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What's all this now? ONT by 9pm Central?

I think I might make it in the top 25...

if I can resist.... reading... content.........

#WeirdCritterExperience of the week:

We're in town, at the large building warehousing too much stuff. We'd had all the doors open during the day to air out the mustiness. Now the place was closed up and we're packing to go home when Milady says:

We have a bit of a problem... (always great to hear, waiting for the punchline/lede/other shoe) We have a (2nd) cat in the place.

The regular office cat, Merlin, sometimes gets to go out for brief forays, and has been seen with a neighbor cat - presumably feral. Apparently, while the doors were open, Feral got in.

We searched the place as best we could, but there are a brazillion hidey-holes. I caught a glimpse of Feral just once, dashing across the room. We had a door open for Feral to exit, but never saw him leave.

Eventually, we just closed the place up and went home. Went back the next day, opened the place up and continued inspection. Never saw him again.

Presumably, it snuck out the door at some point. Catfood consumption and litter box analysis (if that matters) suggest we're just down to Merlin again, but we don't really know!

What I do know is, we've got to clear out that place.

Average Guy: ...is it OK, 600+ posts in, to comment on the original content?

Commenting on ONT content has been known to go on until the next day's afternoon.

Sometimes....

The rain is coming down pretty heavy now.

And morning is due any hour now.

So, I shall adjust my orientation to the horizontal and let the gentle splashing lull me to dreamland.

Pax, Folx

Miley's tan lines?!!? (or lack thereof)

All in favor of pix, raise your unoccupied hands.

It's raining in NE OK. And lightninging and thundering. But no twisters at the moment, so it's all okay.

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GOP Lawmakers Turning on Donald Trump…

Silly answer: Uh-oh! Looks like an early night for a Clinton win. Trump has no path to winning the Presidency.

Not-so-silly answer: Take those GOP lawmakers' names - there will be primaries.

Whoopi Suggests Obama Faced Worse Media Treatment Than Trump

I can never figure out whether these people live in some kind of virtual reality to which we are not tuned, or they know they are full of bull and like it.

dagny #7: ...Lloyd Benson....

Wow, there's a name I haven't encountered for a long time.

Hitched his wagon to a Pres candidate who actually tanked.

Someone pointed out over at Ace that the Time cover does not show the Kremlin, but St Basil's.

Also, that Mad did that cover first.

Or, as another commenter said:
The Russian Orthodox are coming! The Russian Orthodox are coming!

Thanks for another news roundup, Pete. Even if I am getting to it a day late.

"British bookies say gamblers are betting Trump won’t finish his term in office…"

I seem to recall that bookies were so confident in Hill's victory they were paying out before the election was over. Whoops!

Just like all these Laughingstock Media and Dems and DIABLOs calling for Trump's impeachment are the same ones who were opposing him all the way to the White House. Look how that worked (not!) for them.

Through the dust kicked up by the propagandist commies, you can see some daylight:

PDT Has Best Fundraising Day Ever in Wake of Comey Coup Fever

and

Dem Leadership Suddenly Trying to Squelch Impeachment Talk

Heh.

(Links c/o JJ Sefton's Morning Report at Ace of Spades, my other favorite daily news source.)

* KLAXON SOUNDS *

This thread is officially superseded.

Git along, little dawgies!

I think an earlier comment of mine maybe didn't get posted:

God bless German shep Jakob with peace - and his humans, too.

Stringer Davis #459:
Lintels and potatoes?
Don't stand in the doorway!

That was weak... but much better than any acknowledgement of the tpyo that I had come up with.

*tips Stetson*

"I'd like to buy a different vowel...!"

Polliwog #432: I was wondering recently if part of the baby boom wasn't just "the returning military" as is commonly same d [?], but also that the children born from that *survived* in numbers never seen before because of the introduction of vaccines.

Interesting thought! There was also great change in sanitation, food supply, general health care especially of infants. But vaccines especially.

And penicillin. Mom's older brother, when they were teens, dove into a pond and got a stick through the eye. Died a few days later of untreatable infection. That would be around 1932.

"Penicillin was discovered in 1928 by Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming. People began using it to treat infections in 1942." -Wikipedia FWIW

Vaccines are a turning point in human history.

I need to sit down with Mom and have her relate again for the record what it was like when my eldest brother got polio, how their polio insurance ('til it ran out) made a difference in treatment, about his hanging out with other kids who were in iron lungs, and how he got past it. He lived, until cancer and med malpractice got him last year.

My folks were especially relieved when the vaccine came along.

Search says this painting was on the cover of the March 15, 1958 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.

We took the Post and I always liked it for the cartoons. So, I would've been 5 when I (probably) first saw this.

Even though I'm only 29 now.

Insomniac: You're in Oklahoma? Do you have a surrey with a fringe on top?

I used to have a van with a shag rug. And I once knew a hippy furry -- she had fringe all over.

I was thinking the other day, watching the sky, that the song Oklahoma had a line that showed it wasn't really written by a real Okie.

"every night my honey lamb and I
sit around and talk
and watch a hawk
making lazy circles in the sky"

Hawks climb fast and speed away in straight lines, as a rule. They only circle when fighting crows.

♬ "every night my honey lamb and I
to enjoy our cultures
we watch the turkey vultures
making lazy circles in the skyyyy..." ♬

runner #24: after that baby giraffe was born, to weigh it, one of the attendants weighed himself on a bathroom scale, then picked up baby giraffe and jumped on that scale again....

That's how I weigh our cats.

The dog can be forced to stand on the vet's scale... usually... he doesn't like it.

"*snicker!* That little boy has his butt hanging out!"
-me, seeing this the first time, at about the kid's age

I plowed through JJ's morning headlines, and was about to comment that something must be very wrong if I was up and commenting before the art thread.

Then I reloaded, and all was artfully right with the world again.

Good morning, holiday campers!

Worst of last night's storms were N & S of our little bit of heaven on earth here in NE OK. We just got rain, hearty wind, and brilliant lightning show.

Hope fellow Oklahomans along I-40 & wherever survived the storms and possible twisters, as well as any other Morons in Spring's path.

Cruised through the comments.

Now I want a chili cheeseburger.

Chili, or Gray's Mango Chutney also sounded good.

Yello, mellow fellows and femmows!

Factory, mine, and utility output gains in April?

Obamaconomy after-effects, of course.
-LaughingStock Media