YSaC, Vol. 561: Whoever gets this one can stay after the show and clean the erasers.
More cat math!
free spayed cats
Hello I have 5 cats 3 I am keeping two I am looking for loving home for I have thought about finding a home for the third one but she is a special needs cat anyhow they are all three females and they have all had their rabies vacination and have been fixed so the initial cost has been covered so all I am asking is to please love a keep the cat you choose and if not give them back to me.I can meet you with thecat of your choice in ######## to ######### and ######## or ### my husband works there and can meet you before or after work M-F I will do cam video of the cats on yahoo if u wish call me at ###########. Thanks Barbara yes that is a toll free number so now there are no excuses;o).ok the two I am looking for a home for one is silver with a silver velvet nose her name is (Silver velvet)theotherm is her baby she is all black with a black nose she looks like a baby panter she is real shiney her name is (Grace).
OK, let’s work this out. She has 5 cats 3. I think that may be like Timbuk3 or 3 Mustaphas 3. Or possibly UB40, I’m not sure.
Of those 5 cats, she’s keeping two, and looking for homes for two. All three of the two cats she’s looking for homes for are females. She will do cam video of the cats on yahoo if u wish, but I suspect that may cost extra, especially in light of yesterday’s glut of job offers.
Of the 2 cats out of 5 cats 3, one is silver with a silver velvet nose. Are you sure that’s not actually a sculpture you have there? Assuming it is a real cat, is there some reason you have named it (and the otherm) in parentheses?
I should point out that I am aware it’s possible to interpret the first line in a less nutty fashion, but since she didn’t punctuate it in any way, I assert that I am free to do so however I wish, and I choose to do so in the funniest manner possible.
Thanks for the brain hurty, J.Z.!
Ow! Cat Math is first period today. Okay, divide the 5 cats 3 by the square root of silver then find the common denominator — oh, look at the time! Gotta to to work. Whew! Solve for X, everyone!
X = more than she wants……..
In Soviet Russia X solves for you!
X=10 no wait 15 no 24
Aww forget it…I’ll just buy a dog.
X = …pudding?
Aww crap, not again. I think this calculator has it out for me.
I really want YOUR calculator.
I’m thinking Sarajean’s calculator may just be a snack pack.
Then again, I wish my calculator was a snack pack.
It’s a snack pack abacus. In case I get hungry while doing my sums.
Of course, if you eat some of the beads, the answer changes. On reflection, this strikes me as a perfectly suitable instrument on which to compute cat math!
Why is it that I now have an image of an ababcus that has those candies from candy necklaces for beads?
Calculus: hard, but tasty!
I R in ur abacus eating ur maths
/lolcat
Sorry folks, the answer is:
X = (Herbert Hoover)²
So the answer is NOT x=(-bacon±√(〖bacon〗^2-4(aardvark)(combine harvester)))/2aardvark
Because when I work it out, it ends up as x= Oust/Friskies
That’s it, I’m dropping this class.
Hurray for the Quadradic Equation!
Also, if we substitue into the non-simplified answer for x:
(Herbert Hoover)² = Bacon + Grease(Bacon)² + Gin(Bacon)³
Now, solve for bacon. Hint, you can divide both sides by Herbert Hoover.
All I get from that is a new recipe for a Bacontini Taco.
That is right, Bacontini is da solution to all cat math. Because if you drink enough Bacontini you no longer care about da cat math.
Just remember ladies, Bacontini is also answer to love’s equation.
The Bacontini Taco: Killing two birds while being stoned.
I thought that “x-1” represented the special needs cat.
“x-2” represents the neutered ones.
I’ve dropped cat math. I don’t get it. It’s like the rules keep changing on me or something.
ASU was never known for its Cat Math department. You had the deck stacked against you from the beginning.
This is true. Oh, if only I had tried to get into a GOOD SCHOOL…..
Yeah, UofA has an excellent Cat Math program (after all, they’re the Wildcats, amirite?!).
I wish to be referred to as “(Colleen) in MA” henceforth.
Not.A.Panter? But she is shiney and I just can’t resist shiney things. Oh my.
And the other kitten has a nose of silver velvet, which is weird. All my cats have noses made of skin. I’m a little jealous.
To be fair sarajean, your cat is rather pantery.
Edit: Crap, I even TRIED to spell panther incorrectly and still messed up and spelled it right. Should be fixed now.
He may be “pantery” in appearance, but in behavior he’s like a fur covered slug. I have to check every once and a while to make sure he’s still breathing.
He sounds like he’d get along pretty well with Mini-Taco.
Unfortunately he’s terrified of small children(and large children), men, most women, loud noises, and some home furnishings. He spends most of the day in my bed hiding under the covers. He does make an amusing chirping noise when he purrs, a little like a squeaky toy.
My cat would rule the world if she were not afraid of the doorbell, vacuum cleaner, mylar ballons, and anyone other than my husband and me.
(The mylar ballons one will keep her in hiding until one goes and finds her, bring her to the room the alien beings were in, and show her they have returned to their home planet.)
My favorite cat growing up was so close to world domination. She wasn’t scared of anything, and was one of the best vermin control cats I’ve ever met; however, I think she had a depth perception problem that came and went.
Every once in a while I’d hear a loud bang from the laundry room and would have to go check and see what happened, as usual I’d only find her sitting on the floor looking back at me as if nothing strange was going on. One day I caught her in the act of trying to jump from the floor up to the top of the dryer only to bang into the side of it because she underjumped. She would USUALLY make the jump on the second attempt.
She was also very easily distra- OH SHINY *wanders off*
My current one doesn’t want to dominate the world so much as he wants to be the friend of everyone in it. Particularly if they have food, but even if they don’t. He’s the feline equivalent of the big-personality type who comes into a room asking, “Did you miss me?” I find those people annoying, but it’s amusing in a pet.
It takes my sister’s cat Bad Kitty about three or four tries to get up on the washer. He is nearly tailess (he has a “bunny tail” as my niece calls it) and weighs about five hundred pounds, if the cat food wasn’t on top of the washer I don’t think he would even attempt the jump. Usually you hear;
“THUMP!” scritch-scritch-scritch,
–pause–
“THUMP!” scritch-scritch-scritch,
–pause–
“THUMP!” scritch-scritch-scritch, and then a muffled crunching noise when he finally gets on top.
If he wasn’t so incredibly lazy, he might have a chance at world domination. He even scares my sister’s Great Dane/Golden Retriever mix, who is the most easy-going dog I’ve ever met.
Sarajean, I think your “fur covered slug” must be related to one of mine. she also scared of everything, including her own shadow.
I think “Furry Slugs” might be a better band name than “Hidden Poo”.
Maybe they should tour together.
are we still adding the band names to that thread in the forum?
Wow, it really died in here all of a sudden…
Is that what that smell is? I just thought it was hidden poo.
Actually, the momentary quiet confirms for me what I suspected: people screw off all week and then run around madly on Friday, getting stuff done before the weekend. At least, that’s what I’ve observed from the people where I work. Quiet all morning, and in the early afternoon, and then at 4:30 everyone wakes up and wants you to do their sh*t first. Mmmm, procrastination.
Yes it did, what do you think caused it?
Cat math too hard? Time of day? Annoying page refreshes for no reason? (Well they’re annoying me at least)
Maybe it was from lack of Bacontini? Sorry ladies, Bacontini had to run around like da crazy person, trying to satisfy all those who clamor for Bacontini.
He is back now, for you to love.
(For help hearing the accent, go ahead and put a quick ‘a’ in Bacontini. Thus is it said, Baconatini. Say it outloud right now.)
cat+cat=cat HAHAHAHAHAH
Hmm, the accent my brain uses when confronted with the concept of “Baconatini” sounds like Sascha Baron Cohen’s ‘Signor Pirelli’ in ‘Sweeney Todd’. Is that what you were going for?
See, I kept hear some strange Jamaican-Italian-Luther Vandross mix.
That’s an interesting combo there Lurker. My brain can’t even figure out what that would sound like. Kind of like I wouldn’t be able to imagine a cotton-candy, cauliflower omelette. Ouch, my brain hurts.
Cotton candy… goood,
cauliflower… good,
omelette… gooood.
Yum.
Thanks, Joey.
A baby panter would fit right in here. I already have an old barker her name is (Cleo), a black pawer her name is (Bonnie) and a little squealer his name is (Hengry).
(Hengry) squeals with delight, living with all them women folk…..
We used to have a dog who was a panter his whole life.
I dunno; being a baby panter is likely to get you twenty years.
Wasn’t “The Panter” one of Batman’s arch enemies? I’m pretty sure Baby Panter was his son.
I thought that was Dick Tracy’s archenemy.
Right. The Batman villain was the Pantser.
That’s how Robin wound up with the particular outfit in which one used to see him.
Tom Lehrer reference FTW!
Base 8 is just like base 10 — if you’re missing two fingers.
…So you look at the 64’s.
64? How did 64 get into it?
Speaking of base 8, there are 10 kinds of people: those that understand binary, and those that don’t!
It won’t do you a bit of good to review math; it’s so simple, so very simple, that only a child can do it!
Bless her heart (and if you don’t think that’s a clever comment, see http://www.yousuckatcraigslist.com/?p=2758 )
If I had a nickel for everytime I’ve heard that during a conversation…I’d have a lot of nickels.
It’s the all-purpose insult-compliment(insuliment? complisult?) down here in the South, normally used to imply less-than-average intelligence.
Yeah, it’s the catch-all phrase that you can put after any insult so you can still smile in someone’s face while you stab them in the back.
“She’s dumb as a sack of hammers, bless her heart.”
“He’s ugly as the south end of a north bound mule, bless his heart.”
etc. 🙂
Pretty much. I mean it’s clear she really cares about the cats, which is sweet and lovely. She might be, you know, also a nut.
Actually, Barbara was the wife’s name of Timbuk3 (Corey cred?) . I got to meet them once for a minute or two and they were very nice people if a bit out there. 5 cats 3 being the new Timbuk3. I can totally see it.
The future’s so bright I gotta wear cats.
In Soviet Russia, cat wears you!
The cats are so shiney you gotta wear (shades.)
(Cue “Won’t Get Fooled Again”).
How exactly does cam video differ from non-cam video?
I think it has something to do with how the valves open and close. I want to know if it’s single-overhead or double-overhead, it doesn’t say.
It all depends on whether the video is shot at an angle or not.
But in any case, you should have your camera’s alignment checked every 50,000 miles of tape. Tapeless cameras will need to have the service done whenever your check engine light appears.
I wonder when they last had their lenses rotated, it could affect their film efficiency.
Changing their light filter every 30000 frames would, too.
I think I’ve figured this out — one of the cats stole the comma key from her computer’s keyboard, and she’s narrowed down the list of suspects to the two she’s giving away. Maybe the reason the black panter keeps panting is the key is stuck in its throat?
Hi I’m (Tacomagic) and I’m looking for a pair of 5 of 3 cats I can give them a good home as long as the three 2 of cats have all their shots are housetrained and don’t spontanously devour Mexican food whenever it is present thanks Bacontini also the 4 of the 5 of 3 paired cats should be orange and striped and named (Lion).
Damn you, Tacomagic! I was mere seconds from posting the first lion-related comment. =(
That’s why they call me SexyFingers.
Ok it isn’t why they call me that at all, but I need to justify it somehow.
I thought we called you Mister SexyFingers.
I mean they. They call you that. I don’t know anything about it. Why we’ve never even shared a hotel room, much less a bunk at summer camp. What?
That was a disturbing little detour.
Yeah Isaac, that got weird fast.
And, so did your post.
I do my best.
You left out dorms or road trips. What about then?
Then it becomes “Ms. SexyFingers,” but that’s a story for another day….
holding out for the special needs cat…*fingers x’d*
Punctuation is your friend.
“Hello.
I have five cats.
Three, I am keeping.
Two, I am looking for a loving home for.
I have thought about finding a home for the third one, but she is a special needs cat.”
thanks barbara
Why even tease us with the thought of an additional three cats? It’s like having to wait until Easter to eat a Cadbury Creme Egg.
(And don’t anyone dare post that those things are anathema; they are tiny ovals of seasonal deliciousness, I say!)
They’re better if you put them in the freezer first ♥
*makes note re: freezer tip*
Easter is coming!
I like to boil mine and make Deviled Cadburys.
Have you tried them dipped in batter and deep-fried?
Apparently they’re disgusting.
I’ll be damned. She got the past tense of “spay” right!
Even the blind squirrel gets the nut…
Are we talking about HHNF? ‘Cause I don’t think she’s blind.
I have a Braille monitor and a Braille keyboard.
And yet still managed to spell vaccination wrong. So close, yet still so much fail.
[soapbox]
I adopted a special needs cat. He was an awesome, older cat who happened to be deaf. My life only required some very minor adjustments as a result of the disability, and I had more than six nice years of a fun, quirky, loving pet. I hope that if people see ads for special needs animals they don’t just keep walking or scrolling. The added responsibility may not be all that much in addition to the regular ones of pet ownership (though sometimes it does require more responsibility and commitment, not to mention money), and the animal will love you for it. If you’re looking for a pet, please think about this.
This ad’s reference to the special-needs cat that she’s keeping put this in my mind. That is all.
[/soapbox]
[regular snark mode: commence]
My dad is a veterinarian. We had loads of special needs cats growing up. They actually don’t require much extra work than a normal cat. Some needed some medication, others needed a little extra care when dealing with, but most of them weren’t really disabled by their disability.
Off the top of my head, through my childhood we had:
3 cats who were missing a leg (they didn’t really notice they were missing one).
1 completely blind cat (Loved the lap… never ran into anything. I think he learned echo location)
2 Deaf cats (our cats never come when called anyway)
1 cat who was missing his eye (He also drooled a lot)
1 cat who was missing both ears (Streamlined for extra speed)
1 cat with severe arthritus (Good lapcat though)
1 cat with bad back problems (genuinely special needs, lots of medication before we found something that worked)
We also had our fair share of completely healthy cats. At one point I think we had 11 cats runing around the place. Talk about visitors in your own home.
Bonus points for echolocation.
My dad & mom got into finding homes for ‘retired’ racing greyhounds… Needless to say we have Dobermans at our house now. Can you say breed burnout?
We had a rehomed racing greyhound for about 6 years. The first entire year he spent doing nothing but sleeping on the couch, going outside to “do the doo”, and eating. Then spontaneously almost exactly 1 year after we got him, he turned into a really fun dog.
Guess he just needed to take a break.
I house/dogsat for some people who had a pit bull/greyhound cross. You did not walk that dog, she walked YOU. (In Soviet Russia …) And then you went home and tried to put your arm that had held the leash back into its socket.
My sister’s largest dog is a Great Dane/Golden Retriever mix (there is probably some hound dog mixed in there too, Dega’s skin looks like they were out of his size so he had to go with a larger one) and he will literally knock you off your feet if you’re not careful. He saw a stray cat once and dragged my fairly hefty brother-in-law across the backyard like he had wheels on his…bottom.
Careful. This may come up on a google search as a recipe:
3 cats who were missing a leg.
1 completely blind cat.
2 Deaf cats.
1 cat who was missing his eye .
1 cat who was missing both ears.
1 cat with severe arthritus.
1 cat with bad back problems.
A friend of mine adopted a deaf kitten that she found meowing loudly in a dumpster outside a restaurant. My friend had her for 12 years before the sweet thing passed. She would “call” Blanche by stomping on the floor, and that cat always knew when she ran the can opener.
I am now treating my rescue dog for IMHA, from which he is recovering quite nicely. He is quite sly about discreetly spitting out pills onto the carpet, long after he should have swallowed them.
Marshmallows work wonders for the sly pill dog. Just jam them in the center and go for it.
Otherwise the canned food meatball can be used in place of the Mallow.
Of course we had a dog who could eat the mashmallow or the meatball out from around the pill and still spit it out. We ended up just having to do it the standard way. *Sigh* I miss that dog sometimes.
Ah, but the diabetus (picture Wilford Brimley) that was aggravated by the Predisone he was on means no marshmallows for Gonzo, and he would ferret out a pill in a meatball to be spit on the carpet later.
I have resorted to the “if-it’s-past-the-bump-in-the-tounge-it’s-down” approach. Thank god for gloves.
You get to use gloves? Lucky.
I think we’ve discovered one of BaconTini’s fetishes.
I remember one time we gave our dog some leftover stew or something that was mostly meat and gravy, but there was one green bean left. She gulped it down, then a few minutes later it sounded like she was throwing up. When we looked, there on the porch lay the one green bean.
Hey frigglesnitz! Glad to hear Gonzo’s recovering well. You had me worried since there’s been no update. (In case you didn’t figure it out I’m that christina who reads your blog 😉 )
Simon, my current avatar kitty, is a special needs baby. He had a bottle of fabric softener tip over onto him when he was a kitten and he swallowed quite a bit (he started to lick it off before anyone realized what had happened). As a result he drools a bit sometimes, has coordination problems, is partially blind and deaf, and makes a chirping, squeaking sound when he purrs that I call his happy noise. He’s also afraid of just about everything, but I’m not sure if that’s because of the accident and the resulting blindness and deafness or just the way he is. I wouldn’t trade him for anything.
Taco – At one time when I was little we had 22 cats living at our house. Fun to play with, but not so much fun when you were on poop-scoop patrol in the garage. The tiniest, most cramped places seemed to be the most popular toilets.
Yup. We had to lay tinfoil in all our hard to reach places to prevent hidden poo. They really liked to go behind the TV.
Band nameof the day:
Now at the 40 Watt Club: Hidden Poo.
..there’s a joke in there about there not being sh** on TV, I bet…
“…tinfoil in all our hard to reach places…”
that sounds unpleasant, indeed.
“So what do you think of that new band playing at the 40 Watt?”
“They’re crap.”
The “special needs cat” immediately made me think of Choo-Choo Bear the boneless cat/blob from “Something Positive”:
http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp01142002.shtml
http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp07212002.shtml
Choo Choo Bear FTW! Honey and I have official pink CCB tee shirts. 8)
We have special needs birds and one special fish. We just lost our oldest special needs bird, a zebra finch who had what seemed to be Star Gazing, where he would throw his head back over his tail. It was definitely a spasm situation, and he would do it more when stressed, for example if we fed him or changed his water or looked at him from across the room. Most birds with this neurological condition, if that’s what it was, don’t live very long, but Kuno lived a full seven years, which is average for zebs. He had a companion whose legs went out to her sides, Beta. She passed just before he did.
“5 cats 3” makes me think “3rd of 5” and so it must be a little Borg kitty. Other than it trying to assimilate you every 10 minutes, wouldn’t that be AWESOME?
I even found a picture of her!
I’m immensely glad I wasn’t the only one who immediately thought, “BORG KITTY!”. I just wasn’t going to be the Trekkie today.
Hey, I know her. That’s Lo-cat-us of Borg.
It looks more like Lol-cat-us of the Borg.
I can haz ur technological and biological distinctiveness?
I’m even more pleased that 2 of you beat me to it, I don’t feel so alone in my nerdiness now.
I love the cat’s expression. Borg kitty was assimilated, but not happy about the wardrobe.
Here is a slightly perkier one. Rawr!
Oh well. Resistance is futile.
20 quatloos for the Borg kitty!
30 quatloos that Lando defeats the Borg Kitty.
I’ll take some of that action. Borg Kitty looks royally pissed and needs someone to take it out on.
I can’t decide which job would be worse; putting that outfit on a cat or trying to take it off. Either way you’re losing some blood. And possibly a finger.
Over all, it was a rollercoaster ride. I cried right along with the rest of the audience about the special needs kitty. I laughed about the faulty counting skills. But my favorite part was the twist ending. I really expected the second cat’s name to be (Real Shiney)” but was quite pleased with the sudden revelation that it’s name was, in fact, (Grace). 3 paws up.
I genuinely thought the second kitty was named Theotherm. Like Theodore combined with geothermal. The whole (Grace) issue caught me by surprise and I had to reread.
I now kind of want to name my next cat Theotherm.
And +2 on the special needs cats: two of our best cats evar were special needs. Patches had FIV, and Darby had feline diabetes. Both were awesome, and I only wish they’d been with us longer.
Theotherm® sounds like the name of a new product from Owens Corning.
On first read, that’s what I thought, too, re: theotherm.
And I figured “theotherm” sounded like a new insulating material for jackets and gloves.
It’s part of a new line of thermal clothing for religious deities.
It’s what the holy blue habit’s made of, in SilvaNoir’s new drawing, I think.
Special needs cat is redundant.
The best part about this comment is imagining the avatar making that statement. 🙂
If an actual cat had made this comment it would have been followed by the line:
“Now, feed me.”
I am not sure whether to agree wholeheartedly or be offended on behalf of cats. I choose to believe that, coming from a cat avatar, it refers to the instinctual belief (knowledge?) of all cats that they are superior, and therefore all of their needs are more special than yours. And so agrre.
My cat Daisy-May smokes and carries an Uzi (I know I’ve mentioned this before) and for that reason I catered to her every need/desire/whim – special or otherwise.
We entered peace talks after she decided that sleeping on my chest was not enough territory for her, and took over my face as well. (or was smothering an ulterior motive? – not sure)
After the peace talks failed she chose to move in with the neighbours who were more accommodating of her demands.
She is absolutely superior – what other creature can sleep in the middle of the road just over the crest of a hill for two years and still have the nine lives she was born with?
“theotherm”…the equivalent of moderately elevated room temperature in the huxtable house?
Once Theo learned to keep the penguins out, Vanessa was able to take control of the thermostat.
So if she is doing cam video of the cats does that mean that she will be doing an interpretive dance of what the cats are like? Because I would totally watch that.
Is anyone else reminded of those rhymes people would chant to while jump roping?
I have 5 cats 3
I am keeping two
How many will you take home with you?
1. . .2. . .3. . .
For
6 long years these poor kitties moped.
5 sad kitties: no reason
4 hope.
3 are still trapped with this choad who can’t spell;
2 can be saved, why won’t any
1 help?
My wife and I are expecting our first at the end of May, so I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the fact that I’m soon to be a “baby panter” myself! (And a baby de-panter, and a baby-pants-washer, and…)
Or at least, that was all I could think of when I read that.
Congratulations!
You might want to enjoy sleep now while you still can.
Yeah, sleep becomes a thing of the past.
Sleep? What is this strange thing you speak of…?
So I’ve heard. 🙂 And thanks.
Uh. How is babby made?
You need one of these, Meej:
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=322351.msg3718538#msg3718538
I’m going to call my next World of Warcraft character “Silver_Velvet_Theotherm”. Totally.
Night Elf Druid?
class catAd
{
public class main(String args[]) {
int totalCats = 5;
int givingCats = 2;
int keepingCats = 3;
int phoneNo = "###########";
string thecat; //will define with buyer input
/* str catName1 = "Silver velvet"; //global constant, cannot change catName */
str catName1 = "Grace"; //global constant, cannot change catName
str catTraits1 ="silver";
str catTraits2 ="velvet";
str catTraits3 ="black";
str catTraits4 = "shiney;
str catParts1 ="nose";
str myName ="Barbara";
str location1 = "########";
str location2 = "#########";
str location3 = "###";
str location4 ="######";
out.print("Hello, I have " + totalCats + " cats " + keepingCats + " I am looking for loving home for I have thought about finding a home for the third one but she is a special needs cat anyhow they are all " + keepingCats + " females and they have all had their rabies vacination and have been fixed so the initial cost has been covered so all I am asking is to please love a keep the cat you choose and if not give them back to me.);
out.print("I can meet you with" + thecat + " of your choice in " + location1 + " to " + location2 + " and " + location3 + " or " + location4 + " my husband works there and can meet you before or after work M-F I will do cam video of the cats on yahoo if u wish call me at " + phoneNo +".");
out.print("Thanks " + myName + " yes that is a toll free number so now there are no excuses;o).");
out.print("ok the "+ givingCats + " I am looking for a home for one is " + catTraits1 + " with a " + catTraits1 + " " + catTraits2 + " " + catParts1" her name is ");
theotherm myTheotherm = new (catTraits1 + catTraits2)theotherm;
out.print(myTheotherm);
out.print("is her baby she is all " + catTraits3 + " with a " + catParts1 + " " she looks like a baby panter she is real " + catTraits4 + " her name is " + (catName1) + ".");
}
}
Find the error.
“GrahamT permalink”
Looks to be the error I think.
Either that or you’re missing /* at the beginning, and */ at the end of the code.
LoL
I actually commented catName1 just to see how well WordPress scrubs their input…
And it’s not the missing quotation at the end of the first out.print (damnit).
Is it the missing quotation mark after shiney?
Erm, that’s not it either (*curses under breath*).
The only thing I really see wrong with it is that you actually took the time to write it.
He clearly has too much time on his hands today don’t you think?
Just wait until HHNF arrives…
I’m not saying a single word.
Technically, that was like, six words.
Well, technically they’re not single words because they’re all taken.
😐
Sorry. My funny bone is fractured.
You know what, screw it, I left out givingCats in the first sentence.
Joke’s over, folks, nothing more to see here.
I thought you did that on purpose actually.
Oh yeah, I did… that’s the ticket…
He did it to please his wife … uh … Morgan Fairchild. Yeahh… That’s it; that’s the ticket.
I’m thinking that the (reason) why (Barbara) was using (parentheses) for the (names) is that all the (quotation marks) had already been used by some other (Craigslist idiot), so she had to take what was left.
I think she was programming in Lisp.
That also explains the lack of (commas). But how do you acount for the missing (periods)?
She didn’t write this in the correct time period, she’s out of phase with us.
Missing periods can be ascribed to unprotected sex/contraceptive failure, but sometimes just stress. I hope it’s stress. I really hate the idea of all of these near-illiterate CL people reproducing, as the world is full up with its ration of stupid.
… Yeah, I love working with idiots! 8)
ROFL
It’s the unfortunate fact of life that the less intelligent somebody is, the less likely they are to use protection.
I think I may need to watch Idiocracy later today.
I #wonder# what punctuation marks #people# will use once #parentheses# run out.
I dont ®know® but whatever ®replaces® it wont last long at this ®rate®
I ¿am¿ all for ¥using¥ completely random ¤punctuation¤ marks liberally throughout †any† text. It §gives§ me an ¶excuse¶ to play with the ©Windows© alt key codes!
Mimi, as a travel agent we use most of the symbols in your post to perform various functions such as pricing so what I see is that you would like to “change punctuation” (¤ meaning “change”) which is oddly appropriate.
i think it’s obvious that qwerty-style keyboards will be replaced with poiuyt-style keyboards so that the punctuation can just be used backwards’ly…therefore buying us years of additional overuse. ?)what(
That brings a whole new meaning to “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.”
Yes, at this €rate€, €things€ may get really weird in a few €months€.
drmk/dan have you been “tweaking” things in here at all?
Normally, I click reply under someone message and the reply box opens up right there in the thread and I go ahead and post. That worked great as I could see where it would end up within the messages.
Today though, every time I click on reply, the whole page refreshes (which takes time and is rather annoying) and the reply box opens up at the foot of the page, so I’ve no idea where my post will end up.
So come on, tell, what did you do? Did you break it?
I suspect it was the cats.
Now Dan, just because you can’t do the math, don’t blame the cats.
Don’t the time if you can’t do the math, Grams always said.
Grams was a little touched, bless her heart.
My gram said “Don’t do the meth if you can’t do the time.”
On visiting days, of course.
It’s still working okay for me –it’s not reloading the page, and it’s putting the box where the reply will show up.
I’ll bash a few things together in the admin panel and see if that makes a difference. Whether it will make it better or worse, I’ve no idea.
Hmm. The box #always# opens up at the end for me, which is why I lurk more often than I comment.
Clearly, (5 of 3) is (7 of 9)’s cat. The silvery facial hardware is the giveaway.
My cat had better depth perception than judgment. He’s get so ESSITED gawking the birdies in the garden that he’d launch himself headfirst into the kitchen window, creating a sonic boom that would scare the birds away.
He’d stagger back, that – Ow, what happened? – look on his furry face, but then the birds would circle back and land once more, and he’d be off to the races again. A padded skull served him well. Sadly, his time came and went before the advent of consumer video recorders.
i was promised that there would be NO MATH!
Thanks to everyone who looked through my gallery last night. I would have replied, but I fell asleep. XD
Did anyone else read this one as the poster being frustrated at Barbara? “Thanks Barbara yes that is a toll free number so now there are no excuses” No more excuses, Babs! Come get your cats!
Yes! I thought perhaps Barbara had “suggested” the toll-free number in an insistent, borderline manic way and the poster was doing a bit of passive aggressive ribbing.
barbara seems to have some importance in this cat-exchange, somewhere between the yahoo and the toll-free number. is she the head cat? who is this barbara, and from whence has she come?
tangentially, my kitty has major social issues and likes to tell you he loves you by biting and clawing you. he says, “oooh, i love it when you pet me SO MUCH I WANT TO EAT YOU.” i’ve been thinking about enrolling him in classes to help him express himself better, but i’m not sure he’d be able to follow the curriculum.
Is anyone worried that her husband could meet you with the cats after work? What is he going to do with them all day?
Silva Noir, your card is going to be nothing but punch holes pretty soon. 8) Might have to make your next one out of titanium. Congratulations.
If I get ten punch holes, do I get a free sub-sandwich? Because that’s how every punch card I’ve ever had before worked.
Close! No sandwich, but all the Internets you can eat!
I was once told that you get a free coffee when you have enough punches!
I’ve got somewhere between not enough punches and enough punches, so I feel I’m getting close.
Damn, Bacontini blew my cover again. That’s it, I’m straining his fat off again!
If you wouldn’t have said anything, we wouldn’t have known. Here I was thinking it was Meredith, or Ed.
Well, since he did it yesterday too, I figured the cat was out of the bag… and into the math class.
Nah, I totally suspected it was TM. The avatars are kind of similarly-shaped. 😉
*facepalm* Bacontini is actually TacoMagic? Wow! I never would have guessed. 8)
Does Cat Math remind anyone else of Calvinball? The baseball-kickball-rugby game that Calvin and Hobbes play? The rules change as you go along, get more ridiculous, nonsensical and infuriating, and in the end, no one really wins.
You’re alive!
Uh, no I’m not. This is..uh, Ghost Writer!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7tazcxWUwk
And this is why you’re my bestest e-buddy.
😀
I love the auto-skin slapping at mention of “cyberpunk.”
Calvin & Hobbes FTW!
They are the best. And yes Calvinball must be based on Cat Math.
Because Hobbes is a ~Lion~ right?
And Lions are cats.
So are not.a.lions.
How did I not realize that? You’re awesome.
I’ll admit that I get all fucked up by ligers and tigons.
In Soviet Russia, ligers and tigons get all fucked up by you.
Just let tigons be tigons and we’ll forgive you.
Bacontini isn’t even in this thread!
I keep them straight by location. Tigers and cheetahs are from Africa. Lions are from… wait. Okay. Cheetahs are from Africa. Tigers are found on the Asian continent, and lions… Australia?
Nevermind. I’m just as fucked up by ’em.
Wow, I really showed my Bitch in that post you linked to. I think that was my first comment, and I was ready to go Tron on that Emily chick and slap her. she must be corey’s sister.
I know… it was boodiful. You were so angry you couldn’t even spell “their.”
or ‘american’ or ‘chettah’
My brilliance stuns me.
Americans don’t deserve to be spelled right — bunch of bigoted racists, man.
Oh, Bacontini heard his name. You wished Bacontini be in da thread, well Bacontini is now in da thread!
Bacontini does whatever it takes to please da ladies… so long as the ladies want Bacontinis.
This thread wins simply by the Calvin and Hobbes reference. That Calvinball does in fact resemble Cat Math is just the awesome sauce.
*thinks to self*
Oh. My. God. I’m all alone on YSaC! This will be the first and last time! woo0hooo!
*runs around nekkid, singing loudly and off-key*
crap, forgot about lurkers.
holyshatnersforgetthatlastpost
ROFL
I don’t think I will ever forget that post.
🙂
Neither will all the lurkers,
remember them. We met some of them the other day
I’ll just be hiding under this rock.
You really needn’t hide under that rock.
I’ve been lurking long enough to have *seen* worse.
Besides that’s my rock you’re under. Hello, down there.
Awww. I’ll be real quiet. I’ll share the hole with the mole if you let me stay.
Well, OK.
But watch out for the mole.
He might rat you out.
you mean like this?
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m174/sweetallysmom/meee039.jpg
That’s my buddy, I dug him out of my yard.
Well that is just the cutest little mole.
He’s probably OK, but some moles are… well… moles.
you know – rats, stool pidgeons, etc.
Canaries, narcs, yeah I know them all. Now to train my mole to work for the government…
A mole in the Gov’t that can’t be good.
For whom are you really working?
And does anyone know where the edit feature went?
Ah, well it is time for me to go, I’m about to lose my internet connection.
Goodnight all!
Forget it? Why? I do that in my apartment all the time. The only lurker is the cat. He’s used to it.
*snaps picture*
*uploads*
Dear Jason F. I hope you are still looking for a housekeeper. Here are some pictures of me so that you can see how blessed I am. When can I start?
Yesterday!!
Last time I did something similar to that, it made YDSaC.
You’ll just have to decide whether yours is more embarassing than me insinuating that I read Hannah Montana forums.
Erm, you don’t? Uhh… *hides extra Hannah Montana Live ticket*
To give you an idea of what we’re talking about here, this is an actual conversation between me and my wife:
Taco: I can’t decide who’s skankier, Hannah Montana or Miley Cyrus.
TacoWife: Uh, they’re the same person, you do know that right?
Taco: No way! Are you sure?
TacoWife: *Eyeroll* Yes, I’m sure.
Taco: No wonder I was having trouble with that call.
Oh, crap. I bought Hannah Montana AND Miley Cyrus tickets. Now you tell me…
LOL for the Tom Lehrer reference 🙂