Comments on: Pull Up A Chair… http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/30/pull-up-a-chair-29/ Firedoglake weblog Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:03:07 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: mandrake http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/30/pull-up-a-chair-29/#comment-437076 mandrake Sat, 30 Dec 2006 23:07:33 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/30/pull-up-a-chair-29/#comment-437076 <p><b>Waccamaw</b>: will be looking out for you and snowbird when I can get this e-mail thing figured out! I didn’t notice a new thread on here which is why I am posting here. Still popping Sudafed!</p> Waccamaw: will be looking out for you and snowbird when I can get this e-mail thing figured out! I didn’t notice a new thread on here which is why I am posting here. Still popping Sudafed!

]]> By: mandrake http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/30/pull-up-a-chair-29/#comment-437067 mandrake Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:58:44 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/30/pull-up-a-chair-29/#comment-437067 <p><a href="#comment-436517"><em>RT @ 101 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p>Mornin’, y’all! I’m a 52 year old government statistician and former math professor. Married, no kids (considering adoption), Virginia expat living across the river in southern MD. Seeing all the posts from SC residents makes me nostalgic - I got my doctorate at USC, which is where I met my wife. (Gamecocks won, Clemson lost in yesterday’s bowls!)</p> <p>For fun, I do a lot of bicycling, and enjoy hiking if it’s somewhere with a lot of natural beauty. My perfect day would be to hike the Highline Trail in Glacier National Park during the day, then wash up and have dinner at Truby’s in Whitefish, MT, which has raised pizza to an art form like I’ve never experienced elsewhere. In my younger days, I used to go caving in the limestone belt that runs along the VA/WV border.</p> <p>I read a lot, I’ve been debating politics online for the past 7 years at the <a href="http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/">Straight Dope Message Board</a> where I post as RTFirefly (I’m a Marx Brothers fan, and enjoy many other kinds of comedy, especially Firesign Theatre and Monty Python), used to have a veggie garden, but it’s getting shaded out by the ever-taller trees in the woods behind the house, and I’ve been known to juggle. My wife and I have three cats, because life without felines would be a poor life indeed.</p></blockquote> <p>Go Gamecocks! I’m from Camden, right outside of Columbia. Considering moving back there.</p> RT @ 101

Mornin’, y’all! I’m a 52 year old government statistician and former math professor. Married, no kids (considering adoption), Virginia expat living across the river in southern MD. Seeing all the posts from SC residents makes me nostalgic – I got my doctorate at USC, which is where I met my wife. (Gamecocks won, Clemson lost in yesterday’s bowls!)

For fun, I do a lot of bicycling, and enjoy hiking if it’s somewhere with a lot of natural beauty. My perfect day would be to hike the Highline Trail in Glacier National Park during the day, then wash up and have dinner at Truby’s in Whitefish, MT, which has raised pizza to an art form like I’ve never experienced elsewhere. In my younger days, I used to go caving in the limestone belt that runs along the VA/WV border.

I read a lot, I’ve been debating politics online for the past 7 years at the Straight Dope Message Board where I post as RTFirefly (I’m a Marx Brothers fan, and enjoy many other kinds of comedy, especially Firesign Theatre and Monty Python), used to have a veggie garden, but it’s getting shaded out by the ever-taller trees in the woods behind the house, and I’ve been known to juggle. My wife and I have three cats, because life without felines would be a poor life indeed.

Go Gamecocks! I’m from Camden, right outside of Columbia. Considering moving back there.

]]> By: Mommybrain http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/30/pull-up-a-chair-29/#comment-436988 Mommybrain Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:12:29 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/30/pull-up-a-chair-29/#comment-436988 <p>Hi Marion, Merry and Happy to you. I guess the flavor of cats is akin to breeds of dogs. I noticed that almost all the tuxedo cats I met had similar personalities, perhaps due to the Siamese in ‘em. Ditto orange tabbies and Russian Blues,which I suspect Lucky is, partly. </p> <p>I hope to get some pictures of my “new” old kitties to share, when I get home again.</p> Hi Marion, Merry and Happy to you. I guess the flavor of cats is akin to breeds of dogs. I noticed that almost all the tuxedo cats I met had similar personalities, perhaps due to the Siamese in ‘em. Ditto orange tabbies and Russian Blues,which I suspect Lucky is, partly.

I hope to get some pictures of my “new” old kitties to share, when I get home again.

]]> By: Marion in Savannah http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/30/pull-up-a-chair-29/#comment-436982 Marion in Savannah Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:05:40 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/30/pull-up-a-chair-29/#comment-436982 <p>Well, mommybrain, I guess that would explain why we haven’t seen new Kliban work… I envy you the orange tabby. They’ve always been my secret favorite “flavor” of cats. (Not that I don’t love my black and Meezer, you understand…!)</p> Well, mommybrain, I guess that would explain why we haven’t seen new Kliban work… I envy you the orange tabby. They’ve always been my secret favorite “flavor” of cats. (Not that I don’t love my black and Meezer, you understand…!)

]]> By: Mommybrain http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/30/pull-up-a-chair-29/#comment-436966 Mommybrain Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:51:25 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/30/pull-up-a-chair-29/#comment-436966 <p>catz! wunnerful aminals. Got two older cats this summer - one 8 years, 19.9 lbs., the other 5, a little scrawny - from the family of their previous owner who passed in April. Lucky, the monstercat, has a Hilter moustache sliding off his nose. </p> <p>He’s lost almost 5 ibs living with us, being outside and chasing mice and gophers. Sunny (now Nick, for the missing piece of his ear) is filling out nicely and a perfect role model for our new kitten, Toby (October Kitten), also an orange tabby. I like dogs OK, we have several of those also, but I’m crazy about catz.</p> <p>Kliban, BTW, passed in 1990. Love to eat them mousies..</p> catz! wunnerful aminals. Got two older cats this summer – one 8 years, 19.9 lbs., the other 5, a little scrawny – from the family of their previous owner who passed in April. Lucky, the monstercat, has a Hilter moustache sliding off his nose.

He’s lost almost 5 ibs living with us, being outside and chasing mice and gophers. Sunny (now Nick, for the missing piece of his ear) is filling out nicely and a perfect role model for our new kitten, Toby (October Kitten), also an orange tabby. I like dogs OK, we have several of those also, but I’m crazy about catz.

Kliban, BTW, passed in 1990. Love to eat them mousies..

]]> By: Marion in Savannah http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/30/pull-up-a-chair-29/#comment-436950 Marion in Savannah Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:24:54 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/30/pull-up-a-chair-29/#comment-436950 <p>I don’t know where Kliban and his cats went. He might have decided that he had said what he wanted to say. I used to have a set of placemats with one of them sitting on the fence singing his song:</p> <p>Love to eat them mousies,<br /> Mousies what I loves to eat.<br /> Bite they little heads off,<br /> Nibble on they tiny feet.</p> <p>And the Kliban cat in love, saying to his lady fair “If I had two dead rats I’d give you one.” </p> <p>He’s still funny… Come to think of it, I haven’t really seen any Kliban stuff for oh, gosh, over 20 years.</p> I don’t know where Kliban and his cats went. He might have decided that he had said what he wanted to say. I used to have a set of placemats with one of them sitting on the fence singing his song:

Love to eat them mousies,
Mousies what I loves to eat.
Bite they little heads off,
Nibble on they tiny feet.

And the Kliban cat in love, saying to his lady fair “If I had two dead rats I’d give you one.”

He’s still funny… Come to think of it, I haven’t really seen any Kliban stuff for oh, gosh, over 20 years.

]]> By: mrsmarks http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/30/pull-up-a-chair-29/#comment-436947 mrsmarks Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:21:47 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/30/pull-up-a-chair-29/#comment-436947 <p>Ooops. KILBAN.</p> Ooops. KILBAN.

]]> By: mrsmarks http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/30/pull-up-a-chair-29/#comment-436945 mrsmarks Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:21:19 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/30/pull-up-a-chair-29/#comment-436945 <p>Marion in Savannah: What happened to the Kikban cats? When I mention ‘em these days, even to cat owners, I hear crickets.</p> Marion in Savannah: What happened to the Kikban cats? When I mention ‘em these days, even to cat owners, I hear crickets.

]]> By: Marion in Savannah http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/30/pull-up-a-chair-29/#comment-436941 Marion in Savannah Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:18:01 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/30/pull-up-a-chair-29/#comment-436941 <p>Mrsmarks, I think it was Kliban, of the Kliban cats, who elaborated on their vocabulary. He quoted his as saying: “Me out. Me out. Me out now. Me out, prowl now.” He said that rarely they would say “wacka wacka,” and I swear to heaven above I once had a little male tabby who looked me square in the eye and said “wacka wacka.” Life would be so diminished without cats!</p> Mrsmarks, I think it was Kliban, of the Kliban cats, who elaborated on their vocabulary. He quoted his as saying: “Me out. Me out. Me out now. Me out, prowl now.” He said that rarely they would say “wacka wacka,” and I swear to heaven above I once had a little male tabby who looked me square in the eye and said “wacka wacka.” Life would be so diminished without cats!

]]> By: mrsmarks http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/30/pull-up-a-chair-29/#comment-436937 mrsmarks Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:12:18 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/12/30/pull-up-a-chair-29/#comment-436937 <p><a href="#comment-436927"><em>Marion in Savannah @ 249 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p>Mrsmarks, are you sure it isn’t the Cats Against Unbridled Literacy Kampaign? I hope it is CAULK, because I’ve got this little place in my bathroom by the tub…</p></blockquote> <p>Friend, I’ve got the same place by my tub. Nothing like tubs and print to stir up the meowers. (Mine actually sound like they’re saying “NNNNNeeeeeoooooow. As in NOW!!!!!!!)</p> Marion in Savannah @ 249

Mrsmarks, are you sure it isn’t the Cats Against Unbridled Literacy Kampaign? I hope it is CAULK, because I’ve got this little place in my bathroom by the tub…

Friend, I’ve got the same place by my tub. Nothing like tubs and print to stir up the meowers. (Mine actually sound like they’re saying “NNNNNeeeeeoooooow. As in NOW!!!!!!!)

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