Anyways, we have Schrodinger now. I'll post a picture in the drunk base

[quote=Tdarcos post_id=110531 time=1592125670 user_id=829]"This is what happens when you let the kittens play with the car keys."
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Well, the problem here is that this is just too believable of a situation. Like a cat could be playing with a set of keys, drop it in the toilet for whatever reason, and then want to retrieve it to play with it some more. It would be like if you captioned it this:


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"This is what happens when AArdvark's cat sticks part of its body in the toilet and then AArdvark photographs it."


See? It just doesn't work well as a caption and that is why AArdvark's original caption is still the best one: because it hits that sweet spot between completely absurd (your first caption) and completely believable (your most recent one).

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"This is what happens when you let the kittens play with the car keys."

[quote="Billy Mays" post_id=110526 time=1592123012 user_id=1042]
[quote=Tdarcos post_id=110491 time=1592074705 user_id=829]A better caption would have been, "Now how do I get my cell phone back?"
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I like AArdvark's caption better because cats don't own cell phones.
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No shit, Sherlock. They also don't drink "little Friskies cocktails" if for no other reason than that there is no such thing, and Little Friskies is kitten food; that was a full-grown adult cat. Cats also don't drink alcoholic beverages. Also, cats don't use toilets to puke in, they just puke on the floor. My fake caption is just as "realistic" as the first, i.e. not at all. Besides, even if a cat was going to use a toilet, it doesn't have to stick its head (and half its body) into the bowl if it needed to vomit any more than people do. But if it had to try to get something [i]out[/i] of the bowl, it [i]would[/i] have to.

[quote=Tdarcos post_id=110491 time=1592074705 user_id=829]A better caption would have been, "Now how do I get my cell phone back?"
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I like AArdvark's caption better because cats don't own cell phones.

[quote=AArdvark post_id=110034 time=1591317812 user_id=20]
Too many Little Friskies cocktails

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A better caption would have been, "Now how do I get my cell phone back?"

Its me, I'm not feeling a replacement kitty just now. Toonces isnt even cold in his grave yet

[quote=AArdvark post_id=110483 time=1592068127 user_id=20]
well I guess we're getting a new cat today, kinda against my wishes.

THE
TOO SOON
AARDVARK
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Did you consider using TOO SOONCES in your signature there? I think you missed an opportunity there or maybe I have things all wrong, I don't know.

well I guess we're getting a new cat today, kinda against my wishes.

THE
TOO SOON
AARDVARK

Happy belated birthday wishes AArdvark! For future reference, what date is your birthday exactly? If I'd have known I would have definitely started a birthday thread for you, but I suppose this year probably didn't feel particularly joyful or festive under the circumstances.

Too many Little Friskies cocktails

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Thank you for the birthday wishes!

Arctic Snow Cat

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Here Aardvark, here is a picture of my friend Cat Dracula.

https://i.imgur.com/ox9hp2l.jpg

Also, belated happy birthday, man!

Yeah, I always advise people to take a lot of pictures, especially of everyday things. It's great to have pictures at special events and so on, but years later when you look at them and think back, it's really cool to say "Oh, that's the bedroom of my old apartment at <location>!" or "Hey, that's my old desk at work!" My wife and I try to take pictures of the sign outside every restaurant we eat at (in addition to regular pictures). Personally, I take one or two pictures every day at 4:04pm, no matter where I am. That way I can look back years later and think "Oh, right - that's where I was living/what I was doing at that time in my life." Of it's just a picture of my computer screen, but it's interesting to see news headlines, games I'd been playing, emails, and so on. I recently came across a long-forgotten email archive I had squirreled away many years ago, some of them going back to the early 90's. There are one or two or them from Pinback. Archiving email is almost as good as having a journal because it shows exactly what you were up to and who you were communicating with at the time.

It never gets any easier... I'm glad that I have some video of Toonces. He's the first pet that got captured forever on video

Everyone please take gigabytes of video of your pets

I very sorry, too. I'm am obsessive cat lover and in last fall I had to help my friend Theo leave his pain behind, so I know how it feels. There's not much to say except "I'm sorry" and "get another kitty as soon as you feel ready." Unfortunately all we can do is miss them and remember how much we loved them.

Theo was with me almost 19 years, from 2001-2019. I love all cats, but the reason he was especially important to me is because he represented my old life, and shared some very difficult and lonely times with me. I got him as a kitten when I had just moved back from Europe and was in MA stupidly trying to start my own business. Then when that failed, he any my other kitty Timmy spent a decade doing a tour of New England and DC - getting jobs, losing jobs, periods of poverty and unemployment, moving constantly, much loneliness. But I always had my guys. Between 1999 and 2012 I think I had a dozen different mailing addresses. But Timmy and Theo were always there with me. After Timmy went away circa 2010 due to a tragic mistake on my part for which I will never forgive myself, Theo was my remaining pal. He was the most loyal friend one could ever ask for and loved me so much - and ONLY me, as it turned out, because when my now-wife came along he was very aloof towards the competition. Though he mellowed out to her gradually, he never was nearly as affectionate with her as with me, saving all his real lovins for me. When he developed squamous cell carcinoma there was nothing I could do. I treated his pain as well as I could for a while, but you know how cats are - wren in pain, they retreat and withdraw. When his doctor said "even with the best meds, he's in a lot of pain" I couldn't put off the decision anymore. Luckily my amazing wife Chanda was a vet tech for a very long time and helped me so much to give him the very best care possible and made the euthanasia as easy for me as possible. He died in my arms. At least at the end he was very calm and comfortable. He had a sedative, Propophol, just beforehand, and it's nice because it makes them all laid back and hazy and melty and even a squirmy cat will be happy in your arms being petted. But man, giving the nod to have them do the final shot.... it's one of the toughest things I ever have to do. Sniff. Now I'm al verklempt. :sad:

I'd put a picture, but I don't have one at any URL and I don't know how to upload one to the message. :-(

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