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Mission Accomplished!

by John Cole|  April 2, 20107:53 pm| 80 Comments

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I’m going to call this an unqualified success:

I didn’t even have to season the throw with catnip.

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  1. 1.

    Yutsano

    April 2, 2010 at 7:55 pm

    So you LIKE being toyed with? Nice to see he has his comfy spots in the new digs though, should make the transition much easier.

  2. 2.

    Lurker

    April 2, 2010 at 7:56 pm

    That Tunch pic is adorable.

  3. 3.

    furioso ateo

    April 2, 2010 at 7:56 pm

    This is what happens when you force feed your cat Lime Daquiris.

  4. 4.

    debit

    April 2, 2010 at 7:58 pm

    Cole, you’ve been a cat owner for how long? You can put anything down on a couch: blanket, jacket, towel, newspaper, laptop case, laptop, etc and it’s a sure bet the cat will lay down on it.

  5. 5.

    Bad Horse's Filly

    April 2, 2010 at 7:58 pm

    Tunch: Finally, I didn’t know what I was going to have to do to get him to break out my favorite throws. It coulda been ugly.

  6. 6.

    General Egali Tarian Stuck

    April 2, 2010 at 7:58 pm

    I am going to stand for your decorating color meld -fu, on this one. That is a fetching scene and down to earthy liberal like. Of course, I’m the guy with red curtains that beds down in a purple sleeping bag. I stay one step ahead of the long arm of fashion cops.

  7. 7.

    demo woman

    April 2, 2010 at 7:59 pm

    Yutsano, What transition? The cat moved in and said new furniture and a window, I hit the lottery.

  8. 8.

    Mike Kay

    April 2, 2010 at 7:59 pm

    How digya hook up with Tunch? Was he a rescue, too?

  9. 9.

    Yutsano

    April 2, 2010 at 8:00 pm

    This is what happens when you force feed your cat Lime Daquiris.

    Okay I can’t resist just because it popped into my head and it’s slightly OT: horses will drink beer. In fact if you let them they’ll get pissed on the stuff. Takes a LOT to get a horse drunk though.

  10. 10.

    hg

    April 2, 2010 at 8:00 pm

    Crap, the last pic of Lily was with her perched on the couch, cat-like. And this is a standard “dog” pose! I sense some wires getting crossed here :(

  11. 11.

    hg

    April 2, 2010 at 8:00 pm

    Crap, the last pic of Lily was with her perched on the couch, cat-like. And this is a standard “dog” pose! I sense some wires getting crossed here :(

  12. 12.

    scav

    April 2, 2010 at 8:01 pm

    This is what happens when you force feed your cat Lime Daquiris.

    And?

  13. 13.

    Bad Horse's Filly

    April 2, 2010 at 8:02 pm

    Also, pimping my own blog, but really JeffreyW. He made the most amazing looking Sesame Chicken, complete with pictures. He’s amazing. Mrs. J is well fed, that’s for sure.

  14. 14.

    Comrade Jake

    April 2, 2010 at 8:03 pm

    What, was the Walmart in West Virginia out of plastic wrap?

  15. 15.

    Genine

    April 2, 2010 at 8:04 pm

    Tunch just wanted his favorite throw back. That’s all. :-)

  16. 16.

    Comrade Jake

    April 2, 2010 at 8:05 pm

    Cole probably thinks this only worked because the blanket has pictures of cats on it.

  17. 17.

    Yutsano

    April 2, 2010 at 8:05 pm

    I saw that BHF, and right now I have zero ideas for dinner right at this moment. Only thing is I’m home alone right now and I’m not entirely in the mood to run to the store. Work sucked this week, I need to get on a plane and do nothing in Arizona for four days BAD.

  18. 18.

    Kristine

    April 2, 2010 at 8:05 pm

    I never realized that Tunch had those tan markings. What a sweetie!

  19. 19.

    Yutsano

    April 2, 2010 at 8:10 pm

    @ furioso ateo:

    BTW I’m re-posting this in your honor. Fair warning: it’s a cuteness overload.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/44164793@N05/4344908675/

  20. 20.

    furioso ateo

    April 2, 2010 at 8:12 pm

    @Yutsano

    The sentiment is appreciated, but I actually can’t get to flickr out here. Most media sites are blocked.

  21. 21.

    Yutsano

    April 2, 2010 at 8:15 pm

    but I actually can’t get to flickr out here.

    Grrr arrrgh growl snarl gnashing of teef. I guess you’ll have to trust that it’s cute and it also applies to your situation. And it involves puppehs.

  22. 22.

    mr. whipple

    April 2, 2010 at 8:16 pm

    Cats find rectangles irresistible.

  23. 23.

    furioso ateo

    April 2, 2010 at 8:16 pm

    @Yutsano

    So it isn’t a picture of a guy throwing a puppy over a cliff?

  24. 24.

    General Egali Tarian Stuck

    April 2, 2010 at 8:18 pm

    Music to unwind by

    The Innocence Mission – Every Hour Here

  25. 25.

    Yutsano

    April 2, 2010 at 8:18 pm

    @ furioso ateo

    Uhh, no. It’s a puppy peeking out the window of a Humvee. I remember that whole mishegas though.

  26. 26.

    slag

    April 2, 2010 at 8:19 pm

    Huzzah!

    Although one of these cats doesn’t belong here.

    Did Tunch just want to be surrounded by cats that are actually doing stuff? So he could feel superior maybe?

  27. 27.

    kommrade reproductive vigor

    April 2, 2010 at 8:20 pm

    The mighty tyrant rests between reigns of terror.

  28. 28.

    General Egali Tarian Stuck

    April 2, 2010 at 8:21 pm

    Clear to you

  29. 29.

    JGabriel

    April 2, 2010 at 8:21 pm

    Just saw the Clemons story alleging that WH Access is granted based on positive coverage.

    I’m sure it’s already be said, but what a shame that Karl Rove & Ari Fleischer never tried anything like that. Too principled, I guess.

    .

  30. 30.

    Anne Laurie

    April 2, 2010 at 8:21 pm

    O kaeri nasai (welcome home), John.

    “A house without a cat — a well-fed and contented cat — may be a home, but how can it prove its title?”

  31. 31.

    Yutsano

    April 2, 2010 at 8:22 pm

    @ GETS:

    I actually was just running this in my head:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krMvlYxWe2c&feature=related

    And no I don’t mean Bette Midler talking. Sheesh!

  32. 32.

    Mike Kay

    April 2, 2010 at 8:25 pm

    @furioso ateo Where is “out here”?

  33. 33.

    Bad Horse's Filly

    April 2, 2010 at 8:26 pm

    @Yutsano: I think if he’s going to tempt us like this, he’s going to have to start a delivery service.

    Again I ask, where the bl$#p is my reply arrow?

  34. 34.

    WereBear

    April 2, 2010 at 8:27 pm

    I always put the throw where the cat likes to sleep. Gets ’em every time.

  35. 35.

    SiubhanDuinne

    April 2, 2010 at 8:27 pm

    RIP, John Forsythe (age 92, though)

    Re the Tunch photo: sorry, I’m having one of those moments when looking at that pic is like viewing an optical illusion and I can only see one view of it. Those two smudges or whatewver in front, are they supposed to be his *eyes* or what? If so, they’re set kind of oddly. The BB screen is tiny, so I can’t really embiggen this until I’m back at a desktop. I’ll try this again in a couple of hours. Maybe my brain will relax a bit and I can see it more accurately.

  36. 36.

    Yutsano

    April 2, 2010 at 8:28 pm

    @ Anne Laurie:

    Tadaima.:)

    @ BHF: I think really only one of us is close enough to go camp out and feast for days at his place. That individual is also fake-married to me and doesn’t cook so she would be in Paradise!

  37. 37.

    General Egali Tarian Stuck

    April 2, 2010 at 8:29 pm

    And no I don’t mean Bette Midler talking. Sheesh!

    I like Bette. Never saw Fantasia though.

  38. 38.

    furioso ateo

    April 2, 2010 at 8:30 pm

    @Mike Kay

    Bagram, Afghanistan.

  39. 39.

    Carrie

    April 2, 2010 at 8:30 pm

    Maitre d’: Good evening sir and how are we today?
    Mr. Tunch: Better.
    Maitre d’: Better?
    Mr. Tunch: Better get a buckettt. I’m gonna throw up

  40. 40.

    Yutsano

    April 2, 2010 at 8:32 pm

    I like Bette. Never saw Fantasia though.

    Her intro is just fine, I just am partial to Russian composers. That particular segment got a lot of flak for the big changes to the ending of the story. It’s Disney people jeez, did you expect them to be totally faithful to Mulan too? BTW I will go on the record and say I liked Mulan, feel free to mock me as you wish.

  41. 41.

    PurpleGirl

    April 2, 2010 at 8:33 pm

    SiubhanDuinne @ 8:27 pm — It looks to me that Tunch has his head sort of pointed downwards; the colored patches are above his eyes, more on the top of his head.

  42. 42.

    SiubhanDuinne

    April 2, 2010 at 8:33 pm

    He looks like an inebriated baby panda in a yarmulke. No offense.

  43. 43.

    Yutsano

    April 2, 2010 at 8:34 pm

    @ SiubhanDuinne:

    Does this mean if John hosts a seder it will be gefilte fish and nothing else?

    I go haz nap now. BBL y’all.

  44. 44.

    beltane

    April 2, 2010 at 8:36 pm

    There is a fox prowling around near my chicken coop right now (they’re locked up safe), and my dog is just lying down on the bed with a concerned look on her face. She will be afraid to go out in the morning.

    I guess Labs are not the best livestock guardian dogs.

  45. 45.

    RedKitten

    April 2, 2010 at 8:37 pm

    Awwww….he DOES look like he’s wearing a tiny yarmulke! That’s just adorable!

  46. 46.

    Mike Kay

    April 2, 2010 at 8:40 pm

    @furioso ateo Oh, cool. Digya get to see the President last Sunday?

  47. 47.

    Chuck Butcher

    April 2, 2010 at 8:41 pm

    since none of the other cretins around here will say it, John that’s a pretty good color combo…

  48. 48.

    JK

    April 2, 2010 at 8:41 pm

    Assholes of the week

    Lt. Col. Terry Lakin, an Army physician, has refused to obey any orders from his commanding officers — including President Obama — until Obama produces his birth certificate.
    h/t http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/01/terry-lakin-army-birther_n_521549.html

    Florida urologist Jack Cassell posted a sign on his office door reading, “If you voted for Obama … seek urologic care elsewhere. Changes to your health care begin right now, not in four years.”
    h/t http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/02/jack-cassell-doctor-refus_n_523076.html

  49. 49.

    jeffreyw

    April 2, 2010 at 8:42 pm

    Thanks, BHF, and a good doggie daddy, too.

  50. 50.

    Annie

    April 2, 2010 at 8:43 pm

    @ SiubhanDuinne

    LOL. Clearly someone had more than the traditional four small glasses of wine at the sedar….

  51. 51.

    furioso ateo

    April 2, 2010 at 8:44 pm

    @Mike Kay

    Sure did. The speech wasn’t anything impressive, just standard boiler plate “blah blah, America loves you, keep up the fight, you guys are the shit, blah blah” stuff. The experience was neat though, I’d never gotten a chance to see him speak. Got to shake his hand too, but only for a sec.

  52. 52.

    Bad Horse's Filly

    April 2, 2010 at 8:47 pm

    @JeffreyW – is Buddy remote controlled? Funny, I always thought he was a real dog. Bwhahahah!

  53. 53.

    Annie

    April 2, 2010 at 8:47 pm

    @furioso ateo

    Did you notice he is black? It’s true. It says so on his census form…

  54. 54.

    Mike Kay

    April 2, 2010 at 8:48 pm

    @furioso ateo

    What’s McChrystal like, is he cool?

  55. 55.

    SiubhanDuinne

    April 2, 2010 at 8:50 pm

    How is this cat different from all other cats?

    Love the gefilte-fish only seder.

    Next year on the futon!

  56. 56.

    Bad Horse's Filly

    April 2, 2010 at 8:51 pm

    @Annie – Win!

  57. 57.

    demo woman

    April 2, 2010 at 8:52 pm

    JK@48.. Lakin needs to be kicked out of the service and since he has only served 18 years seems like he will not be due pension. I certainly don’t want my tax money supporting him.

  58. 58.

    furioso ateo

    April 2, 2010 at 8:54 pm

    @Mike Kay

    Yeah, he’s a chill dude. He took me for a ride on his helicopter, and then we smoked some pot.

  59. 59.

    demkat620

    April 2, 2010 at 8:55 pm

    Tunchie! He looks content. That’s all you can ask for in a cat.

  60. 60.

    AhabTRuler

    April 2, 2010 at 8:59 pm

    @furioso ateo: Bet he has the good shit.

  61. 61.

    SIA

    April 2, 2010 at 9:01 pm

    Back in hot ‘Lanta yay! TGIF!!

  62. 62.

    eemom

    April 2, 2010 at 9:02 pm

    Let’s not start sucking each other’s you-know-whats just yet.

    I do not think the kitty intends to STAY on the throw.

  63. 63.

    Annie

    April 2, 2010 at 9:04 pm

    @furioso ateo

    During the Bosnian war I was flown into Sarajevo on a US military food aid flight. At that time I was about 100lbs, and as I am only 5 feet tall, I quickly realized that they don’t make helmuts and flax jackets in petite….When the military guys stopped laughing, I asked for help getting in and out of the plane…

  64. 64.

    General Egali Tarian Stuck

    April 2, 2010 at 9:09 pm

    I quickly realized that they don’t make helmuts and flax jackets in petite

    Military clothes aren’t supposed to fit. The fatigue pants they gave me in basic only reached to mid shin. Too much comfort is bad for morale, or something.

  65. 65.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    April 2, 2010 at 9:10 pm

    Annie – they don’t make gas masks in petite either, I was sick and tired of getting gassed every year when the annual “gas mask” test was required, I eventually started bribing my male colleagues with copious amounts of beer to test my mask for me, cause damn I was tired of getting gassed.

    PS) Where the hell did the reply function go to? Did tunch eated it?

  66. 66.

    AhabTRuler

    April 2, 2010 at 9:14 pm

    make helmuts and flax jackets in petite…

    I do love linen, and Germans do tend to be on the hefty side.

  67. 67.

    General Egali Tarian Stuck

    April 2, 2010 at 9:16 pm

    Ahab

    The seed oil will keep you regular, I heard.

  68. 68.

    Mike Kay

    April 2, 2010 at 9:19 pm

    @furioso ateo yeah, Karzi has good connections.

  69. 69.

    Annie

    April 2, 2010 at 9:20 pm

    @General Egali Tarian Stuck

    The military guys nicknamed me “lips,” as the helmut came down down to my mouth, and the flax jacket to my knees. Only my complaining mouth was visible….

  70. 70.

    Annie

    April 2, 2010 at 9:21 pm

    @AhabTRuler

    LOL………..

  71. 71.

    General Egali Tarian Stuck

    April 2, 2010 at 9:23 pm

    Annie

    LOL.

  72. 72.

    AhabTRuler

    April 2, 2010 at 9:26 pm

    Much love, it’s a flak jacket (and a helmet, unless you were wearing a former German Chancellor on your head, but that’s not important right now).

    But don’t worry, I’m just a dog pedant (I think this works out better for Geo. Clinton).

  73. 73.

    Annie

    April 2, 2010 at 9:31 pm

    @AhabTRuler

    yep…I stand, or sit corrected…I do plead a dispensation…I spent the day convincing 25 students that yes, there is life after graduate school….

    Much love…:D

  74. 74.

    jl

    April 2, 2010 at 9:32 pm

    It is an adorable pic of The Tunch.

    But as to the caption: Beware, John Cole, I sense Tunch is setting someting up. It’s a trick. Leave the house now! Right now!

  75. 75.

    RedKitten

    April 2, 2010 at 9:36 pm

    I’m probably tired, but for some reason, this made me laugh ’till I cried.

  76. 76.

    General Egali Tarian Stuck

    April 2, 2010 at 9:59 pm

    I’m probably tired, but for some reason, this made me laugh ‘till I cried.

    when I still had my little hamster army a few years ago, I could watch them for hours and laugh so hard my side would hurt. they are natural born comedians.

  77. 77.

    CynDee

    April 2, 2010 at 10:06 pm

    @ John Cole:

    I’m going to call this an unqualified success:

    Look in the mirror and you’ll see another one. Meeyow!

  78. 78.

    Yutsano

    April 2, 2010 at 11:32 pm

    @ RedKitten:

    Oh man, I may have to go out and see if HamsterDance is still out there.

    EDIT: found it:

    http://www.webhamster.com/

  79. 79.

    asiangrrlMN

    April 3, 2010 at 6:48 am

    OK. I now understand how this works. I don’t show up at night, and a Tunch piccie gets posted! Man, I love that cat with a passion that is a tad unseemly. Don’t judge me!

    Yutsano, after seeing the sesame chicken in an earlier thread, I asked jeffreyw how long it would take me to drive to his place. Oh my god that looks amazing.

    Gen. Stuck, thanks for the music. I’m grooving to it now. I needed my mellow.

    A happy Tunchie makes for a happy BJ community!

  80. 80.

    Joy

    April 3, 2010 at 8:01 am

    I love Tunch photos.

    and Lily photos too.

    They make my heart happy.

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