Also think about the cat dung/small child issue. Cat feces can carry all sorts of things, including toxoplasmosis, which I managed to contract when I were but a lad. It led to retinal scarring, which (as I was informed many years later by an eye doctor as I quietly shat myself), had it been in a different location, could have blinded me in both eyes. Admittedly this is very rare and you have probably already thought of this, but still.

http://www.vet.cornell.edu/fhc/brochures/toxo.html

Also, stop putting your telephone number up in dodgy neighborhoods.

I'm not sure what your incontinence issues have to do with this, but if we have received no further calls by the end of the week, we will take the cat in for all the tests and to get it neutered, etc. Good bye, money! Bye!

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Excellent:

SAN ANTONIO -- Spurs coach Gregg Popovich showed exactly how fearful he was of Shaquille O'Neal's threats to "make the Spurs pay" for intentionally fouling him during last season's first-round playoff loss.

Popovich had Michael Finley bear hug O'Neal on the game's very first possession, prompting a ripple of laughter from both benches.

"Loved it," said Steve Nash. "Classic Pop. We expect that out of him."

Shaq, in turn, said the world by now should expect bombastic comments such as the ones he made over the summer about Popovich being "cowardly" for intentionally fouling him, a strategy that helped the Spurs send the Suns home in five games.

"When I do things and say things, it's all about marketing," he said. "Don't forget, I've got my master's and I'm working on my doctorate. I've been doing it for a long time."

He wasn't sure about Popovich's intentions Wednesday night, however, until he looked down at the Spurs' bench and found Popovich grinning at him and flashing two thumbs-up, all of which Shaq returned.

"Life's too short not to have fun," said Popovich tersely, in a less lighthearted mood after the Spurs' 103-98 season-opening loss.

ESPN.com

[Fugee]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

but if we have received no further calls by the end of the week, we will take the cat in for all the tests and to get it neutered, etc. Good bye, money! Bye!

Until then, be fanatical about the hypothetical child washing her hands every time she touches the kitten. I'm serious about kids getting worms from pets (not to mention the more serious things 'weed mentioned). And I'm sure the vet will suggest it, but get the kitten tested for feline leukemia and feline HIV. And after the bundle you will spend at the vet, make the kitten a permanently indoor kitten.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Wikipedia says I can "wear a buttoned shirt with...a fly-front placket" instead of a shirt that fastens with studs. Is this accurate? I wore that type of shirt to my wedding, but wore a long tie at my wedding, so no one could tell if I had studs in my shirt or not. At an upcoming event, I will be wearing a bow tie. Can I wear the shirt with a fly front (a flap that covers the buttons)?

Also, cummerbund or waistcoat?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

Wikipedia says I can "wear a buttoned shirt with...a fly-front placket" instead of a shirt that fastens with studs. Is this accurate? I wore that type of shirt to my wedding, but wore a long tie at my wedding, so no one could tell if I had studs in my shirt or not. At an upcoming event, I will be wearing a bow tie. Can I wear the shirt with a fly front (a flap that covers the buttons)?

Also, cummerbund or waistcoat?

formal, or are you a clown for Halloween again?

[taxwonk]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

Wikipedia says I can "wear a buttoned shirt with...a fly-front placket" instead of a shirt that fastens with studs. Is this accurate? I wore that type of shirt to my wedding, but wore a long tie at my wedding, so no one could tell if I had studs in my shirt or not. At an upcoming event, I will be wearing a bow tie. Can I wear the shirt with a fly front (a flap that covers the buttons)?

Also, cummerbund or waistcoat?

Fly-front or French plackets are definitely cool. And cummerbund or nothing. Especially with a French placket.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by ironweed

It led to retinal scarring.

I read this as "rectal scarring".

(as I was informed many years later by an eye doctor as I quietly shat myself)

And this is what I though confirmed it.

[Not Bob]

It is quite the bummer when one makes an impulse purchase of a chocolate chip cookie at the coffee place around the corner (when one makes one's caffeine run a bit earlier than usual because one is falling asleep while watching video of an allegedly injured Piggly-Wiggly patron walking her dog around and around and around the block), and then one discovers -- at the much-anticipated first bite -- that one has actually purchased an oatmeal raisin cookie.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally Posted by Not Bob

It is quite the bummer when one makes an impulse purchase of a chocolate chip cookie at the coffee place around the corner (when one makes one's caffeine run a bit earlier than usual because one is falling asleep while watching video of an allegedly injured Piggly-Wiggly patron walking her dog around and around and around the block), and then one discovers -- at the much-anticipated first bite -- that one has actually purchased an oatmeal raisin cookie.

Are you going to choke on it too?

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally Posted by Not Bob

It is quite the bummer when one makes an impulse purchase of a chocolate chip cookie at the coffee place around the corner (when one makes one's caffeine run a bit earlier than usual because one is falling asleep while watching video of an allegedly injured Piggly-Wiggly patron walking her dog around and around and around the block), and then one discovers -- at the much-anticipated first bite -- that one has actually purchased an oatmeal raisin cookie.

I'll take it. Oatmeal raisin is my preferred cookie.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally Posted by bold_n_brazen

I'll take it. Oatmeal raisin is my preferred cookie.

Me too. I find that oatmeal rasin is harder to fuck up than chocolate chip, which often gets over cooked.

[pernsky no account]

Originally Posted by Not Bob

It is quite the bummer when one makes an impulse purchase of a chocolate chip cookie at the coffee place around the corner (when one makes one's caffeine run a bit earlier than usual because one is falling asleep while watching video of an allegedly injured Piggly-Wiggly patron walking her dog around and around and around the block), and then one discovers -- at the much-anticipated first bite -- that one has actually purchased an oatmeal raisin cookie.

Shulda had a black & white cookie. Nothing mixes better than vanilla and chocolate........If people would only look to the black & white cookie in this election season all of are problems would be solved.