but the suspense is killing me.
I’ve been googling, but have not yet managed to find any reports of a five tonne cat going rogue and eating six people and a fat Jack Russell somewhere in West Virginia. I’ll keep looking.
ETA: I always imagine John transporting Tunch to the vet as looking something like this:
EATA: @John Cole
I’m saddened.
Much less exciting than expected, because
I could never find Tunch andTunch hid behind a large lorry and the tranquilizer gun wasn’t working so I had to reschedule him.
FTFY
Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther
BWAhahahaha!
I mean: Yes. Thank you for keeping tabs on this breaking story.
merrinc
So much awesome in one brief post. I’m having a shitty day so thanks for the laugh.
Scott
I don’t know about that video. I just don’t like the idea of comparing Tunch to Chris Christie.
Comrade Mary
Yeah. Tunch’s approval ratings are way higher.
Omnes Omnibus
The judge in the Wisconsin collective bargaining law case issued a permanent injunction against the law this morning.
JGabriel
Scott:
Now that’s just mean. There’s no need to insult … uh, actually, I’m not sure who’s the loser in that comparison.
I guess that makes it valid.
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Comrade Mary
@Omnes Omnibus: Yay! But the bastards will just pass it again. Well, maybe constituent pressure on some Republicans might work. Maybe.
jeffreyw
Sign up for Google alerts and include the search terms: “West Virginia”, “wildcat”, and “unholy terror”.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
well, in the comic strip, didn’t john
colearbuckle always hit on the vet, when ever he took garfield in to see her? didn’t they end up married eventually? i’m not saying i’m just saying.Yutsano
@Comrade Mary: Six Republicans are now facing recall. I’d call that a wee bit of pressure coming to bear.
@jeffreyw: Ooh…getting creative with the ramen noodles. Me likey!
jeffreyw
Let’s do lunch.
OG
Could the cat get a gig on Dancing with the Stars?
Sarah Proud and Tall
@Scott:
I was going to post one of those videos of people transporting whole buildings on the back of trucks. I suspect that would be a more accurate metaphor, but the rhino was cuter than a building.
Omnes Omnibus
@Yutsano:
@Comrade Mary:
I don’t see it passing again. Recalls are under way against senators and Walker will face one as soon as his grace period is up. I think they got one bite at this particular apple and it did not work for them.
The Republic of Stupidity
Don’t know if this is considered an open thread…
But this is just waaaaaaaaay too good to pass up…
The headline alone is priceless…
Yutsano
@Omnes Omnibus: And the Patriot Act may die tonight at midnight. I’m almost giddy.
Omnes Omnibus
@Yutsano: Linky? I would be thrilled, but I thought it was being renewed.
4jkb4ia
Whoa! Caroline Garcia, 17-year-old French kid, one set and two breaks up on Sharapova! sluggahjells called it. sluggahjells is also correct that you never count Sharapova out.
And what Ellaesther said.
ETA: See, she got one of those breaks back.
ETA 2: Jeebus, Andujar actually got a break up on Nadal. What is going on today?
Yutsano
Who knew Rand Paul actually had a fucking purpose?
(warning: HuffPo link)
Sentient Puddle
@Comrade Mary: I myself still don’t get why they haven’t passed it again already. The judge made clear earlier that this whole thing could be rendered moot if they just did that.
Suffern ACE
@The Republic of Stupidity: I read about that this morning. The version I read had a rather unfortunate joke in it about how the Nazis should have put the scientists behind it in concentration camps (that one never gets old…ha ha.) Anyway, what I found interesting is that the scientists were claiming that they were actually making progress by telling a series of ridiculous stories. They probably weren’t actually scientists, though; probably more like a modern think tank with a very compliant press corps.
Omnes Omnibus
@Sentient Puddle: I don’t think that they can. I think that they less insane GOP folk won’t go along again. Also too, the senators who are facing recall would have no hope of surviving it if they do this again.
Comrade Javamanphil
Tunch knew you had a fully charged camera. You are so getting smothered in your sleep tonight.
shortstop
Wait, did Yutsano just predict what jeffreyw was making for lunch? I may need more coffee.
4jkb4ia
As of today, I have been married 9 years. Not that that was important or anything.
(Second break gotten back)
Jay in Oregon
@shortstop:
My guess is, he went back and edited his post after jeffreyw’s post. It can be kinda fun to mess with people’s heads that way…
Villago Delenda Est
@4jkb4ia:
Congratulations! I think you’re competing pretty closely with Newt Gingrich and other Hollywood personalities on longevity…
Sentient Puddle
@Omnes Omnibus: Well true, right now they’d be shooting themselves in the foot. But I don’t see why they didn’t do it the moment the initial injunction was handed down. The recall effort hadn’t really hit its stride at that point.
Sarah Proud and Tall
@4jkb4ia:
Well done, dear.
Omnes Omnibus
@Sentient Puddle: The theory here in Madison is that they would have been forced to admit that they had fucked up. Being who they are, they just can’t do that.
Tom Levenson
@Omnes Omnibus: Even better: controversy over sausage company donations to Gov. Walker (thug-WI) splits the annual brat festival.
That’s the next thing to war in Wisconsin, I believe
Omnes Omnibus
@Tom Levenson: It is very upsetting. It could tear apart marriages. Then again, the state survived the haddock vs walleye Friday fish fry wars of the 1970s and 80s; hopefully, we will survive this.
Gravenstone
@Sarah Proud and Tall: Go for the landcrawler they used to move the Saturn V to the pad back in the Apollo days.
Poopyman
@Tom Levenson: Damn! I shouldn’t have read that right before lunch, ’cause what I brought ain’t nothin’ like what I just read about. Sigh.
Poopyman
@Tom Levenson: Hey, aren’t you still in the antipodes?
shortstop
Hey! Scotty Walker’s making Johnsonville braaaaaaaaaaats!
Morbo
@The Republic of Stupidity: No doubt they were inspired by the Finnish dog mocking him.
Tom Levenson
@Poopyman: Yup, and still working on the talk I give tonight. But I just can’t quit this site…
Origuy
The PBS show History Detectives did a segment about a U.S. Army program during WWII that was trying to train dogs to sniff out Japanese. Some crackpot Swiss refugee named William Prestre claimed that dogs could distinguish between people of Japanese ancestry and those of European ancestry. The Army set up a program on Cat Island, Mississippi, and used Japanese-Americans as bait to train the dogs. Prestre wanted them to train thousands of dogs as the first wave of an invasion. It failed, of course, and the Army soon gave up the idea. Transcript.
cckids
@Origuy:
Jesus. Your tax dollars at work. It has ever been so.
Omnes Omnibus
@Origuy: Cat Island was clearly the wrong place to do any kind of dog training. Too many distractions.
asiangrrlMN
@Jay in Oregon: It’s a little trick I taught him awhile back, and he’s been having great fun with it ever since.
I’m sad that I didn’t get to see a pic of mah Tunchie, even if it’s one of him like this.
HRA
@shortstop:
Am I ever glad you mentioned Yutsano predicting Jeffrey’s food. I was going to keep quiet and make an appointment with my doctor.
Yes, Matress
BOOOOORRRRRNNNN FREEEEEEEEEE, as free as the horn blows, as free as the something, something…
HRA
@4jkb4ia:
Congratulations! G and I thought this was a good date to get married and we did 27 years ago.