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I don’t know about you…

by Sarah, Proud and Tall|  May 26, 201111:23 am| 45 Comments

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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

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45Comments

  1. 1.

    Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther

    May 26, 2011 at 11:24 am

    BWAhahahaha!

    I mean: Yes. Thank you for keeping tabs on this breaking story.

  2. 2.

    merrinc

    May 26, 2011 at 11:29 am

    So much awesome in one brief post. I’m having a shitty day so thanks for the laugh.

  3. 3.

    Scott

    May 26, 2011 at 11:30 am

    I don’t know about that video. I just don’t like the idea of comparing Tunch to Chris Christie.

  4. 4.

    Comrade Mary

    May 26, 2011 at 11:33 am

    Yeah. Tunch’s approval ratings are way higher.

  5. 5.

    Omnes Omnibus

    May 26, 2011 at 11:33 am

    The judge in the Wisconsin collective bargaining law case issued a permanent injunction against the law this morning.

  6. 6.

    JGabriel

    May 26, 2011 at 11:34 am

    Scott:

    I just don’t like the idea of comparing Tunch to Chris Christie.

    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.

    .

  7. 7.

    Comrade Mary

    May 26, 2011 at 11:38 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: Yay! But the bastards will just pass it again. Well, maybe constituent pressure on some Republicans might work. Maybe.

  8. 8.

    jeffreyw

    May 26, 2011 at 11:39 am

    Sign up for Google alerts and include the search terms: “West Virginia”, “wildcat”, and “unholy terror”.

  9. 9.

    Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal

    May 26, 2011 at 11:39 am

    well, in the comic strip, didn’t john cole arbuckle 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.

  10. 10.

    Yutsano

    May 26, 2011 at 11:39 am

    @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!

  11. 11.

    jeffreyw

    May 26, 2011 at 11:40 am

    Let’s do lunch.

  12. 12.

    OG

    May 26, 2011 at 11:41 am

    Could the cat get a gig on Dancing with the Stars?

  13. 13.

    Sarah Proud and Tall

    May 26, 2011 at 11:42 am

    @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.

  14. 14.

    Omnes Omnibus

    May 26, 2011 at 11:44 am

    @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.

  15. 15.

    The Republic of Stupidity

    May 26, 2011 at 11:45 am

    Don’t know if this is considered an open thread…

    But this is just waaaaaaaaay too good to pass up…

    How Nazi Scientists Tried to Create an Army of Talking Dogs

    The headline alone is priceless…

    Arf Wiedersehen, Mein Fuhrer!

  16. 16.

    Yutsano

    May 26, 2011 at 11:46 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: And the Patriot Act may die tonight at midnight. I’m almost giddy.

  17. 17.

    Omnes Omnibus

    May 26, 2011 at 11:49 am

    @Yutsano: Linky? I would be thrilled, but I thought it was being renewed.

  18. 18.

    4jkb4ia

    May 26, 2011 at 11:51 am

    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?

  19. 19.

    Yutsano

    May 26, 2011 at 11:52 am

    Who knew Rand Paul actually had a fucking purpose?

    (warning: HuffPo link)

  20. 20.

    Sentient Puddle

    May 26, 2011 at 11:53 am

    @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.

  21. 21.

    Suffern ACE

    May 26, 2011 at 11:57 am

    @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.

  22. 22.

    Omnes Omnibus

    May 26, 2011 at 11:57 am

    @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.

  23. 23.

    Comrade Javamanphil

    May 26, 2011 at 11:59 am

    Tunch knew you had a fully charged camera. You are so getting smothered in your sleep tonight.

  24. 24.

    shortstop

    May 26, 2011 at 11:59 am

    Wait, did Yutsano just predict what jeffreyw was making for lunch? I may need more coffee.

  25. 25.

    4jkb4ia

    May 26, 2011 at 12:00 pm

    As of today, I have been married 9 years. Not that that was important or anything.

    (Second break gotten back)

  26. 26.

    Jay in Oregon

    May 26, 2011 at 12:12 pm

    @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…

  27. 27.

    Villago Delenda Est

    May 26, 2011 at 12:13 pm

    @4jkb4ia:

    Congratulations! I think you’re competing pretty closely with Newt Gingrich and other Hollywood personalities on longevity…

  28. 28.

    Sentient Puddle

    May 26, 2011 at 12:15 pm

    @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.

  29. 29.

    Sarah Proud and Tall

    May 26, 2011 at 12:15 pm

    @4jkb4ia:

    Well done, dear.

  30. 30.

    Omnes Omnibus

    May 26, 2011 at 12:18 pm

    @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.

  31. 31.

    Tom Levenson

    May 26, 2011 at 12:26 pm

    @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

  32. 32.

    Omnes Omnibus

    May 26, 2011 at 12:33 pm

    @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.

  33. 33.

    Gravenstone

    May 26, 2011 at 12:35 pm

    @Sarah Proud and Tall: Go for the landcrawler they used to move the Saturn V to the pad back in the Apollo days.

  34. 34.

    Poopyman

    May 26, 2011 at 12:38 pm

    @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.

  35. 35.

    Poopyman

    May 26, 2011 at 12:40 pm

    @Tom Levenson: Hey, aren’t you still in the antipodes?

  36. 36.

    shortstop

    May 26, 2011 at 12:46 pm

    Hey! Scotty Walker’s making Johnsonville braaaaaaaaaaats!

  37. 37.

    Morbo

    May 26, 2011 at 12:49 pm

    @The Republic of Stupidity: No doubt they were inspired by the Finnish dog mocking him.

  38. 38.

    Tom Levenson

    May 26, 2011 at 12:55 pm

    @Poopyman: Yup, and still working on the talk I give tonight. But I just can’t quit this site…

  39. 39.

    Origuy

    May 26, 2011 at 1:09 pm

    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.

  40. 40.

    cckids

    May 26, 2011 at 1:23 pm

    @Origuy:

    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.

    Jesus. Your tax dollars at work. It has ever been so.

  41. 41.

    Omnes Omnibus

    May 26, 2011 at 1:26 pm

    @Origuy: Cat Island was clearly the wrong place to do any kind of dog training. Too many distractions.

  42. 42.

    asiangrrlMN

    May 26, 2011 at 3:11 pm

    @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.

  43. 43.

    HRA

    May 26, 2011 at 3:44 pm

    @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.

  44. 44.

    Yes, Matress

    May 26, 2011 at 3:44 pm

    BOOOOORRRRRNNNN FREEEEEEEEEE, as free as the horn blows, as free as the something, something…

  45. 45.

    HRA

    May 26, 2011 at 3:46 pm

    @4jkb4ia:

    Congratulations! G and I thought this was a good date to get married and we did 27 years ago.

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