There used to be a post here, and now there is not, and I would appreciate it if those of you who knew what it was about could be quiet about it until we are ready to go live, because some of the stuff is just placeholders.
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jeffreyw
I’m on go with my credit card, needin a coffee mug.
Cat Lady
I CAN HAZ TUNCH + OBEY PLZ?
jeffreyw
Gratuitous kitteh pic.
jeffreyw
Foolish boy just won’t listen.
Maude
Could you put up a link so that I can bookmark it please?
General Winfield Stuck
I just want my Obama tee shirt to be buried with when Sarah gets us all kilt in a few years.
Linkmeister
jeffreyw, are you scoring that match? Takedowns, reversals, etc.?
Sorry. In high school I wrestled in the 108-lb class, before I got pushed into the team manager job. (20 years later I was up to 215 lbs; I wish that coach had seen me then!)
jeffreyw
@Linkmeister: LOL! I rassled in HS too, weighed 180 but competed in the heavyweight class.
demo woman
LOL.. John, you are a tease. Do you have any idea when the items will be available for purchase?
freelancer
TFSM4RSSfeeds
Colette
Is this where we go to do the Mystery Dance?
debit
@Colette: I guess Cole tried and he tried, but was still mystified.
General Winfield Stuck
I’m getting the rubber mallet to brain myself.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
First there was a blogpost
then there is no blogpost
then there is
feebog
There is nothing dumb as a post.
jeffreyw
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Dammit, now I have that tune on a loop in my head.
arguingwithsignposts
dammit, my flight was delayed for over an hour for this sh*t?!?
No, srsly. my flight was delayed for over an hour. and I got the full TSA patdown.
Max
Attn iphone BJ’ers…
Best (free) ap ever!
Words with Friends.
It’s scrabble that you play with friends or other random people.
It’s a move at a time, you do your move and then you get a text when the other person has made their’s. The game moves as quickly or as slowly as you and the other person go.
So fun!
I’m Max2005 if you’re on it or are interested in joining.
Warren Terra
So now John is going all Magritte on us, with “Ceci n’est pas une post”?
demo woman
John, If you really wanted to make it a mystery post, wouldn’t you have to delete a few comments?
Tonal Crow
I see that the NSA has gotten to John. Pity.
john b
@Max:
hasbro will shut it down soon enough i’m sure like every other good web implementation of scrabble.
Chad N Freude
@Warren Terra: WT, please stop hiding your face behind that apple.
me
I saw the mystery post! It said @#$(#*@
NO CARRIER
Cat Lady
Waiting for Godot.
BigSwami
arguingwithsignposts
Deep thought: I have to face class warfare every time I am waiting to board a flight and they announce “first class” boarding. F**kers.
The Other Steve
I saw it. In the post John Cole admits he’s really brick oven bill.
freelancer
@Warren Terra:
LOL, sir.
Krissed Off
Fucktards of the World Unite!
Chad N Freude
I saw the post before the Conspiracy forced John to take it down. What it revealed was something that only Robert Langdon could unravel.
mcd410x
The missing post? Have we finally figured out how the progs faked the moon landing?
WereBear
The call is coming from inside the house.
jeffreyw
Tweeet! Ref calls a foul!
eco2geek
I can haz food or I can tellz.
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debit
Kitteh update: The ER vet assumed stress had caused his bladder issues, but couldn’t say for sure since she couldn’t get a urine sample that wasn’t full of blood. Bleh. So she went to the head of feline urinary disorders department (I love the U of M) and he thought Luther might qualify for a research study and would I like to bring him back for a full exam and xray for free? Yes. Yes I would.
And I’m glad I did. He has two for sure, possibly three stones in his bladder and is now part of the study and on a special diet designed to reduce or disintegrate bladder stones. And if they are not gone at the end of the study (8 weeks) the U will remove them at no charge. I realize I may sound like a piker, but it’s been a bad few years for me financially; I get by okay, but footing the bill for this surgery on my own would have been very, very difficult. So, while I tend to be happily agnostic, sometimes I wonder if there isn’t something out there looking out for, if not me, at least the small animals in my care.
Finally, sorry, but I’m going to brag on my cat. The ER vet called him “difficult”, and he certainly can be. Calling his first two months with us “difficult” would be an understatement. Today, when they asked me to help hold him on his back during the ultrasound I just plopped him down, then skritched under his chin and told him he was a good boy. He closed his eyes and started purring and just laid there while they smeared cold jelly on his tummy and did their thing. The tech couldn’t believe it, as I gather he’d been a bit of a bastard again for his xrays. Sometimes, they just make you wanna cry.
General Winfield Stuck
In order to make this thread about nothing about something
Charlie in Repose #1
Charlie in Repose #2
jeffreyw
@eco2geek:
Here ya go.
RareSanity
@Tonal Crow:
shhhh…it was the Secret Service…
The black SUV was never here…I did hear that it hit and run somebody though…
Alex S.
Give us the birth certificate!
slag
I hope you went with Zazzle instead of CafePress, John. CafePress caps your markup at 10% in the marketplace but you can put it at whatever you want in your store. Sounds fine if you can drive a lot of traffic through your store. But then, you’re competing with your own product that can be purchased at a cheaper rate through CafePress’ marketplace. Long story short, Cafe Press sucks.
WereBear
@debit: I’m so glad for both of you! He sounds like a real turnaround case.
drag0n
For those of you who have not seen this yet:
Carly Fiorina’s epic fail demon-sheep attack ad.
Watch the whole thing.
Wile E. Quixote
@John Cole
I’m going to tell, it’s for John’s new line of Balloon Juice T-shirts featuring pictures of Tunch. The shirts are only available in XXXXXXXXXXL, not because you’re that big, but because that’s the only size that they could fit a picture of Tunch on. Coming soon: the 55 gallon coffee
drummug featuring a picture of Tunch.jeffreyw
@debit: Good for you, vet bills cane be onerous. Hope the diet works.
Wile E. Quixote
@mcd410x:
Wait, it’s the progs that faked the moon landing? I thought that Rahm was responsible for that and threatened to have Stanley Kubrick killed if he ever told the truth, which is why Kubrick made The Shining.
Linkmeister
@jeffreyw: 30 years later I was down to 165 lbs and have stayed there for the next 10.
I don’t recall an opponent biting me, as your later photo seems to show.
Cain
So John is finally going to reveal to us his new house. Yay.
cain
Comrade Mary
Bother.
Wile E. Quixote
@The Other Steve:
Hah, nice try at throwing people off the scent, I saw the real post, in the real post DougJ admits that he’s really Brick Oven Bill, and that he’s been writing all of his blog posts from his chalet, complete with ugly brick oven, in Davos.
CalD
Uhhhmm… You’re merging your blog with Firedog Lake? The Page? The Corner? La Philippina Loca?…
Morbo
Avatar review from the guy who did the 7 part Phantom Menace review. Don’t worry; this one is only two parts.
Mnemosyne
@debit:
I’m convinced that they actually know that going to the vet helps them when they’re sick. Tashi hated going to the vet … unless her ear infection was acting up, in which case she’d practically drag the carrier out herself.
Something Fabulous
@debit: Yes, do not feel bad about it at all. It’s fantastic that they offer such a thing. My boy had struvite crystals and almost complete shut down of his system a few years ago and the bill for the 3 day vet stay, emergency late night admitting charge (!!!!), treatments, etc was: ELEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS. No surgery needed, as it turned out. It was tax day too, the day I wrote the check as I recall, so an especially horrifying experience, but I couldn’t not do it. You know. And fortunately I was working at the time and all of that. So, it’s very cool that you have that resource.
Wile E. Quixote
@John Cole
The “John Cole, Exposed, 2010” calendar will also be available. This calendar features tasteful pictures of John, au naturel doing such common household tasks as mopping, vacuuming, reshingling the roof, clearing brush, etc. Get yours while they last.
eco2geek
@jeffreyw: Yum.
TooManyJens
@Wile E. Quixote: Don’t forget scrubbing his armpits with steel wool!
Bret
I WONDER WHAT THE SECRET IS. I CAN’T IMAGINE IT’S GOT ANYTHING TO DO WITH COMMERCE FROM THE FIRST DOZEN OR SO POSTS.
:-P
Ruemara
All I have is that Mystery Date theme running through my head.
Bad Horse's Filly
@debit: Yeah! Glad to hear it all worked out for the best and your difficult kitty, wasn’t!
Wile E. Quixote
@TooManyJens:
Shhhhhh, don’t tell, that’s the double gatefold in the middle of the calendar.
Jane (aka "fursty schoolmarm")
One way that apostrophes are used is in contractions, to show that a letter is being left out:
she’s = she is
there’s = there is
we’re = we are, etc.
You can test this: if you can substitute the two complete words for the contraction and it makes sense, then the apostrophe is used correctly. (Example: It’s late. It is late. Apostrophe is correct.)
However: The butterfly broke it’s wing. The butterfly broke it is wing.
In that case, the substitution doesn’t work, and the apostrophe shouldn’t be there. “The butterfly broke its wing” is correct – no apostrophe, ever, in that case.
When apostrophes are used in contractions, this test always works.
Coming soon: theirs or their’s? The apostrophe and possession
gbear
@CalD: Jeez, it was bad enough when TBogg did it. Don’t even joke.
So is John’s missing post going to start trickling out in a message called Posty Post?
debit
@Mnemosyne: Heh. It’s funny. Normally I have trouble getting him in the carrier. Today he just got in.
@Something Fabulous: Oh yeah, those ER fees are tough. But you make do somehow and sometimes catch a break. Glad your kitty pulled through. (Tax day. Ouch.)
@Bad Horse’s Filly: Thank you kindly! You’re rather nice for being the minion of the Thoroughbred of Sin.
Anne Laurie
@debit:
Bless the U of M, and you for doing the best you can. Our little dog Flicker had two surgeries for bladder stones — she developed the oxalate kind, went on the special diet, and developed the calcate variety three years later. She got an ultrasound to check for recurrance every six months, and I will never let the Spousal Unit forget that during one dicey financial interval he suggested I forgo the new glasses I desperately needed so Flicker didn’t have to wait an extra few weeks.
Woodbuster
Wow. Anger Pimp? Really?
I want Lily!
edit: 28 products? Cool!
edit2: I know. I cheated. So sue me!
General Winfield Stuck
@Woodbuster:
Me too!! and the King Tunch. Proof of life please, senor Cole. Having only one good arm is no excuse.
Tonal Crow
@Jane (aka “fursty schoolmarm”): Please, oh please, give this lesson to the people who maintain the NYT’s “style guidelines”. “SUV’s”, indeed.
AhabTRuler
@arguingwithsignposts: Yeah, but did you get a ‘happy ending’?
2liberal
@Jane (aka “fursty schoolmarm”):
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.possessive.its.has.no.apostrophe/topics?lnk=srg
this newsgroup and you were made for each other. also if you ever get interested in sports, post in baseball newsgroups. Stay Away from football newsgroups.
Jane (aka "fursty schoolmarm")
@2liberal:
Thanks for the tip!
arguingwithsignposts
@AhabTRuler:
Sadly, no!
(you knew that was coming)
Tax Analyst
@debit:
But did he get no satisfaction?
debit – glad to hear your cat came out alright and the $$ part, too.
Tax Analyst
@Wile E. Quixote:
I don’t even know what John Cole looks like, but tasteful or not these are very disturbing images nonetheless.
But you forgot washing his car