June 03, 2004

• Those babies know something . . something eeeevil . . look at 'em pretending to be so _uninvolved_ . . . devil babies of the Rand corporation? Functional cyborg offshoots of the Motorola black ops project? Aaaaiiiiighhh! /runs
• did you not see those faces in the clouds? the obvious interactions? in fact, i'm wondering about the whole sequencing of those shots and the symbolic, not to mention sublimal messages therein.
• [no banana]
• aw, marx, not even for nanner puddin'?
• I ran a few basic filters over these images, and I think you'll be surprised by the results. Imagine my shock when I ran a common shapeshifter-detecting filter over the puppies. And then! Extrapolating the invisibility metadata from the JPG of the clouds... Proof of alien existence? I'll leave that up to you to decide. After a lot of searching on the net, I found the terrifying original of the seemingly innocuous image of the sun... Hidden deep within MJ12 files! Cute babies though.
• even the title of this post is suspicious - "sleepy puppies", "cute babies" . . "happy sunshine"?? Every noun has an adjective right before it! Coincidence?! I think not!
• *flees*
• Are those clouds, or are they Chemical Trails?
• Why is SideDish running? He must know something baaaaaaaaaad is about to happen. It's a plot. Danger! Panic! Scary things! Flee! RUN SIDEDISH RUN!! (heh heh--give him a good head start, then hose 'em with the banana syrup) That'll teach him to act all cheery. Back to your regularly scheduled conspiracy
• *returns to insist i'm a SHE* *flees again*
• SideDish, why oh why are you exposing yr participation in the dreaded female conspiracy??? now the banana monsters of doom will be knocking at yr door...
• *returns to insist i'm a THEY* *flees once more* *out of breath*
• And why are there no black babies in there? I'll tell you why!! Oppression!! Keep the black brother... er baby down!!!! And how about kittens? Are they not cute enough to be included? If thats not racist then i dont know what else is! I smell a conspiracy!!!
• Right on Ramix! Species discrimination! Kittens are way cuter than babies, and they don't scream or poop their pants. Or maybe they're not eeeeeevil enough? BWAHAHAHAAA!
• *screams, poops his pants*
• Um, ramix, I'm thinkin' you might mean 'speciesist' about the kittens.
• HEY! I wrote MY comment on ramix's post LONG before shinything or pete_best! I got a baaaad feeling about this.... Something is very, very wrong.
• *cue scary music as the babies picture fades in*
• I think that sun picture gave me skin cancer.
• Kittens of color.
• But...where are the spots? Where are the stripes?
• no you fools! The cats are mere diversion! It's the *babies!* The B-A-B-I-E-S!!
• Is this a good time to mention the origins of Soylent Green?
• Hey goetter, that's the kind of kitty I have! 'Cept she ain't no damn pinko commie kitty. She's a red blooded true blue 'merican kitty.
• Let loose the dreaded zombie female battlecats! HA! we have exposed you Sidedish! No more can you hide behind an ambigious gender-free name. We recognize you for what you are--A fluffy puppy, happy sunshine female cloud monger! You can't fool us with your cute baskets of iddle bitty fuffy wuffys anymore. We're onto you. *Sniffs. Recoils, gagging. DAMMIT PETE_BEST! Get in there and take off those pants! This is EXACTLY why we can't have nice things.
• We're due for another kitten this fall. The Maine Coon used to be a strong contender, but after years of longhaired cat maintenance I think we're going shorthaired again. Probably Bengal (spots! stripes!), possibly Abyssinian. (Personally, I like shelter kitties, but this one's not for me.)
• Ooooh but Goetter the Maine Coons are soooooo sweeeet!!!!
• And yes they do shed but they don't require constant brushing like other long haired cats.
• Ah, memories... By far, the best cat I ever had was a Maine Coon. The smartest, the most beautiful, the most gentle--she'd let you do anything to her and wouldn't get upset. She'd even fetch which would amaze our guests. She was the most popular cat in the neighborhood. OMG, I miss her so much :(. Her name was Indy (short for Indica) and she was superior. I was lucky to have her for all of a year. I never had an animal that actually impacted my life like she did. Got run over by a big truck.(:(
• Oh... that's terrible, Darshon. *pat pat*
• Bummer, Dar. Hard to lose a special fur-person. I've been without a real cat for several years now. Our old formerly-outside I'm-a-mouser-NOT-a-pet cat is healthy enough, but doesn't do anything but eat, sleep, and stink. She always was extremely aloof and now is a positive hermit in her little heated box in the garage. The running joke around here is that it will probably take several days before we notice she's dead since she never moves and stinks like the dead already. She's the most foul cat I've ever been around, and been so since kittenhood. Professional vet opinion: she's a filthy pig. Sad to say, she will not be missed. But she was a heckofa mouser in her time and has earned her kibbles till she croaks. Anyway, I'm a fool for marmalade males. The ones I've had have all been affectionate mogies that were just absolute characters--even the older raunchy toms we adopted late in their flea-ridden muchly abscessed life were delightful (after being neutered) I think Bengals and Coons and Abbys are ALL wonderful breeds with distinctive personalities. It's so hard to choose. But I'm pretty sure this next kitty will be just an ol' yallar tim-tom.
• SideDish, you forgot bunnies!
• Darshon, that's so sad. Are you going to get another kitty soon? BlueHorse, love those orange tigers! My first cat was a lovely orange guy with deep, orange eyes. He was a charmer, but like Darshon I only had him a year before he was killed by a car. My recently-deceased monster was an enormous farm-born tortie with a distinctive orange and black, almost checkerboard face. I've rarely seen markings like hers. She was funny and sweet and very bold, and lived to be a ripe (smelly) old 20. She was a terrible mouser, but an excellent birder :(, and was also a great fetch cat. She even chased dogs away. Goetter, have you ever met any Burmese kitties? I have a special weakness for them. They're solid, friendly and peaceful, but also love to play and are very smart. Sooooz, tanks for the bunneeeeeees! Oolong and baby Yuebing are the best.
• Hey did you see the cool bunny mascots they have over on that Other Filter? Um, never mind. I'm going to go eat waffles.
• Shiny, no, I've never known one. (I get Burmese confused with Birman, or whatever that breed that looks like a Himalayan with a 'capey' coat is called.) Orange cats rock.
• Have had a few cats since Indy, but none compare. All of my cats have been long-hairs and beautiful.
• My current cat is a Maine Coon, who was rescued from the streets when he had been abandoned. He is so smart, humorous, social and wonderful - thinks he's a little person, and I do too. Unfortunately, he has really bad asthma, and we live in the spot with the worst air quality in the US. At this point, it's hard to tell whether the asthma will kill him first or the steroids that keep him breathing. But, I'll treasure him as long as I have him. Sorry, but he just told me that it's time to go watch TV.
• Sorry, but he just told me that it's time to go watch TV. Heh. We're looking after my brother-in-law's cat right now. She gets bossy if we don't go to bed on time, and tries to herd us upstairs. Funny critters.