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A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

The willow is too close to the house.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

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rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

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Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

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Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

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SO we are in the new digs, the U-haul has been returned, and I am now starting the process of putting my life back together, box by box. Here’s a quick pic I took from the Uhaul (and I was at a red light, so no bitching about taking pics while driving):

Tunch made some ungodly sounds the whole ride up, but seems to be adjusting to the new place quite nicely. I’ll post some more pictures when I can find my camera.

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  1. 1.

    kid bitzer

    tunch told me it won’t really feel like home until he’s personalized it.

    you know, in all of the corners.

    good luck with the move, john.

  3. 3.

    Yutsano

    That is one unhappy cat. I would sleep with one eye open tonight open if I were you John. Lily of course looks just happy to be going for a ride!

  4. 4.

    PaulW

    Cats don’t like car rides much.

    My oldest cat would want to get out of her cage and then hop on the dashboard right in front of me. That tends to cause problems… After the second time doing it I figured “no more.”

  5. 5.

    Josie

    Tunch will have his revenge……Oh yes he will…..when you least expect it. I can see it in his eyes.

  7. 7.

    Brachiator

    I’m not sure that I would let the cat out of that carrier. At least, not for a few days.

  8. 8.

    Mark S.

    My Maine Coon sounds like he’s passing a kidney stone whenever he has to ride in the car.

  12. 12.

    Mike in NC

    Will never forget having to drive seven hours to the new house with a hysterical cat in the seat next to me.

  15. 15.

    mr. whipple

    Cats don’t like car rides much.

    My departed Geezer loved car rides. I’d say, you wanna go for a ride?’ and he’d run to the door.

    He was really smart. He knew if we got to the end of the street and turned left, it was a vet visit and he’d cower on my lap. If we turned right, however, he knew it was the park or my parents. He’d put his paws on the dash and stand on his hand legs, looking out the windows. Man, he loved those rodes!

  17. 17.

    Comrade Mary

    Tunch made some ungodly sounds the whole ride up

    Mp3s or it didn’t happen.

    I really sympathize. We moved from London to Toronto with three very unhappy cats many years ago. One mewled piteously for 20 minutes, then decided to stoically wait for death. One just kept giving me the most deeply hurt looks, then turned his back and sulked for 100 miles. And the third howled every.two.seconds.on.the.dot for two hours. She was sounding pretty scratchy toward the end, but still — two hours of that.

    EDIT: Oh, God — the post title! BWAH!

  21. 21.

    schrodinger's cat

    Tunch made some ungodly sounds the whole ride up

    My cats sing a duet when they are in the backseat. They make the most pitiable sounds you can ever imagine.

  25. 25.

    gbear

    My cats can occasionally have ‘issues’ with each other at home, but when I take them to the vet, I can put them both in the same carrier without incident. They’re both so worried about having to leave the house that they don’t care if they’re sharing close quarters with their arch rival.

  26. 26.

    Kirk Spencer

    @PaulW: erm, MOST

    Cats don’t like car rides much.

    I’ve had two, and known three others, that loved the car. One liked to get on the flat part behind the back seats. It was amusing to watch reactions when people realized that was a CAT there (usually when she shifted, or decided to wash… um, yeah.)

    But yeah, most cats are extremely unhappy at being in the car; and nobody nearby will have any doubt of that opinion.

  27. 27.

    Short Bus Bully

    Looks as though Tunch needs an upgrade to “Business Class” to, you know, stretch out a bit.

  29. 29.

    Violet

    Awww….poor Tunch. He looks like he wants to kill something. Not a happy kitty. Lily looks so sweet and mellow. I hope they enjoy their new home. Does it have a bigger yard for Lily?

  30. 30.

    Svensker

    Awww, they both look so cute. Hope the Tunchster copes OK. Cats are so unpredictable.

  32. 32.

    Phoenix Woman

    I’ve never before seen Tunch with his eyes that wide open. I’m surprised you didn’t get a migraine from all the I-Hate-You-And-You’re-Going-To-Die vibes he was tossing your way.

    Lillidog, on the other hand, is a living doll.

  33. 33.

    Annie

    @Mike Kay:

    Truly LOL….Tunch looks like he is saying why am I in this bullshit cage, when the darling Lily gets to stretch out and enjoy the ride…Lily looks like she is saying oh, shit, Tunch is clearly pissed and I hope he is going to take it out on John not me…

    One of the cutest pictures of Tunch ever…Do we think John will be paying a visit to the local drug store shortly?

  35. 35.

    licensed to kill time

    I hope all three of you are very happy in your new house.

    Tunch does look a wee bit cramped in his carrier but I’ve heard that can actually make them feel a bit more secure. It’s sure better than having a howling cat trying to crawl under the gas pedal, which is what one of my kittehs used to do back in the day before you could buy those carrier things everywhere. He H.A.T.E.D. getting in the car, because he knew it always ended up at that scary smelling vet place.

    Tunch and Lily look quite at ease with the car and each other, nice pic!

  37. 37.

    Bob K

    Whenever it comes time for my kitteh to go to the sick kitty place he always acts like its the first time in his 13 year life that he’s ever been in a car. I’ve given up trying to get him into a carrier (I have the scars to prove it) my wife drives and we sit in the backseat. He starts yowling No! No! No! No! from the time we pull out of the driveway till his voice gives out. As an extra bonus – by the time we’ve gotten to the vet – that stool sample they want? It’s fresh out of the pan. And when your kitteh is considered a senior? – they want to see him TWICE a year. Isn’t that special?

  43. 43.

    JenJen

    You know, all of the poking-fun at Tunch aside, that is one gorgeous, gorgeous beast. Those eyes, that rich, white coat! What a pretty boy. He has a real future ahead of him as a brooding, Boy-Band Fop, if you ask me.

    SUPAHSTAH!

  44. 44.

    Anne Laurie

    Lily is definitely glorying in her worldly-wise status as an experienced traveller who is trusted to behave correctly without restraint. Tunch, on the other hand, is grimly planning methods to reward you both for his discomfort. John, I hope you have some ‘nip and a can of tuna in oil waiting, for Lily’s sake if not yours!

  45. 45.

    General Egali Tarian Stuck

    and I am now starting the process of putting my life back together, box by box.

    No hurry. I moved 10 years ago and still haven’t completely unboxed. I took out what I need, and will get around to unbox the rest in a year or eight. Luckily , I live in the land of “I’ll do it manana (tomorrow)”. We take the pace of living in NM, and tie it to the Tortoise. So we never worry about running out of things to do. Pretty smart, eh?

  46. 46.

    Libby

    Aw. sweet shot of the critters and congrats on surviving the move.

    Adding, I’m late to say it, but I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the new clickable rolling tagline thingy.

  47. 47.

    gbear

    That’s the first time I’ve seen a U-haul interior that hasn’t looked like 28 cups of coffee, 2 quarts of oil, the crumbs from 4 dozen donuts and the smoke from 47 packs of cigarettes were trowelled onto the interior. How’d you rate?

  48. 48.

    scav

    There’s a thin veneer of serene to Tunch in that picture that makes it all the more worrisome actually. I would die for sound.

  51. 51.

    Mnemosyne

    @mr. whipple:

    I think that’s the trick, though — you took him places other than the vet in the car. Fun places! So of course he’d run to get into the car whenever you offered it.

    I remember with my late cat Boris I used to take him down to get his nails cut by a groomer. It wasn’t his favoritest thing ever, but he got used to it and didn’t give me any trouble getting into his carrier …. until the day I took him to the vet instead. Man, was he pissed!

  53. 53.

    YellowJournalism

    “Payback is a bitch, mister. Just you wait and see. You have to sleep sometime.”

  54. 54.

    gogol's wife

    I’ve been waiting for this all day. Tunch’s expression is classic! What a great cat! I’m anthropomorphizing Lily as trying to placate him and tell him everything will be fine. It will.

  55. 55.

    Bad Horse's Filly

    Hmmm, I don’t think Tunch looks mad, it’s more this inquisitive look that seems to say, “uh, John, have you lost what’s left of your mind? Why am I in this box?”

    Good luck to all. And I reiterate what many have said before, keep a good eye on him, they love to try and run away after a move.

  58. 58.

    schrodinger's cat

    @WereBear: Hi WereBear how are you? I used some of the advice on your site for my kitteh situation. Right now, I still police them, but they seem to have gone from wanting to kill each other (making low pitched growly sounds) to just hissing at each other. I still don’t leave them together unsupervised. Any more suggestions for getting the skittish cat ( she was attacked by my other cat, in an incident of redirected aggression) to be more comfortable?
    I hope this is not an inappropriate place for my kitteh question.

  59. 59.

    gogol's wife

    @jeffreyw:

    I bet Tunch can run. My cat Louis is fatter than Tunch, and he can run surprisingly fast. It reminds me of Chris Farley’s amazingly sprightly dancing in the sketch with Patrick Swayze.

  61. 61.

    schrodinger's cat

    @jeffreyw: I just discovered an Asian grocery store in my neighborhood, they have the most amazing things. I bought a home made chili-paste, which I am going to use in a stir fry and citron ginger honey which tastes like a mild version of marmalade and some tart candied gooseberries!

  65. 65.

    HRA

    It’s a great photo. I think Tunch looks more inqisitive rather than angry. Lily looks relaxed.

    Good luck to you all in your new home.

  67. 67.

    Comrade Luke

    Tunch is all “Didn’t Obama sign an order releasing me like a year ago? Obama FAIL!”

    Lily, on the other hand, looks baked.

  72. 72.

    ihop

    the way tunch is sitting, if we looked closer, would we be able to read love and hate on his beefy mitts?

    knowing what i know about cats, i’d prefer to think they would read noms and noms.

  73. 73.

    Bob K

    Springtime For Hitler/Debt whatever

    Okay – harkening back to our TARP investment in the Citigroup bailout bringing back a $33 billion dollar payout for our $25 billion dollar investment (who would have thought we’d see that money back?) When the senate is back in session and pathetic C streeter and Okie from Wiskokie Tom Coburn is on the floor clutching his pearls wondering how we could possibly fund extended unemployment benefits (which is the only thing that would keep my household from foreclosure) How are we supposed to pay for the extended unemployment benefits? Can we just have the money in wheelbarrows and “Ram it down their throats?” because that would be a really cool pay per view event which could go a long way towards deficit reduction.

  74. 74.

    Nethead Jay

    I can imagine the sounds. A couple of years ago I was helping a friend move to another city. When we were driving to the new place with her 2 cats in the backseat, some of the sounds coming from back there were downright terrifying. And these weren’t small cats either.

  76. 76.

    drillfork

    The last time I moved, three people were needed to insert cat into cat carrier.

    Next move I figure will take at least double the manpower, plus a team of animal psychologists on standby…

  77. 77.

    mai naem

    Be careful with Tunch. Our kitteh ran off both times we moved and disappeared for 2-3 wks. We figured she went back to the old houses but at the time we thought she was dead.

  78. 78.

    Comrade Mary

    Look for cat carriers where the entire top half comes off, like a clamshell. It’s somewhat easier to use than putting a stiffly splayed cat with all claws extended into the tiny front opening.

  79. 79.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    I also get the “why the fuck am I in this box when she gets to slouch on the seat” vibe from Tunch as opposed to “I am going to murder you in your sleep when we get to wherever it is we are going” vibe. My cats routinely yowl when they are in the cat boxes, some chill, but Ms. Peaches for instance screams at me for the entire trip, including in the waiting room at the vets office. Getting her out (for whatever treatment) and then back in again after the treatment is absolutely comical. I have one (Con) who will turn his back on me and just pout the entire trip.

  80. 80.

    JCT

    I’ll bet Tunch is trying to bribe Lily to open the door, c’mon dog, I’ll leave you a few crumbs in my dinner bowl…

    Our cat regularly swats food off the kitchen counter to the waiting (and food-obsessed) beagles. We think he’s been paid off.

    Great pic!

  81. 81.

    Annie

    @drillfork:

    LOL. We have that everytime we take our darlings to the vet. I have to enlist our entire courtyard. One stands by the door, one closes all doors except for one room, one herds our darlings into the room, one chases them from under the bed, one holds open the carrier, and the one with gloves, picks them up and inserts them into the carrier…God, I hate taking them to the vet…

  82. 82.

    Mnemosyne

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    Keaton meows the whole trip, but the Maine Coon in him means that it comes out more like a squeak than a proper kitty howl. Whenever I’m in the waiting room at the vet, people are convinced I’m bringing in a kitten until they see him in his 13-pound adult glory.

    Now, Boris … he had an operatic yowl. He would throw his head back and bring the plaster down from the ceiling. Fortunately, he would just yowl a few times in the car to make his displeasure known and then settle down.

  84. 84.

    Keith G

    Long day at work then I see that pic and began scanning comments. So much win. I feel thousand times better.

    Thanks y’all.

  85. 85.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    @jeffreyw:

    That looks good. I am fortunate to have a Caribbean restaurant just doors away from my office. Their Chicken curry is to die for, the only complaint I have is that is it “on the bone” so I sort of have to disassemble the chicken before I can begin eating but the curry is so wonderful it is worth the effort. My local Wal Mart (I know, of all places right?) sells Naan bread, when I recently made a turkey curry for DH and I it was wonderful to have a really nice Naan to dip in the sauce.

  86. 86.

    tavella

    My late cat Myrtle loved taking car rides, as long as she wasn’t in cage and could see out the window. She was my copilot on my move across country. Piled my travel bags on the passenger seat for her to sit on, fastened her harness to the seat so she wouldn’t get tossed out of the car if something happened, and she sat there and watched the US go by.

  87. 87.

    David Hunt

    Tunch made some ungodly sounds the whole ride up

    So that’s what that noise was. I thought I’d be safe from it down here in Texas.

  88. 88.

    Seebach

    I totally can’t post my hilarious link making fun of the religious right because of the spam filter. Fine. Don’t read it!

  90. 90.

    WereBear

    @schrodinger’s cat: I’m so glad my stuff helped!

    One trick is to increase the victim kitteh’s confidence, so they project “I won’t put up with this.” Instead of feeling sorry for them and telling them how put upon they are, we can praise them for being so wonderful, which can help them keep bullies in their place.

    You can go to my site (click on WereBear) and search for “cat harassment” for more tips.

  91. 91.

    mr. whipple

    @Annie:

    Punky walks right into the cage, and one girlwe just plop in the carrier. The other two, though, we have to corner like yours. It’s always an ordeal.

  94. 94.

    WereBear

    Mr. Bond weighs fifteen pounds, and would get in the carrier with mostly resignation, then lean his shoulder against the door and pop it right off its pins.

    One time I had to put in back in three times, and finally got the door to stay shut with duct tape.

    Then I got a top loading soft carrier. Sweet.

  96. 96.

    Genine

    I don’t think Tunch is necessarily feeling murderous. I think his look is more of a “What the fuck am I doing in this goddamn cage?”

    And whoever said Lily looks baked…. yeah, I concur.

    Great picture!

  97. 97.

    WereBear

    @jeffreyw: Squirt bottle can be good to keep them away from certain things, but they need substitutes; cats only ask for what they need.

    Since we have so many electronics, old books, and musical instruments that would not like to get wet, we prefer the Can o’ Air.

  98. 98.

    BethanyAnne

    One of my cats, Suli, is easy to get into the carrier; just pick her up and put her there. Cheyenne, tho… I’ve had to learn to throw a blanket on her. Last time I tried to box her without a blanket to work with, I ended up with stitches from her claws and a course of antiobiotics from being seriously bitten.

  100. 100.

    gogol's wife

    @mr. whipple:

    Yes, Louis is about the size of Punky, but a tuxedo cat. They had a joke on LOLcats the other day about “My tuxedo doesn’t fit any more.” That reminded me of Lou. Punky is beautiful!

  103. 103.

    Mnemosyne

    @WereBear:

    Then I got a top loading soft carrier. Sweet.

    We had one of those for Keaton. He tore it to shreds. He still uses it as his kitty den when he needs a good sleep away from the others.

    We got a second one, but he figured out how to unzip it from the inside. (I’m telling you, he’s a frighteningly smart cat.) It’s a little unnerving to look in your rear-view window while driving 70 on the freeway and see the cat strolling around in the back seat.

    Now he has a plastic one that opens on both top and side. It wasn’t cheap, but it was worth it to keep our little Houdini in his carrier.

  104. 104.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    @WereBear:

    Totally unrelated but that is Cueball’s method of opening doors, any door, even locked ones. He (the white boxer) is 90+ lbs and he just shoves his shoulder against offending door and busts it open. This is usually when I am in the bathroom and I have locked the door to keep him out.

  109. 109.

    Zuzu's Petals

    So here’s the video of teabagger spittle hitting Cleaver in the face:

    Incident in Washington
    (Starting at about 1:25)

    Pretty much as Cleaver described it:

    Cleaver told me: “I said to this one person, ‘You spat on me.’ I thought he was going to say, ‘Hey, I was yelling. Sorry.’ But he continuing yelling and, for a few seconds, I pointed at him and said, ‘You spat on me.’ ”

    “I would prefer to believe that the man who allowed his saliva to hit my face was irrational for a moment,” Cleaver said.

    BTW, notice the big ol’ neo-Nazi flag being carried around (right to left) towards the end of the clip? Classy group.

  110. 110.

    HRA

    @David Hunt:

    “Tunch made some ungodly sounds the whole ride up

    So that’s what that noise was. I thought I’d be safe from it down here in Texas.”

    A complete WIN!

    Crying from laughing so hard.

  111. 111.

    MikeJ

    @Zuzu’s Petals:

    neo-Nazi flag

    Which flag is it? I saw a Tennessee state flag, but no neo-Nazi. Of course I don’t know what a neo-nazi flag would look like (that’s what I went to see.)

  113. 113.

    Gian

    the neo-nazi flag I think is the red flag, white circlr with what might be three black hammers inside? the wall was on HD net recently, so maybe I’m just seeing the hammers there. the guy waving it is marching behind the guy with old glory near the end of the video clip

  114. 114.

    Annie

    @BethanyAnne:

    Oh…I know the feeling, and I have the scars…

    One of mine, our girl, will go for the ankles at a moment’s notice (like this morning when I accidentially bought tuna light instead of tuna regular), while, thankfully, my big boy just sits and purrs and purrs…

  116. 116.

    You Don't Say

    Don’t cats in cars make the most annoying noise in the world? And when I moved a few years back my dog had more trouble adjusting than my cats.

  118. 118.

    RedKitten

    Yeah, the look on Tunch’s face is definitely “You have GOT to be fucking kidding me, right?”

    I’m very excited for you about the move, though! Take your time with the unpacking — you’ll be surprised how much of your stuff is actually rather non-essential.

  120. 120.

    Gemina13

    That is one seriously pissed-off Tunch. :D Poor guy. Actually it should be, “poor John,” because I’m betting you’ve had your ass howled at nonstop.

  121. 121.

    R-Jud

    The cat I adopted after college ate her way out of the cardboard carrier the shelter gave me on the trip home.

    We were on the El in Chicago. During the tail end of rush hour. That was not fun.

  122. 122.

    WereBear

    The most hilarious was when Olwyn was a tiny thing and could still fit in the chinchilla carrier I borrowed from a friend.

    Borrowing a carrier is my usual emergency measure when there are two cats who need to go to the vet at the same time, but this particular time my usuals were both on vacation.

    I seem doomed to be noticed in the vet waiting room.

  123. 123.

    madmommy

    Poor Tunch. He definitely looks pissed off. He’s hatching a devious plot, I just know it!

    I’ve found the easiest way to get the feline into the carrier is to stand it on end, pick up kitty and ease them, headfirst, into the carrier. Let gravity be your friend. You’ve got to be quick with the door latching though. Otherwise they hit the bottom and spring back out with amazing quickness. My cat travels pretty well, yowling for the first few miles then settling down. We take him on a 6 hour road trip to grandma’s 3-4 times a year. More if you count hurricane evacuations.

    Go Mountaineers!!

  124. 124.

    Zuzu's Petals

    @MikeJ:

    Starting at about 3:00 you’ll see a red flag with a white circle and a triskele in the middle being carried from the right hand side of the screen to the left.

    It’s also a white supremacist symbol.

  127. 127.

    Phoebe

    I love love love that picture. Thank you thank you.

    I took a six day drive to Alaska with two cats [and my things and a covered litterbox] loose in the car, a two door hatchback. Carlo spent his time under the passenger seat, and Peaches was like Mr. Whipple’s cat, either stretched out on my lap, the dashboard [she was pretty small], or whatever. I came back from the gas station [pay inside] to see her presiding, sphinxlike, on the laundry basket behind the two front seats, front paws tucked in, totally serene. The cutest thing on Earth. Somewhere there are pictures of her craning her head out of a half open window when we were stopped because there were buffalo in the road. So you never know.

  128. 128.

    Don K

    A few years ago my partner and I had a cat named Jackie (RIP), who we would take with us on our twice-yearly trips to Massachusetts. She was fine with being in the carrier, but as soon as there was any motion she would begin moaning. So all the way to the airport (say 45 minutes) there was the moaning. I had to carry her through security, and she was usually freaked enough by the lights and people that she would hang onto my shirt or jacket for dear life (although she did get me on the chin once). Sitting at the gate was fine, then once the plane left the gate there was the moaning for two hours from DTW to PVD (luckily mostly muffled by the sound of the engines). Oh, and she was fine in the car out of the carrier if we were driving at night. She would stand on Wade’s lap with her front paws on the windowsill and stare at the pretty lights going by.

    Now we have two cats, so no more plane travel (Wade’s in a wheelchair and in no position to carry a cat through security, and I’m damned if I’ll try to go through with two). Their only travel is to the vet, which luckily is a mile (maybe three minutes) away. For that time I can handle the yowling, although it is the most unsettling noise imaginable – it sounds like someone is disemboweling them.

  129. 129.

    Zuzu's Petals

    @madmommy:

    So it is!

    I had to freeze the frame and take a good close look, but yeppers…state flag it is.

    Sorry everybody. Or as Gilda would say: “Never mind.”

  131. 131.

    madmommy

    @Zuzu’s Petals:

    They are similar, and when in motion and at an angle, it’d be easy to mistake one for the other. It only caught my eye when I watched the vid because I lived in TN for so long. Now I’m kinda creeped out by the similarities. Given the Confederate tendencies most other southern states take with their flags, I’d always thought that TN was decent, comparatively speaking.

  133. 133.

    :Libertini

    @John Cole

    no bitching about taking pics while driving

    OK, but can I point out that Lily should be crated or harnessed for car rides as well? Most doggies like (lurve!!) car rides, but allowing them to ride unrestrained in the car can be quite dangerous, to them, and to you.

    That said, she looks sooooo happy. You are a good doggie daddy.

  136. 136.

    ellie

    I drove cross country four times with one of my cats. She meowed for three states each way.

  138. 138.

    Gian

    I froze the video at 3:27 that flag doesn’t have three white stars on a blue circle on a red flag, they are not stars, they are black, in a white circle on a red flag.

    I wish that wasn’t what I see, but well it is what I see. – the comments at you tube reflect that others see the same thing I did. as to how many of the the teabaggers swallowed having a nazi flag at their rally, I don’t know, one of their smears about Obama is that he’s a Nazi…

  139. 139.

    TrishB

    Apropos of nothing (other than animal stuff), I just found out that following a newly blind diabetic schnauzer around an incredibly uneven and very muddy yard with a urine test strips is even less fun than it sounds at first. Let’s not mention trying to figure out how to place the strip effectively in the dark. I’ll be washing my jeans now. Somehow, I got mud on both my knees and my ass when I fell.

  140. 140.

    Zuzu's Petals

    @Gian:

    Well, I did finally see a white stripe on the end, like the TN flag. And when I froze it at a couple of places, I could see stars.

    But maybe it’s a little like the vase and silhouette trick picture…depends on how you look at it.

  142. 142.

    CynDee

    @Phoenix Woman:

    Lillidog, on the other hand, is a living doll.

    You’ve just designed a MUST-Have tee shirt: The U-Haul pic of Lily in closeup (what a cute little smile) with caption “Living Doll.”

    As for Tunch, I think he looks stunned: “I’m. RIDING. In. a. TRUCK.”

  143. 143.

    Gian

    to Zuzu’s Petals:

    it may be that people focus on different things? the video has more than one red as base color flag, and it could easily be that I failed to see the state flag clearly – I do see a red flag on the right side, which may be the one the gentlefolk here see
    at about 3:23 the one I’m 99 and 44/100 certain is not the state flag in just about in the middle of the frame, slightly higher than the center. I had my eyes checked about 5 months ago and have a recent prescription and a 24 inch monitor, but my mom is getting shots in her eyes, and my dad just had eye surgery, so I could easily be wrong and a massive danger to all of you on the road

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    Zuzu's Petals

    @Gian:

    That’s the one. Pull the 3:27 freeze frame up on full screen and then compare it to this.

    I had to be willing to “see the faces and not the vase” before I realized what I was looking at.

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    Lesley

    Everyone says Tunch looks pissed, but I can’t see anything in his expression that’s new. He looks his usually adorable grumpy self. Lily is also lovely…and she appears to be a little more plump than when you got her. You’re not Tunchifying Lily are you, Mr. Cole?

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    olga

    I see I’m a little bit late to the party, but if anyone’s still reading the comments here… THIS is how you get a cat into the carrier!

    (Any fellow NCIS fans here? Anybody?)

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    Angela

    When I have my cat in the carrier and in the car, I feel like she needs a tiny little cup to bang against the cage.

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