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Mon, 09 January 2012 20:27  |
 b_twin_1
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But SHADOWS is still still going*
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: But SHADOWS is still still going* [message #47473 is a reply to message #47466 ] |
Mon, 09 January 2012 21:46  |
Sanderling
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Yay for SHADOWS progress! Boo for illnesses, human and canine alike.
This may be of no help to you at all, but thought I'd pass it along. We got a Boston Terrier puppy about a year ago; for the first six months he was an eating machine. Then suddenly he started becoming extremely submissive around me at dinnertime, cowering with his ears tucked back and piddling on the floor anytime I so much as looked at him. He wouldn't approach the food, wouldn't even take food from my hand if I put it under his muzzle. But when my husband fed him he'd be just fine, and the rest of the day he was fine around me, happy and playful and normal and not piddling. I'm definitely the more forceful parent of the two of us - my husband has rules, but I have Rules - and I wonder if somehow it was the result of this, that he'd somehow got it in his head that I was the Cruel Evil Stepmother and ALL FOOD WAS MINE. We still don't know.
Anyway, for a while there the only way he would eat was if I put the food down and then left the room for a while. It took a month of slow rehabilitation, of me leaving the room or at the least not looking at him and walking away, before he was starting to act more normal at dinnertime again.
Will Darkness and Chaos eat if Peter (or someone else) feeds them when you're not around? If you just put the food on the floor and leave the room for a few (or several) hours, will they eat it?
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| Re: But SHADOWS is still still going* [message #47479 is a reply to message #47466 ] |
Mon, 09 January 2012 23:52 |
EMoon
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Boo-hiss at the illness. Yours, the hellhounds', anybody's you know and love.
We had eight tenths of an inch of rain today, which we needed (and still need more of, though I would like to get some more collection tanks, seriously.)
Nameless IV (my current book, which is creeping toward completion but has no title) is creeping toward completion but in a steady, digging-those-elbows-in crawl, rather than an aimless slither. It still shrugs off every name I try to toss over its shoulders.
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| Re: But SHADOWS is still still going* [message #47480 is a reply to message #47466 ] |
Tue, 10 January 2012 00:16 |
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boddhi_d
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Jabenami:
And, um, on the subject of bad physics jokes…
Heisenberg and Schrodinger are driving down the highway when they are pulled over by a police officer...
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*snigger*
Not physics (and it's really better told out loud for the, erm, dialogue) but how about:
A chicken walks into a library, goes up to the circulation desk, and clucks at the librarian, "Book!" The librarian is a little startled, but, since the chicken has a valid library card, offers the chicken something off the New Releases shelf. The chicken picks up the book in her beak and leaves the library.
An hour or so later, the chicken is back. She drops the first book in the return bin and goes up to the librarian again: "Book!" So the librarian offers a different book.
The whole process is repeated several times over the next week, until one day the chicken makes her appearance just before the librarian's lunch break. This time, the librarian decides to follow the chicken.
Book in beak, the chicken makes for the nearby park. The chicken goes through a stand of trees, up a hill, and finally down to the edge of a pond.
There, the chicken sets the book down (on a dry patch, the librarian is relieved to note) and clucks loudly "Book! Bookbookbookbook! Boo-ook!"
In a moment, there's a splash, and the librarian sees a big bullfrog emerge from the pond. The bullfrog hops up to the chicken, looks down at the book, looks back at the chicken, and croaks, "Read it."
--Dawn in TN
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| Re: But SHADOWS is still still going* [message #47482 is a reply to message #47480 ] |
Tue, 10 January 2012 00:33 |
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equus_peduus
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Best wishes for swift return of health (or at least, non-miserable functionality?) for all members of the McKinley household!
I'll offer one of my favorite vet jokes. I can probably provide some viola jokes as well.
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A man rushes into the vet clinic with his limp dog. After a quick glance at the dog, the receptionist immediatley pulls the vet out of his current appointment and gets him in to look at the emergency. After a brief examination, the veterinarian sadly informs the man that the dog has died.
"What?!" the man screams. "Are you sure?! He was fine just a little bit ago! Aren't there any tests or anything you can do to be sure?"
"Wait just a moment," the vet replies, and steps out of the room.
A moment later, an orange tabby saunters into the room. He carefully sniffs the dead dog all over, pats its nose with a paw, meows, and saunters back out.
Shortly after that, a beautiful black Labrador retriever enters. He also inspects the dead dog, noses it, whines and barks. He then exits the room.
The veterinarian returns.
"Both the dog and the cat agree - your dog has passed away. I'm very sorry for your loss."
The man sighs and asks for the bill. He looks at it and becomes irate.
"$650?! Just to tell me my dog is dead?!"
The veterinarian looks at him and replies, "Well, the exam fee is $50. You asked for the additional testing... the cat scan runs $500 and the lab test was $100."
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| Re: But SHADOWS is still still going* [message #47490 is a reply to message #47466 ] |
Tue, 10 January 2012 09:28 |
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On the subject of non-relatable physics, I have to share this truly awesome video. It's the PhD thesis of a man named Krister Shalm, a quantum physicist. His these involved creating something called a "quantum ruler" to measure photons (light particles). And he explains it here by getting together a group of friends and...swing dancing. I love this--not only is it the lindy hop, a dance I love, but it actually makes sense!
The Quantum Ruler - Dance your Ph.D. 2010
He also did a TED talk, here: The Poetry of Physics, Dancing, and Life
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| Re: But SHADOWS is still still going* [message #47517 is a reply to message #47480 ] |
Wed, 11 January 2012 00:16 |
librarykat
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| boddhi_d wrote on Mon, 09 January 2012 23:16 |
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Jabenami:
And, um, on the subject of bad physics jokes…
Heisenberg and Schrodinger are driving down the highway when they are pulled over by a police officer...
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*snigger*
Not physics (and it's really better told out loud for the, erm, dialogue) but how about:
A chicken walks into a library, goes up to the circulation desk, and clucks at the librarian, "Book!" The librarian is a little startled, but, since the chicken has a valid library card, offers the chicken something off the New Releases shelf. The chicken picks up the book in her beak and leaves the library.
An hour or so later, the chicken is back. She drops the first book in the return bin and goes up to the librarian again: "Book!" So the librarian offers a different book.
The whole process is repeated several times over the next week, until one day the chicken makes her appearance just before the librarian's lunch break. This time, the librarian decides to follow the chicken.
Book in beak, the chicken makes for the nearby park. The chicken goes through a stand of trees, up a hill, and finally down to the edge of a pond.
There, the chicken sets the book down (on a dry patch, the librarian is relieved to note) and clucks loudly "Book! Bookbookbookbook! Boo-ook!"
In a moment, there's a splash, and the librarian sees a big bullfrog emerge from the pond. The bullfrog hops up to the chicken, looks down at the book, looks back at the chicken, and croaks, "Read it."
--Dawn in TN
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I first heard this one years ago. Still makes me chuckle.
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| Re: But SHADOWS is still still going* [message #47533 is a reply to message #47517 ] |
Wed, 11 January 2012 16:59 |
Aaron
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| librarykat wrote on Tue, 10 January 2012 21:16 |
| boddhi_d wrote on Mon, 09 January 2012 23:16 |
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Jabenami:
And, um, on the subject of bad physics jokes…
Heisenberg and Schrodinger are driving down the highway when they are pulled over by a police officer...
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*snigger*
Not physics (and it's really better told out loud for the, erm, dialogue) but how about:
. . .
There, the chicken sets the book down (on a dry patch, the librarian is relieved to note) and clucks loudly "Book! Bookbookbookbook! Boo-ook!"
In a moment, there's a splash, and the librarian sees a big bullfrog emerge from the pond. The bullfrog hops up to the chicken, looks down at the book, looks back at the chicken, and croaks, "Read it."
--Dawn in TN
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I first heard this one years ago. Still makes me chuckle.
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This was probably the same bullfrog that led travellers to mistakenly try fording a river by insisting that it was only "knee deep".
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| Re: But SHADOWS is still still going* [message #47538 is a reply to message #47466 ] |
Wed, 11 January 2012 22:29 |
claning
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Laryngitis: one of the funniest experiences I've had with it was the time when -- I was just beginning to come down with it -- I went outdoors in the evening to call my cat to come in.
I raised my voice and called "Here, kitty kitty kitty!" in the usual high-pitched voice one uses for such things, and NOTHING CAME OUT. Not a sound.
I broke up laughing. The cat did eventually come in.
O Chris Laning <claning@igc.org> - Davis, California
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