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Late Night Open Thread: Our Feline Overlords

by Anne Laurie|  June 19, 20233:08 am| 25 Comments

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— Respectful Memes (@RespectfulMemes) June 18, 2023

Late Night Open Thread: Our Feline Overlords

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As @itsdaneesaur pointed out, the opposite is also true pic.twitter.com/DlAuGrMLeQ

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  1. 1.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    June 19, 2023 at 3:17 am

    That’s Loki and Maisie.

  2. 2.

    opiejeanne

    June 19, 2023 at 3:25 am

    It’s our Annie. Henry would never, but Annie sure would.

  3. 3.

    SpaceUnit

    June 19, 2023 at 3:28 am

    What is this thread about?

  4. 4.

    twbrandt

    June 19, 2023 at 3:33 am

    @SpaceUnit: IYKYK

  5. 5.

    Origuy

    June 19, 2023 at 3:48 am

    I vaguely recognized that statue, but I couldn’t place it. Google informs me that it is Ashurbanipol the Lawgiver, located in the San Francisco Civic Center near the Asian Art Museum. I’ve probably passed it 100 times. Apparently there’s a controversy about it; the local Assyrian community says that no Assyrian king would wear a mini-skirt and that it looks more like the Sumerian king Gilgamesh. I have heard of long lasting feuds, but Assyrians and Sumerians appear to have been going at it for millenia.

  6. 6.

    Tony Jay

    June 19, 2023 at 4:07 am

    @Origuy:

    I’m sure more knowledgable Jackals will correct me if I’m wrong, and not at all to detract from your larger point, but I think the Sumerians predate the Assyrians by quite a chunk of time. The cultures that Assyria would have had grudges with would have been late Bronze Age/early Iron Age Babylonia, Egypt (obvs), the Hittites and, of course, the poor old Mitanni.

    The Assyrians weren’t exactly popular, skirts or no skirts.

  7. 7.

    twbrandt

    June 19, 2023 at 4:45 am

    @Tony Jay: The Wikipedia article Origuy linked to has some details about the dispute. Apparently, the Assyrian community in the US did claim that the sculpture resembled a Sumerian king rather than an Assyrian one. I personally haven’t a clue either way, so 🤷‍♂️

  8. 8.

    JPL

    June 19, 2023 at 5:00 am

    Happy Juneteenth Day!

    Grand imps will be visiting since they don’t have camp today.   Fun times.

  9. 9.

    NotMax

    June 19, 2023 at 5:03 am

    @Tony Jay

    Well, you know the old saying:

    One man’s Mede is another man’s Persian.
    :)

  10. 10.

    eclare

    June 19, 2023 at 5:08 am

    Ha!  Yes, I have baby here.

  11. 11.

    Tony Jay

    June 19, 2023 at 5:27 am

    @twbrandt:

    I was just being pernickety. It’s early here and without the requisite amount of coffee in my system I get very “Well, actually..” at the drop of a hat.

    @NotMax:

    “Around the table what began as a smattering of applause evolved into a swelling, pulsing cacophony of approval as news of his achievement lapped the room and chair after chair was scraped back so that the assembled guests could rise and, like a single organism, pay homage to the wit of their host.”

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    satby

    June 19, 2023 at 6:24 am

    Opened my tablet to this thread right after feeding the latest batch of neighborhood outside cats, which started with an obvious sibling of Bitchleen’s and has expanded now to three or four more, only one of which has a collar. Two, possibly three look like they came from the Bitchleen litter. Cats can be assholes, but they can be the sweetest things ever too. How people can neglect them so cruelly, I can’t imagine.

  13. 13.

    satby

    June 19, 2023 at 6:27 am

    @JPL: Hope you all have a fun day and that it isn’t too hot.

    Here, it will be 89° with air already in the orange zone for “poor” air quality. Once the herd eats and moves on, I need to get out and water before it’s really warm.

  14. 14.

    Kristine

    June 19, 2023 at 6:51 am

    @satby: One good thing about being close to the lake—supposed to stay below 80F all week. But it’s weather and can always change. Maybe we should call it the asshole instead of the cat.

    I hope next weekend’s rains materialize for us both.

  15. 15.

    satby

    June 19, 2023 at 6:59 am

    @Kristine: I hope next weekend’s rains materialize for us both.

    For sure! I miss being closer to the lake. I used to just drive over to watch the sunsets at least once a week in MI when I was 10 minutes away, now it’s almost an hour to my favorite beach to do that. 😕

  16. 16.

    kalakal

    June 19, 2023 at 7:27 am

    That cartoon is my Virgil. He can be an absolute jerk towards the others when mood takes him.

    @Tony Jay: Statue can’t be Assyrian, it’s not purple and gold.

  17. 17.

    prostratedragon

    June 19, 2023 at 8:35 am

    Speaking of the Hittites, a complete performance by the Met of Aknaten, from 2019, has appeared on youtube. I sure hope it’s legal. Anyway, the quality is at least 80 percent as good as the disc, which if you’ve never seen it is good enough to start.

  18. 18.

    O. Felix Culpa

    June 19, 2023 at 8:40 am

    @prostratedragon:

    The Met in HD is doing a reprise showing of Akhnaten in movie theaters on June 26th. Highly recommended!

  19. 19.

    H.E.Wolf

    June 19, 2023 at 9:35 am

    @kalakal: @Tony Jay: Statue can’t be Assyrian, it’s not purple and gold.​

     My mind instantly went to one of my favourite poems by Ogden Nash: https://allpoetry.com/Very-Like-a-Whale

    [original reference: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43827/the-destruction-of-sennacherib ]

  20. 20.

    prostratedragon

    June 19, 2023 at 9:51 am

    @O. Felix Culpa:  Thanks, I did not know that! And at two convenient locations.

  21. 21.

    kalakal

    June 19, 2023 at 10:05 am

    @H.E.Wolf: Thanks, I didn’t know the Nash poem, it’s very clever and very funny

  22. 22.

    Paul in KY

    June 19, 2023 at 10:14 am

    @SpaceUnit: Cats

  23. 23.

    SteveinPHX

    June 19, 2023 at 10:15 am

    @H.E.Wolf:

    &nbsp
    Thank you. I had not come across this before.

  24. 24.

    frosty

    June 19, 2023 at 11:10 am

    @NotMax: That is old. I first saw it in a book at my grandma’s called What’s Funny and Why. All the examples were radio humor; the book dated to the 20s. I still remember a lot of the jokes.

  25. 25.

    pluky

    June 19, 2023 at 8:46 pm

    @Tony Jay: There are reasons why what is left of Nineveh are utter ruins.

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