Fashion Board 4-6-04 to 5-7-04

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by evenodds
Last night, I am up working a little late in bed, installing a new program onto my laptop and watching the late game. The OM falls asleep ridiculously early, so it's just me and the seven pounds of fur and attitude known as the oddcat.

Since we (hi Paigow!) are childless, the closest thing we (hi Paigow!) experience to sleepless nights comes from the furball of love and her ocassional bouts of kitty insomnia.

Hour after hour after hour pass with her walking on the bed, standing on our pillows, wailing at the top of her lungs. The OM, at this point, is able to remain alseep. I cannot fall asleep because of the walking, standing, and wailing.

I change rooms, figuring as long as I am awake, I might as well finish some work. This only increases the volume of the wailing because now we are separated. She herds me back to bed at what is now 4 am (and I still have not closed my eyes).

All the commotion finally wakes the sleeping giant, who as luck would have it, needs to get up at 5:30 for an earlier than absolutely fucking necessary meeting.

Of course, once she has accomplished her goal of waking us both, she goes to sleep.

Today is going to be a very long, very irritating day.

That's why you gotta get a Maine Coon Cat. The fuckers don't make so much as a peep. Its something about the breed...

My folks have a half Simamese Cat who never shuts up. I was at there place over the weekend. Damn thing would just sit on the nightstand near the bed and look at me and meow in my face. I don't what the hell it wanted. When I tried to pet it, it scratched me and ran away. Then an hour or so later it would come back, sit there and do the same thing. Siamese cats suck. I've never seen one I liked.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Nobody watched the new Chris Rock special?

I did! Salon has an article on it here.




















"If you've never contemplated murder, you ain't never been in love."

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
When you are on a "date," do you ever get overly frustrated when It won't put the lotion into the bucket?

"Oh, wait a minute, you mean that great big fat person?"

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
[Chris Rock] TIVOd. use spoiler space.

I laughed, I cried, yada yada yada.

***** SPOILER *******






"If you like pussy, marriage is not for you!"



Yeah, this really gives away the ending. The whole bit leading up to and including "one, two, three licks, 'you hard yet? Put it in, I've got laundry to fold.'" was painfully funny. Literally -- my face hurt.

[barely_legal]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
That's why you gotta get a Maine Coon Cat. The fuckers don't make so much as a peep. Its something about the breed...

My folks have a half Simamese Cat who never shuts up. I was at there place over the weekend. Damn thing would just sit on the nightstand near the bed and look at me and meow in my face. I don't what the hell it wanted. When I tried to pet it, it scratched me and ran away. Then an hour or so later it would come back, sit there and do the same thing. Siamese cats suck. I've never seen one I liked.

I have two full-blooded Siamese and they never make any noise. Don't insult the whole breed. They are incredibly intelligent animals. And unlike several Maine Coons that I have known, my Siamese cats have never once urinated or defecated anywhere outside of their litterbox. That is the sign of a good pet.

I think you watched The Lady and the Tramp too often in your youth and developed an unnatural fear of singing siamese cats. They're so mean to Lady! Mean mean kitties!

[notcasesensitive]

Jared Leto has removed himself from my crush list (okay, he was an old entry and I haven't updated in a while) just based on this photo alone -



Egads.

[evenodds]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
That's why you gotta get a Maine Coon Cat. The fuckers don't make so much as a peep. Its something about the breed...

My folks have a half Simamese Cat who never shuts up. I was at there place over the weekend. Damn thing would just sit on the nightstand near the bed and look at me and meow in my face. I don't what the hell it wanted. When I tried to pet it, it scratched me and ran away. Then an hour or so later it would come back, sit there and do the same thing. Siamese cats suck. I've never seen one I liked.

Silly, you were sleeping in the cat's room.

As you can tell from the story, the OddCat is Siamese. Usually, she's incredibly loving and affectionate. From time to time, she irritates the fuck out of me. Last night was one of those times.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by barely_legal
I have two full-blooded Siamese and they never make any noise. Don't insult the whole breed. They are incredibly intelligent animals. And unlike several Maine Coons that I have known, my Siamese cats have never once urinated or defecated anywhere outside of their litterbox. That is the sign of a good pet.

I think you watched The Lady and the Tramp too often in your youth and developed an unnatural fear of singing siamese cats. They're so mean to Lady! Mean mean kitties!

Please, God, do not let this degenerate into a "my breed of cat is better than yours" debate. Oh shit, it already has. You cat lovers realize that the likely end of this conversation line will involve people discussing their hatred of the entire species, right? And then the dog vs. cat debate. Please. Stop. Now.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Please, God, do not let this degenerate into a "my breed of cat is better than yours" debate. Oh shit, it already has. You cat lovers realize that the likely end of this conversation line will involve people discussing their hatred of the entire species, right? And then the dog vs. cat debate. Please. Stop. Now.

Purebred cats are for fatties!

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Please, God, do not let this degenerate into a "my breed of cat is better than yours" debate. Oh shit, it already has. You cat lovers realize that the likely end of this conversation line will involve people discussing their hatred of the entire species, right? And then the dog vs. cat debate. Please. Stop. Now.

Cats ween their kittens at 4 or 5 weeks; not like some of these sicko moms who breast feed for a year and a half.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
And then the dog vs. cat debate.

Dogs are better, but cats are passable if you use enough garlic to overcome the gamey taste.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by evenodds
Silly, you were sleeping in the cat's room.

As you can tell from the story, the OddCat is Siamese. Usually, she's incredibly loving and affectionate. From time to time, she irritates the fuck out of me. Last night was one of those times.

Speaking of irriatations, they've finally begun work on my street.

It took them six months to do the street next to ours, and in their defense, they are ripping everything out and repaving (when you look at the cross section there's brick on the bottom layer of street) the street, adding huge drainage pipes, redoing the water, electricity, gas and sewer, and redoing the curb AND up to eight feet of my driveway. Considering that I have a cess-pool full of mud at the base of my driveway and my curb is non-existant, I'm not adverse to their redoing the drainage on my street. Ultimately, it will be better. However. They've been dicking around with signage and set-up for about four months, and I have a bet with myself that they're going to finish the three miles of major highway bypass at 290 before they finish with my two blocks of street. Anyhow, this weekend, they got serious and put up the barracades dividing the street in half and they delivered the big ass pipes that presumably will divert water from my driveway and curbside to wherever water goes to when it leaves the driveway and curbside, and now we're a (temporary) one-way street. I think that they actually may be starting work, because there was a guy with a backhoe this morning scraping away concrete. The problem? No one is really clear on which way is the one way. So we have a lot of cars ducking into the "closed" section of street trying to avoid hitting each other. This is going to be a problem when half the street is gone, and ducking into the driveways will require precision steering. I thought I knew which way the one way was, but this morning, the guy with the backhoe waved me in the other direction, so I'm as baffled as anyone else. It's going to be a long six months. One of my neighbors told me that some contractor told her that the project will take ten days, once they get it started. I had a long, hard laugh when I heard that. We'll be lucky if it ends by the end of the calendar year.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Purebred cats are for fatties!

Who went to second-tier law schools!

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Speaking of irriatations, they've finally begun work on my street.

It took them six months to do the street next to ours, and in their defense, they are ripping everything out and repaving (when you look at the cross section there's brick on the bottom layer of street) the street, adding huge drainage pipes, redoing the water, electricity, gas and sewer, and redoing the curb AND up to eight feet of my driveway. Considering that I have a cess-pool full of mud at the base of my driveway and my curb is non-existant, I'm not adverse to their redoing the drainage on my street. Ultimately, it will be better. However. They've been dicking around with signage and set-up for about four months, and I have a bet with myself that they're going to finish the three miles of major highway bypass at 290 before they finish with my two blocks of street. Anyhow, this weekend, they got serious and put up the barracades dividing the street in half and they delivered the big ass pipes that presumably will divert water from my driveway and curbside to wherever water goes to when it leaves the driveway and curbside, and now we're a (temporary) one-way street. I think that they actually may be starting work, because there was a guy with a backhoe this morning scraping away concrete. The problem? No one is really clear on which way is the one way. So we have a lot of cars ducking into driveways trying to avoid hitting each other. This is going to be a problem when half the street is gone, and ducking into the driveways will require steering. I thought I knew which way the one way was, but this morning, the guy with the backhoe waved me in the other direction, so I'm as baffled as anyone else. It's going to be a long six months. One of my neighbors told me that some contractor told her that the project will take ten days, once they get it started. I had a long, hard laugh when I heard that. We'll be lucky if it ends by the end of the calendar year.

Is the guy with the backhoe hot?
(Just trying to get the topic into ncs-approved territory.)

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by barely_legal
I have two full-blooded Siamese and they never make any noise. Don't insult the whole breed. They are incredibly intelligent animals. And unlike several Maine Coons that I have known, my Siamese cats have never once urinated or defecated anywhere outside of their litterbox. That is the sign of a good pet.

I think you watched The Lady and the Tramp too often in your youth and developed an unnatural fear of singing siamese cats. They're so mean to Lady! Mean mean kitties!

You calling me a feline racist?