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Tuesday Afternoon Open Thread

by Betty Cracker|  October 25, 20162:53 pm| 107 Comments

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Have we seen this one before?

Vet tech is trying to restrain a large dog (possibly a mastiff?) to trim its nails, and the dog bolts with the vet tech hanging on like a bronco buster. I love the woman who collapses with laughter after her colleague is carried off by the runaway beast.

My dogs are somewhat unruly at home but good as gold at the vet’s office. Go figure.

Open thread!

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  1. 1.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 25, 2016 at 2:56 pm

    My kittehs too. Bosscat is a mouse at the vet’s office, his cattitude is reserved for me alone.

  2. 2.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 25, 2016 at 2:57 pm

    Vote early and vote often in our Movie Club poll.

  3. 3.

    low-tech cyclist

    October 25, 2016 at 2:59 pm

    There’s almost always an appropriate Dylan lyric:

    If dogs run free, why not me
    Across the swamp of time?
    My mind weaves a symphony
    And tapestry of rhyme
    Oh, winds which rush my tale to thee
    So it may flow and be
    To each his own, it’s all unknown
    If dogs run free

  4. 4.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    October 25, 2016 at 3:00 pm

    That’s actually how rodeos started.

  5. 5.

    Emerald

    October 25, 2016 at 3:02 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: Voted “The Uninvited” because it was one pf my Dad’s faves, but all three are great flicks!

  6. 6.

    LAO

    October 25, 2016 at 3:02 pm

    Holy shit, that was funny!

    I dropped Maggie the puppy at the vet this morning for her spaying and she could not wait to (1) walk in the door and (2) leave with the nice man (the Vet). I figure the retribution will come sometime tomorrow, after the effects of the anesthesia fully wear off.

  7. 7.

    catclub

    October 25, 2016 at 3:02 pm

    @Bill E Pilgrim: Trimming hooves of cattle?

  8. 8.

    Shell

    October 25, 2016 at 3:02 pm

    @low-tech cyclist: Where is Dylan these post-Noble Prize days?

  9. 9.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    October 25, 2016 at 3:04 pm

    @low-tech cyclist: “Blowin in the Wind” works also.

  10. 10.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    October 25, 2016 at 3:05 pm

    @catclub: Probably the Romans.

  11. 11.

    Nom de Plume

    October 25, 2016 at 3:06 pm

    @Emerald: I went for “The Innocents”, mostly because I’ve seen it more recently than the others, and it genuinely unnerved me. But all three are worthy.

  12. 12.

    Shell

    October 25, 2016 at 3:07 pm

    Movie Club poll.

    I know every one is gonna chime in, but I’d add “The Curse Of The Demon” to the list. An adaption from the M. R. James story “Casting the Runes” (If you can find his short story collection, “A Warning To The Curious”, snap it up.)

  13. 13.

    germy

    October 25, 2016 at 3:08 pm

    Don’t fail me now!

  14. 14.

    germy

    October 25, 2016 at 3:09 pm

    @Shell: Touring. The endless tour.

  15. 15.

    donnah

    October 25, 2016 at 3:09 pm

    Our normally sweet and placid cat Fiona had to get shots at the vet’s not long ago. The vet was alongside her and the vet tech said she would hold Fiona still for the injection. I didn’t anticipate any problems because Fiona is as calm and un-ruffled as any feline I had ever seen.

    So the tech had a gentle hand on Fiona and the vet pushed the needle in…BAAM! Fiona launched herself onto the tech’s chest like the terrible crab from Alien, her front claws embedded in the tech’s shoulders and hind legs against her torso. I was immediately on my feet, apologizing and flustered. The vet was mildly amused, and the tech said she was fine, but Fiona was most certainly disgruntled.

  16. 16.

    PDX_ExPat

    October 25, 2016 at 3:13 pm

    This is exactly why I tell people, when they bring home a new member of the family, to start training early for nails.

    Start by touching paws gently and often (dogs tend not to like to have their paws handled at all). Graduate to holding paws firmly at irregular intervals without fiddling with nails. Once you get to nail trimming (or vet tech assistance) they still won’t like it but won’t feel threatened by it in most cases.

    I also let me dog sniff the clippers a few minutes before I clip so it is not a surprise what is coming. Ears drop, tail retracts but she resigns herself to the process without fighting it.

  17. 17.

    Emerald

    October 25, 2016 at 3:13 pm

    @Shell: There is an entire video game (soon to become a series) based on “A Warning to the Curious.” Great point and click adventure done by one guy living in Cornwall, UK, who uses his excellent photography as his artwork. The character movement is a bit old style (hey, it’s just one guy making the game), but if you like that story, try the game: The Lost Crown. Find it on Steam. Sequel: Blackenock, supposed to be out in time for yule.

    Jonathan Boakes, the game guy, is a major fan of M. R. James.

  18. 18.

    germy

    October 25, 2016 at 3:13 pm

    25 years without footprints

    The truth is that Rehnquist and Roberts never trusted Thomas to write an opinion in a big case that could command a majority of even his conservative colleagues.

    Why was this? It is because Thomas is not a conservative but, rather, a radical—one whose entire career on the Court has been devoted to undermining the rules of precedent in favor of his own idiosyncratic interpretation of the Constitution. By his own account, Thomas is an extreme originalist, one who is guided exclusively by his own understanding of what the words of the Constitution mean rather than what the other hundred and eleven people who have served on the Court in its history have judged them to mean. His vision is more reactionary than that of any Justice who has served on the Court since the nineteen-thirties, and his views are closest to those of the Justices who struck down much of the New Deal during that era.

  19. 19.

    trollhattan

    October 25, 2016 at 3:13 pm

    Our old dog has decided she’s had quite enough of this puppy, thank you very much, and has taken to trying to force her way out the various doors to the outside, or the garage in a pinch via head-butt or a swat with her (very long-clawed) paws. Such a ruckus. Spouse had to pull her out of the koi pond last weekend in what I suspect was a “goodbye cruel world” stunt. We have some issues to work through. The puppy just wants to play of course, but now that he’s her height she’s not amused.

    Families.

  20. 20.

    NotMax

    October 25, 2016 at 3:13 pm

    Had a hound once who so loved the vet’s office that when she would get it into her noggin to bolt, that’s to where she would make a beeline, and where she could always be found. Usually she could be found on the scale in the reception room. Seemed to get a kick out of just standing on it.

    Granted, vet’s office was only three doors down, but still….

  21. 21.

    japa21

    October 25, 2016 at 3:13 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: Glad to see that the best is getting the most votes. There are a couple of scenes in there that cause one to jump, but for the most part, it is lower key, which actually makes it scarier. By lower key, I mean it is not in your face horror.

  22. 22.

    Major Major Major Major

    October 25, 2016 at 3:13 pm

    @Shell: seeing as he doesn’t seem to have noticed I imagine he’s doing the same things.

  23. 23.

    catclub

    October 25, 2016 at 3:15 pm

    Spreading my share of good news Everyone!

    From HuffPo:

    An 81 percent majority of Americans say they wish this election were over, according to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll, with just 12 percent saying they’re enjoying watching things play out. More than three-quarters of people in both parties say they’re ready to move on.

    Your mileage may vary, and I can tell you that several of my esteemed Slate colleagues do not understand what I’m on about right now, but: 75 percent of Republicans being “ready to move on” does not read to me like a population primed for civil unrest. (And when I say “civil unrest” I mean riots in multiple cities, organized armed protest, etc.) It reads to me like a population that is ready to sublimate its feelings about this election into apathetic gridlock—aka our national status quo.

    Or maybe, a little less horrible news is practically good news.

  24. 24.

    trollhattan

    October 25, 2016 at 3:15 pm

    @NotMax:
    Oh god, that’s hilarious. Hound-dogies are quite the escape artists–have seen them climb impossible fences and even trees.

  25. 25.

    Eric U.

    October 25, 2016 at 3:16 pm

    I don’t usually pull vet duty, one of the kids usually does it. But I’ve taken the dogs to the kennel a lot of times, one of the dogs really loves going there. I could have hurt feelings about that, but I try not to hold it against him.

    @catclub: Trump voters around here can riot in their little towns** out in the country and nobody would notice. I think most Pennsyltuckians are pretty nice people for the most part and at this time they are a little ashamed that their party picked Trump. Or maybe I’m just extrapolating from the people I know.

    **of course, they could come to State College to riot, that’s a thing. We have riots in the summer when the students aren’t here, so the people are coming in to riot

  26. 26.

    Emerald

    October 25, 2016 at 3:17 pm

    So I gotta ask: is anyone else basically done with The Walking Dead?

    I think I’ve really had enough. I’ll just go with “the bad guys won” and leave it there.

  27. 27.

    catclub

    October 25, 2016 at 3:18 pm

    @Bill E Pilgrim: So besides sanitation, civil order and aqueducts, the Romans also gave us rodeos.
    Yippeeum-yi-ti-yayum!

  28. 28.

    Doug R

    October 25, 2016 at 3:21 pm

    @Emerald: AV club is not impressed. Over 2500 comments over there, looks like lots of people are done with it.

  29. 29.

    Iowa Old Lady

    October 25, 2016 at 3:22 pm

    @LAO: I trust potty training has been achieved?

  30. 30.

    the antibob

    October 25, 2016 at 3:23 pm

    Used to see it every year at the rodeo:

  31. 31.

    germy

    October 25, 2016 at 3:23 pm

    Growing Up Smith is the feel-good, coming-of-age story of Smith, a 10-year-old boy from India growing up in Small Town, America in 1979. As the boy’s family tries to straddle the line between embracing the American Dream and preservering their Indian heritage, Smith sneaks out for a taste of Kentucky Fried Chicken, dons a “Saturday Night Fever” costume, and contends with his parents as they send him to school with a yellow squash instead of a pumpkin to carve for Halloween.

  32. 32.

    Betty Cracker

    October 25, 2016 at 3:24 pm

    @Emerald: YES! I don’t need that level of grim in my life. I was starting to feel that way last season, but after this season’s opener, I am done. It sucks too, because there’s an interesting story to tell in that world, had the showrunners been willing to focus less on gore and shock and more on the philosophical questions, such as what it means to be human, what it means to be a society, etc., issues the show really did tackle sometimes in its earlier days.

  33. 33.

    NotMax

    October 25, 2016 at 3:26 pm

    @trollhattan

    Same dog had her own ritual when once in a blue moon would bring her a plain burger or cheeseburger.

    1) Take the burger in mouth
    2) Gently place burger on floor
    3) Carefully remove the top bun and set it down off to one side
    4) Remove the meat patty and set it to the other side
    5) Walk over and gobble down the top bun, then the bottom bun, and finally the meat.

  34. 34.

    Death Panel Truck

    October 25, 2016 at 3:26 pm

    Our two male cocker spaniels are rowdy, barking li’l bastids at home, but they’re sweet as pie at the vet’s. Maybe it’s because he gives out lamb lung treats.

  35. 35.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 25, 2016 at 3:26 pm

    @germy: If he calls himself Smith, how close is he really to his Indian heritage? Also, too his parents look and sound like caricatures in the blurb.

  36. 36.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 25, 2016 at 3:30 pm

    @Betty Cracker: What did you think of this season of the Americans.

  37. 37.

    debit

    October 25, 2016 at 3:32 pm

    @Emerald: I was done mid season four. It’s become torture porn and I just couldn’t stomach it anymore. So glad I stopped when I did, as I’ve read the reactions to Sunday night’s episode and felt sick.

  38. 38.

    hovercraft

    October 25, 2016 at 3:38 pm

    Why can’t the party of personal responsibility ever take any?
    Martin Longman aka Booman

    Warren Henry, writing in The Federalist, castigates a long list of liberal columnists for arguing during the early stages of the Republican primary that Donald Trump was in many ways the least offensive of the GOP’s candidates. The idea is that they were willing to overlook his racism, misogyny, ignorance, and polity incoherence, and that their decision to make a big deal about those faults now represents a kind of situational ethics and an opportunistic hypocrisy…..

    To be frank, there was a fair amount of bad faith trolling going on. These are liberal columnists who were mixing honest analysis with a rooting interest in the Republicans nominating their least electable option. Sometimes they fancied that making Trump sound formidable was a way to trick Republicans into supporting him…….

    Long before Trump arrived as a “Republican” in any normal sense of that word, liberals had discovered that it is no longer possible to converse with “mainstream” Republican politicians. Rather than legislating with them and ironing out difficult compromises, all their time has been spent fending off insanity about Benghazi and Death Panels and asinine conspiracy theories. It’s been a challenge to just keep the governments’ lights on and not default on our debts…….

    So, the idea that there was some “sane” alternative to Trump was seen as an offensive proposition from the beginning of the primaries until the end. The result was a seemingly endless number of sentences that took the form of “let’s dispense with the fiction that the alternatives to Trump are normal and acceptable candidates for the highest office in the land.”…….

    In the end, Trump took things farther and into darker places than people anticipated he would. But let’s not forget that his campaign began with widespread protests and boycotts. Liberals never felt that there was anything “okay” about Trump except that he was guaranteed to lose……

    So you see liberals, it’s all your fault that the base nominated Trump, you pretended you were afraid of him, and he’s losing, no fair.
    They deserve each other, bunch of whiners.

  39. 39.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 25, 2016 at 3:40 pm

    @hovercraft: And the Pundits of the MSM are already trying to spin a Hillary victory as a vote against Trump and hence not a mandate.

  40. 40.

    JSinLA

    October 25, 2016 at 3:40 pm

    A long-ago cat of ours, Achilles (a big, beautiful, red Persian) got a bad kidney infection and had to spend a couple of nights in the kitty hospital. They had to run a catheter in him, which he didn’t much like. When my wife and son went to visit him the next day, there was a large sign on his cage: WARNING – VERY BAD CAT. YOU ONLY GET ONE CHANCE. Apparently, he did not take kindly to the poor technicians checking the catheter.

  41. 41.

    Face

    October 25, 2016 at 3:41 pm

    It’s Alabama, Jake.

    Just change the goddamn locks.

  42. 42.

    alhutch

    October 25, 2016 at 3:44 pm

    @Emerald: The writing has gotten so bad, I gave up at the end of Season 6. Glad too, based on reactions to the Season 7 premiere. The gore has always been part of the show, but I can’t abide the characters acting, well, out of character. Characters were getting stupid to move the story where the writers wanted it to go. Pass.

  43. 43.

    geg6

    October 25, 2016 at 3:45 pm

    OMG, that’s hilarious. Koda is a good girl no matter where you take her, but I was absolutely gobsmacked at how well-behaved Lovey is at the vet’s. She’s certainly not well behaved anywhere else.

  44. 44.

    Iowa Old Lady

    October 25, 2016 at 3:46 pm

    Since we’re talking TV, we tried to watch The Durrells on Corfu on Masterpiece Theater, but we both hated the adult children so much, that we switched it off mid-episode. Is anyone else watching? Was that just us? It’s got good reviews in some online places. Maybe we were crabby.

  45. 45.

    Mike in NC

    October 25, 2016 at 3:47 pm

    We’re probably with the group of viewers for whom TWD is indeed dead to us.

  46. 46.

    Redshift

    October 25, 2016 at 3:48 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: It’s the only way to salvage their “both candidates are unpopular” narrative in the face of polling and voting that indicate the opposite, and the even more ludicrous “populist anger on both sides,” which seems to have died a quiet death in the past few weeks. “Change election” is still popular, though.

  47. 47.

    Major Major Major Major

    October 25, 2016 at 3:48 pm

    My friend passed along a tweet: “Unbelievable. John Podesta was offered $8.3 million by a Nigerian prince as a cash transfer. Corruption??”

  48. 48.

    hovercraft

    October 25, 2016 at 3:50 pm

    This Please Re-elect Gerald Ad is funny.

  49. 49.

    Betty Cracker

    October 25, 2016 at 3:50 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: I never got into that show. I may someday — started watching it, and it was interesting. But I didn’t have time, so I haven’t returned to it.

  50. 50.

    StringOnAStick

    October 25, 2016 at 3:51 pm

    Posted this downstairs before I knew there was a new thread:

    I just got back from Michigan, spending time in a small town that’s only remaining economic driver is the state prisons there: heavily Trump territory, though often a yard fully festooned with solid republican signs would be missing the T/P sign. The highways of the Michigan hinterlands had plenty of huge T/P signs though.

    We also spent time in western Detroit suburbs with the Jewish side of my husband’s family; the Shiva was all Jewish professionals/liberals, and my newly widowed SIL’s conservative Christian family wondering at this strange world they’d wandered into and it’s odd folkways (her dad may as well be a minister and he never misses a chance to attempt to save a Jew for Jeebus – obnoxious). I had several animated conversations with relatives, all of whom were appalled that they knew other Jews professionally who were voting T/P, but also relieved that they didn’t know many who were. Hillary signs everywhere in Detroit, only saw one or two T/P signs.

    And now I get to fill out my CO ballot, and as soon as my husband returns home on Wednesday (he’s still in Michigan), we will each sign ours and I will sing a happy song as I walk them over to the ballot drop off station. I’ve had creepy bosses who bear behavioral similarities to Trump, and I am seriously enjoying being able to vote to kick the Angry Circus Peanut right where it counts: in his ego.

  51. 51.

    Villago Delenda Est

    October 25, 2016 at 3:51 pm

    The good news: Ballot all filled out, will drop off at County Elections tomorrow
    The bad news: Won’t be counted for two weeks, we still have to endure Donald talking about his “conceptual” endorsements.

  52. 52.

    Betty Cracker

    October 25, 2016 at 3:52 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: That’s awesome!

  53. 53.

    hovercraft

    October 25, 2016 at 3:52 pm

    @Iowa Old Lady:
    I hate her kids, but they have to improve, it’s based on a true story, no family can be that bad, right?
    I mean except the Trumps. I’ll give it another episode or two to see if the kids become more tolerable.

  54. 54.

    debit

    October 25, 2016 at 3:53 pm

    @JSinLA: Oh, poor kitty. He had to be pretty frightened and/or hurting.

  55. 55.

    germy

    October 25, 2016 at 3:56 pm

    @StringOnAStick:

    I’ve had creepy bosses who bear behavioral similarities to Trump

    I have unpleasant work-related flashbacks every time I see him jut out his lower jaw.

  56. 56.

    EriktheRed

    October 25, 2016 at 3:57 pm

    Cubs.

  57. 57.

    Amir Khalid

    October 25, 2016 at 3:58 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est:
    I am intrigued that Trump claims the “conceptual” endorsement, whatever that might be, of the American military and civilian agencies, institutions with a long tradition of neutrality in partisan politics.

  58. 58.

    Brachiator

    October 25, 2016 at 4:00 pm

    @JSinLA:

    A long-ago cat of ours, Achilles (a big, beautiful, red Persian)

    A Persian cat named Achilles. Somehow, that just don’t seem right.

  59. 59.

    OGLiberal

    October 25, 2016 at 4:01 pm

    If you all want a good laugh check out the latest battleground state polls from Remington Research. Never heard of them? Not a surprise since it looks like the only polling they’ve done this year outside of these were a handful of GOP primaries. The polls were sponsored by a Republican/conservative consulting group, Emerson Strategies, which was founded and is head by Jeff Roe, Ted Cruz’s 2016 campaign manager. Easy to find at RCP, just click on any state with a down arrow next to Clinton’s name or an up arrow next to Trump’s. The toplines are hilarious enough but the real joke is in the cross-tabs. For example, did you know Trump is currently pulling in about 20% of the black vote in NC? Or that Trump is getting 29% percent of the black vote in PA? Or that Clinton is only winning the Philly metro area, 56-32?

    Surprised RCP even included this silliness….heck, they exclude Rasmussen. But, PPP (D)!

  60. 60.

    germy

    October 25, 2016 at 4:01 pm

    @Brachiator: I used to work with a guy who had a cat named Ruth. One day I jokingly suggested a playdate with my cat and he said “Ruth would love that!” and punched his fist into his palm, as if to say she’d kick my cat’s ass.

  61. 61.

    Brachiator

    October 25, 2016 at 4:06 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    The bad news: Won’t be counted for two weeks, we still have to endure Donald talking about his “conceptual” endorsements.

    Trump gets more strange every day. By the time November 8 rolls around, he will be giving his concession speech in the form of an interpretative dance.

  62. 62.

    dedc79

    October 25, 2016 at 4:07 pm

    Mississippi

  63. 63.

    trollhattan

    October 25, 2016 at 4:07 pm

    @NotMax:
    Mercy, what a fun(ny) doggie!

  64. 64.

    bystander

    October 25, 2016 at 4:08 pm

    As part of my GOTV contribution, I’ve decided to craft an “IS” to stick over the “CE” on my neighbor’s Trump/Pence signs. I’ll have to do it under cover of darkness, but it has to be done!

  65. 65.

    JSinLA

    October 25, 2016 at 4:08 pm

    @debit: Oh, he was most definitely afraid. I’m pretty sure he had never spent a night away from home before that, let alone go through such a procedure.

  66. 66.

    NotMax

    October 25, 2016 at 4:09 pm

    Finally got around to finishing watching the second season of Mr. Robot. Writers got too tangled up in the weeds and minutiae of the core plot and some of the interesting folks from the first season were peremptorily shuffled off stage, to the detriment of the show.

    Still watchable, albeit more plodding than season one. The “Leave It To Beaver” episode might have looked good on paper and been fun to film but IMHO did not work on any substantive level.

  67. 67.

    JSinLA

    October 25, 2016 at 4:10 pm

    @Brachiator: You’re right, but you name your cat what your five year old son wants to name him.

  68. 68.

    Brachiator

    October 25, 2016 at 4:15 pm

    @JSinLA:

    You’re right, but you name your cat what your five year old son wants to name him.

    Makes purrrfect sense.

  69. 69.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 25, 2016 at 4:15 pm

    @Iowa Old Lady: I saw the previews, seemed to lack the charm of the books so did not see the whole thing.

  70. 70.

    Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA

    October 25, 2016 at 4:16 pm

    Open thread? A huge thank you to everyone who recommended algebra websites. I just re-took my algebra placement exam and went from needing two remedial classes to skipping remedial math entirely and going straight into the degree class. Not bad, given that the last time I saw a lot of this stuff was during the Carter administration. So thank you for saving me two extra semesters of math and the tuition for two extra classes.

  71. 71.

    Frank Wilhoit

    October 25, 2016 at 4:22 pm

    We had a dog once: rescue, formerly abused, paranoid about her feet. Size and shape of an Airedale. She was mostly okay at the vet, or anywhere, unless anybody started messing with her feet. So one time she was in for something and they asked, would you like us to cut her claws while she’s here? We figured “these people are professionals, they know what they are doing.” Four vet techs, one solid stainless-steel table bent beyond use, and a room sprayed with solid and liquid waste later, no one was quite so sure.

  72. 72.

    Timurid

    October 25, 2016 at 4:25 pm

    @Brachiator:

    At least it wasn’t Leonidas or Themistocles.

  73. 73.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 25, 2016 at 4:26 pm

    Just voted. The line is about two hours long, but I was in and out in something under 15 minutes. There are advantages to being old — I just wish I had known about priority access when I came last week on the first day of advance voting only to turn around and go back home (the regular line was almost five hours that day).

    Anyhow, Clinton/Kaine can chalk up another Georgia vote ?

  74. 74.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    October 25, 2016 at 4:27 pm

    @Betty Cracker: Betty I am not sure if I have mentioned this before but there is a really interesting series on BBC America On Demand called “In the Flesh”. They currently have all of the episodes available. It is a really interesting (and very British) take on Zombies and begins when they have rounded them all up, put them into camps and found a “cure” of sorts. You should check it out.

  75. 75.

    Major Major Major Major

    October 25, 2016 at 4:30 pm

    Does anybody use the Tabby Cat extension for Chrome? Every time you open a new browser tab you get a cute cat drawing.

  76. 76.

    Shinobi

    October 25, 2016 at 4:32 pm

    My husky Vlad never did get over the nail trim thing. We tried so hard at home with all his favorite rewards. He wouldn’t buck though, he would just put his mouth around your wrist like “This sucks and I really want to bite you right now but you are my person so I am not doing that.” He was usually handleable by professionals though. He was just the most pathetic. (But then again a Husky being asked to do any minute task that is even slightly against their will is pretty much the most pathetic.)

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    the Conster, la Citoyenne

    October 25, 2016 at 4:32 pm

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    Reid Wilson
    ‏@PoliticsReid
    VT GOV poll (WCAX/Braun Research): Phil Scott (R) 47, Sue Minter (D) 40 –

    Heckuva job getting your revolution going, Bernie.

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    WaterGirl

    October 25, 2016 at 4:33 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: No, but I did put my new Puzzies Against Romney magnet on my car on Monday! Does that count?

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    GregB

    October 25, 2016 at 4:34 pm

    @Emerald:

    Yes. I shut it off pretty early on. Maybe I am getting old but it all just seemed so uneccesary and ugly and not very creative.

    As I read elsewhere, it’s time to root for the zombies.

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    Miss Bianca

    October 25, 2016 at 4:35 pm

    @Shinobi: word. Both my females have been complete prima donnas about having their paws handled. My male (a rescue) was pretty damn stoic about everything, including vet visits.

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    Pest Bog Mummy, Frakensteinbeck

    October 25, 2016 at 4:36 pm

    @hovercraft:

    Why can’t the party of personal responsibility ever take any?

    It’s always worth repeating: Because in Republican-speak ‘personal responsibility’ means black* people are lazy and should be stomped on harder, not helped towards equality.

    *African-Americans are the main and initial target, but they do have a vast library of reasons minorities are to blame for being oppressed.

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    Matt McIrvin

    October 25, 2016 at 4:36 pm

    @OGLiberal: Their poll dump caused a little tick down in Sam Wang’s model. Just a little one, because his median-based averaging procedure tends to de-emphasize really weird outliers. Looks like a lot of other polls are landing too, so no worries–we’re into the home stretch and the number of polls is going way up.

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    Villago Delenda Est

    October 25, 2016 at 4:42 pm

    @Brachiator: DO.NOT.WANT!

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    Shana

    October 25, 2016 at 4:46 pm

    @LAO: Our late lamented Lightning always loved the vet, which was also our boarding facility. It didn’t matter if he was getting shots or boarding, he loved those folks and they loved him. It may not change.

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    Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA

    October 25, 2016 at 4:47 pm

    @Emerald: I got into it a couple of years after it premiered, watched it for a couple of years and then stopped. I enjoyed it in a dark, funny way — what new hell can the writers put these people through? It was fun to see them top themselves.

    But “survivors meet bad people, survivors escape bad people, survivors meet more bad people, plus some survivors die, and zombies also too” gets old after a while.

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    Villago Delenda Est

    October 25, 2016 at 4:47 pm

    @Amir Khalid: In the case of the military, neutrality enforced by the Uniform Code of Military Justice non-partisanship. You can have a bumper sticker on your POV, you can wear a candidate’s button while in civilian attire, but in uniform? Court Martial offense.

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    Gindy51

    October 25, 2016 at 4:48 pm

    Our Swissies have white nails so you can see the quick and are very good about nail clipping. They walk up, stand still, get clipped, get a treat and move on. The pyr/lab has gotten better as she has aged. We used to have to muzzle her because she would bite even us, now she is close to 10 and totally resigned to nail clipping every 2 weeks. The male Swissie has claws that grow like weeds and we have laminate floor so off they go.

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    Villago Delenda Est

    October 25, 2016 at 4:49 pm

    @Pest Bog Mummy, Frakensteinbeck: It’s always code and dog-whistles with these assholes, because screaming “lynch those ni*CLANGS*” is so gauche.

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    PaulWartenberg2016

    October 25, 2016 at 4:49 pm

    none of my cats ever liked getting stuff shoved up the butt.

    the fecal check was actually more upsetting than the needles for them.

    and my current two kittehs – Ocean and Mal – cannot sit still for nail-clipping. I can’t do it by myself and whenever I have someone in the house Mal in particular hides under the bed forever fearing it’s someone there for the nail-clipping.

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    tarragon

    October 25, 2016 at 4:57 pm

    @JSinLA:
    ’tis true.

    We have a goldfish named Hop because that’s what the 2 year old said it was named.

    Fun note: Hop is a rescue fish. We found it on the side of the road, brought it home, and nursed it back to health. Really.

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    OGLiberal

    October 25, 2016 at 5:07 pm

    @Matt McIrvin: NYT just released an NC poll with Clinton up 7 and PPP, who knows NC better than anybody, has her up 3. I find these Jeff Roe polls (yes, he founded the polling firm as well) quite humorous and not worrisome at all – seem tailored made for the “polls are skewed!” crowd.

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    Gelfling 545

    October 25, 2016 at 5:07 pm

    @PDX_ExPat: As a pup, Flora was very calm & cooperative about getting her nails clipped. Now, at age 2, she is a mad thing. I leave it to the vet now.

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    Jsinla

    October 25, 2016 at 5:17 pm

    @tarragon: He then named Achilles’ brother Streaker.

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    Shana

    October 25, 2016 at 5:19 pm

    @tarragon: What kind of fish is Hop?

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    Iowa Old Lady

    October 25, 2016 at 5:19 pm

    @PaulWartenberg2016: I personally agree with your cats.

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    Central Planning

    October 25, 2016 at 5:22 pm

    @bystander: Pics or you didn’t do it!

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    hitchhiker

    October 25, 2016 at 5:47 pm

    Gotta rant for a minute about David freaking Axelrod. Cashing in with CNN. Running his institute on politics. Hosting a weekly podcast called The Axe Files. (Get it?! Groan.)

    And he cannot get through a single episode without asking his guest what-oh-what can be done about how extremely unlikable Hillary Clinton is. Even Tim Kaine got the question!

    Jesus, dude, give it up. YOU don’t like her. Most women like her. Most black people like her. Most Asian people like her. Most Hispanic people like her. But you’ve thrown in your lot on this question with a butt ton of angry white people who didn’t get to go to college.

    Amazingly un-selfaware, is David.

    End rant.

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    SFBayAreaGal

    October 25, 2016 at 5:56 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: Black Sabbath with Boris Karloff was one of the scariest movies I saw when I was in my early teen years. 3 short stories that scared the heck out of me.

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    Mnemosyne

    October 25, 2016 at 5:58 pm

    When I take our cats in to get their nails trimmed (which I do when the cleaning people come), I tell the groomer that Keaton needs to be able to see me (or G, if he comes) while he gets his nails done. If he can see one of us, he’s fine, but if he’s alone with the groomer, he’s been known to get a little scary, though I don’t think he’s actually bitten anyone yet.

    The other two don’t care and actually are better-behaved than they are with us, but not Keaton.

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    Mnemosyne

    October 25, 2016 at 6:00 pm

    @SFBayAreaGal:

    I would love to have people vote on a Mario Bava movie for me to write about. I would probably choose “Black Sabbath,” “Blood and Black Lace,” and “Planet of the Vampires” and let people choose from there, but there are a lot of other options, too.

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    Steeplejack (phone)

    October 25, 2016 at 6:03 pm

    I think it’s the steel examining table at the vet’s. I had a cat who was impossible to give a pill to at home, but on that table at the vet’s she was all like “Thank you, please may I have another?”

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    LunarG

    October 25, 2016 at 6:03 pm

    @StringOnAStick: Were you in Ionia, MI by any chance? Where about 45% of the population is incarcerated? My SIL used to be a social worker there…

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    SFBayAreaGal

    October 25, 2016 at 6:09 pm

    @Mnemosyne: When I think about certain scenes in Black Sabbath I still get chills.

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    MaryRC

    October 25, 2016 at 6:50 pm

    @Emerald: I voted for “The Uninvited” too; it’s a favorite old flick that I could watch again and again whereas I wouldn’t watch the other 2 movies again even though they were good.

    My parents had another book by Dorothy Macardle who wrote the book that “The Uninvited” was based on. This was “The Unforeseen”, about a woman who was clairvoyant but wasn’t always able to correctly interpret what she foresaw. I read it as a kid and was fascinated by it.

    It wasn’t until fairly recently that I learned that Dororthy Macardle took part in the Irish War of Independence and wrote one of the definitive accounts of it. She was a remarkable woman.

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    NotMax

    October 25, 2016 at 7:21 pm

    @Mnemosyne

    Planet of the Vampires, otherwise known tongue-in-cheek as Alien, Part Zero.

    @Littlebritdifrnt

    Season one: very well constructed, intriguing

    Season two: progressively not so much

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    Mnemosyne

    October 25, 2016 at 8:38 pm

    @NotMax:

    Ridley Scott claims he never saw “Planet of the Vampires,” but the screenwriters and set designers for Alien obviously did.

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    tarragon

    October 25, 2016 at 10:21 pm

    @Shana:
    Some kind of Calico Goldfish. I don’t enough about fish to know any more than that.

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