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by John Cole|  January 12, 20189:58 pm| 32 Comments

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Apparently the blog went tits up.

Try commenting here.

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32Comments

  1. 1.

    thalarctosMaritimus

    January 12, 2018 at 10:00 pm

    I’ll try.

  2. 2.

    Baud

    January 12, 2018 at 10:00 pm

    Tits are back down.

  3. 3.

    Yarrow

    January 12, 2018 at 10:01 pm

    It wasn’t Ruckus who broke it. Adam made the 75th comment that it was stuck at forever.

  4. 4.

    Jeffro

    January 12, 2018 at 10:02 pm

    Go see THE GREATEST SHOWMAN, peeps!

  5. 5.

    khead

    January 12, 2018 at 10:04 pm

    Just when we thought we were out, they pull us back in!

    Adding another kitteh to the family tomorrow. Looks like it might be a Turkish Angora dump. Anyone have experience with these kittehs?

  6. 6.

    jacy

    January 12, 2018 at 10:06 pm

    @khead: had a turkish van for 12 years. he was the most laid-back car I ever had.

  7. 7.

    tybee

    January 12, 2018 at 10:11 pm

    there’s a woman’s march in savannah on the 20th.
    i’m in need of two pussy hats, in bright pink with ears before that date.
    any knitters able to supply such?

  8. 8.

    TaMara (HFG)

    January 12, 2018 at 10:17 pm

    Testing…

  9. 9.

    aj

    January 12, 2018 at 10:23 pm

    We have lost ze Calpyso…

    Anyone else old enough to remember that?

  10. 10.

    Jay S

    January 12, 2018 at 10:24 pm

    @Baud: I believe that tits up and tits down are equivalent. I suspect tits horizontal is what John is shooting for.

  11. 11.

    Gvg

    January 12, 2018 at 10:27 pm

    @khead: I had a purebred for 17 years. Sweet kitty who loved attention but was so used to people thinking she was pretty that she liked to charm everyone even people who were afraid of cats. She had a dumb blond act that I think was caused by the way people reacted to her. Act cute and people did everything for her. Pet her, feed her, bring her toys. Don’t chase the string, act cute and the string would come to her.
    She had been a show cat and taught to tolerate baths which made white coat keeping easier. She liked car rides because of the shows so it was easy to travel to visit parents in college. Their coats are much easier to keep than Persians and silky.
    I got one because my grandmother had some when I was a kid.
    Turkish Vans have the auburn Tunch markings and are the breed that likes to swim.
    Your next kitten looks Angora though. The vans have broad chests for swimming power.

  12. 12.

    Amir Khalid

    January 12, 2018 at 10:36 pm

    The Girl and I are currently working on Keep on Rocking in the Free World.

    How fares Yuki, o blogmaster?

  13. 13.

    M. Bouffant

    January 12, 2018 at 10:42 pm

    …

  14. 14.

    RedDirtGirl (AKA IvankaThrowUp)

    January 12, 2018 at 10:43 pm

    Hey, Gang! I am exploring my new alter ego. I think IvankaThrowUp may run for office. I have a slogan and everything:
    Fostering Civility in an Uncivil Age.

  15. 15.

    M. Bouffant

    January 12, 2018 at 10:44 pm

    Lucky comment 13 worked.

  16. 16.

    Yutsano

    January 12, 2018 at 10:54 pm

    “Give me a ping, Vasily. One ping only please.”

  17. 17.

    satby

    January 12, 2018 at 10:58 pm

    I wondered where everyone went. I was jealous you all appeared to have lives.

  18. 18.

    MomSense

    January 12, 2018 at 11:02 pm

    @tybee:

    What sizes?

  19. 19.

    MomSense

    January 12, 2018 at 11:04 pm

    @satby:

    I didn’t notice the blog was broken because I watched the letterman interview with Obama. Now I’m all verklempt.

  20. 20.

    efgoldman

    January 12, 2018 at 11:07 pm

    I was tired of talking about the weather, anyway.
    [“Everybody talks about the weather….”]

  21. 21.

    danielx

    January 12, 2018 at 11:11 pm

    @aj:

    It rings a distant chord…

  22. 22.

    Just one more canuck

    January 12, 2018 at 11:13 pm

    @jacy: we have one now _ Elsa is a lot of things but laid back is not one of them

  23. 23.

    efgoldman

    January 12, 2018 at 11:18 pm

    I know that lots of you jackals and jackalettes find yourselves in some degree of depression because of whast’s going on in DC with “president” unmentionable and his merry band of thieves and worse. This story will give you as lift. Fifth graders. The kids are alright.

    POCONOS, Pa. – At the Mount Airy Resort in the Poconos of Pennsylvania, reverend Gilbert Caldwell and his wife, Grace, arrived recently for their second honeymoon. They were greeted warmly — a sharp contrast to their first visit, 60 years earlier.
    .
    In 1957 they were married in North Carolina, then drove eight hours only to be turned back for being black.

    Read the whole thing, or watch the video.

  24. 24.

    RobertDSC-Mac Mini

    January 12, 2018 at 11:27 pm

    Really thrilled with Metallica’s 2016 album Hardwired…To Self-Destruct. Listen to it a lot, bought the deluxe version on iTunes. Very happy with it.

  25. 25.

    efgoldman

    January 12, 2018 at 11:32 pm

    @efgoldman: Well, my beloved Anne Laurie stomped the thread. I’ll find a place to repost the link tomorrow

  26. 26.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 12, 2018 at 11:35 pm

    @Baud: Age does that.

  27. 27.

    Czanne

    January 13, 2018 at 12:03 am

    @tybee: I have spares, 2, bright pink, crocheted, light pink inner ears, ready to go. Email me your mailing address to threadhacked at gmail and I’ll drop ‘em in an envelope.

  28. 28.

    eemom

    January 13, 2018 at 12:38 am

    “Tits” is a male sexist word. #jussayinzall

  29. 29.

    Amaranthine RBG

    January 13, 2018 at 12:50 am

    @tybee: You can get those off of the Amaaon.com.

  30. 30.

    Amaranthine RBG

    January 13, 2018 at 12:51 am

    @eemom:

    j#uicy in yalls ya say?

    Just saying you alls.

  31. 31.

    J R in WV

    January 13, 2018 at 6:00 am

    @M. Bouffant:

    …

    Wait – there are THREE tits there. Or are those pips?

    AT least they aren’t up !!

  32. 32.

    Miss Bianca

    January 13, 2018 at 11:30 am

    @khead: Oh, CUTE!!

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