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Re: The Aftermath: Pet Counts

by Casual Observer » Mon Jul 16, 2018 7:33 pm

Billy Mays wrote: Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:43 pm I would in actuality express empathy as I have experienced similar transgressions in my life.
Of all the posts I've encountered in my travels . . . This was the most . . . Human.

Re: The Aftermath: Pet Counts

by Billy Mays » Mon Jul 16, 2018 3:43 pm

I would in actuality express empathy as I have experienced similar transgressions in my life.

Re: The Aftermath: Pet Counts

by Casual Observer » Mon Jul 16, 2018 12:20 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Mon Jul 16, 2018 11:09 am
Casual Observer wrote: Fri Jul 13, 2018 10:03 am
pinback wrote: Fri Jul 13, 2018 5:08 am I'm nearly certain you could live there.
My wife is black, I can't live anywhere near the south.
That's what they always say about the south, not a lot of people of African-American descent there.
heh, funny but the problem is there's still way more white people and they're not the most enlightened folks you'll ever meet. There's racist white people everywhere though, can't really escape it anywhere. Just the other day in Walnut Creek, about 10 miles from where I live, while sitting at a bar picking up takeout I had a white guy comment to me that he could never live in Pittsburg (CA) because "there are too many black people there". I won't even get into detail about shit we've run into with small town cops here or even some treatment at restaurants.

Billy will call it "fake news" though because he's a trumpster.

Re: The Aftermath: Pet Counts

by Ice Cream Jonsey » Mon Jul 16, 2018 11:09 am

Casual Observer wrote: Fri Jul 13, 2018 10:03 am
pinback wrote: Fri Jul 13, 2018 5:08 am I'm nearly certain you could live there.
My wife is black, I can't live anywhere near the south.
That's what they always say about the south, not a lot of people of African-American descent there.

Re: The Aftermath: Pet Counts

by Tdarcos » Sun Jul 15, 2018 10:09 pm

My mother decided to buy a pedigreed dog with actual papers and spent $200 for him. We typically get dogs from the pound but my mother got tricked into buying one by visiting a pet store where they put you and the animal in a pen and let you play with it for a few minutes. She was hooked.

She named him "Buttons," but the AKC papers said you have to think of a unique name. So I decided to officially name him, "Sir Buttons of House Robinson," suspecting that was unlikely to be used. We never did register the dog, though.

Re: The Aftermath: Pet Counts

by Casual Observer » Fri Jul 13, 2018 10:03 am

pinback wrote: Fri Jul 13, 2018 5:08 am I'm nearly certain you could live there.
My wife is black, I can't live anywhere near the south.

Re: The Aftermath: Pet Counts

by Flack » Fri Jul 13, 2018 8:45 am

Shortly before adopting our rescue dog my kids visited both the Titanic Experience in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, and the Titanic Museum in Belfast, Ireland, which is why the dog's name is Molly (Brown).

The cat's name is Dusty Springtail, which literally nobody calls her, ever. The cat's unofficial name is "Cat-Cat," although depending on what she's doing at the moment, that changes. When she's riding on someone's shoulder like a parrot (an annoying thing my family encourages) she becomes "Shoulder Cat." When you wake up and find her sleeping near your feet (which my family treats like winning the lottery), she's "Foot Cat." When she throws up (almost daily) I yell out "Hacky Cat," which hasn't really caught on but is one of my favorites. It really doesn't matter what you call her because she rarely reacts to anything any of us say.

Re: The Aftermath: Pet Counts

by pinback » Fri Jul 13, 2018 5:08 am

Casual Observer wrote: Thu Jul 12, 2018 7:16 pmNashville and i couldn't live there.
I'm nearly certain you could live there.

Re: The Aftermath: Pet Counts

by Ice Cream Jonsey » Thu Jul 12, 2018 7:59 pm

Has anyone broken the news to Mina yet about LeBron?

Re: The Aftermath: Pet Counts

by Casual Observer » Thu Jul 12, 2018 7:16 pm

Sounds awesome, actually, thanks for the details. I could never live back near family because Rochester and jobs. Cincinnati, Albuquerque, Nashville seem oddball a bit to me but only because i never considered living there. Only one of those I've been to is Nashville and i couldn't live there.

Re: The Aftermath: Pet Counts

by pinback » Thu Jul 12, 2018 6:50 pm

Casual Observer wrote: Thu Jul 12, 2018 6:45 pm Pinback, why do you move so much? I moved from Rachacha to Seattle to Bay area over last couple decades but you seem to have lived in three times that or more. Don't you do software development? Why move to all these oddball places?
We lived in Nashville for five years, whaddya want from me.

I move to all these oddball places (here we are for some reason calling "Nashville", "Albuquerque", "Denver", "Seattle", and "Cincinatti" oddball places) because I work remotely, and because we like a change of scenery now and again, though the move to Ohio was mainly for the kid, so she can be near family and good schools and hospitals.

Re: The Aftermath: Pet Counts

by pinback » Thu Jul 12, 2018 6:49 pm

Well, while I'm here, let me clarify why we named our animals their names, almost all of which are related to movie/TV shows we like.

Harley: Kathy likes Harley Quinn.
Boomer: Battlestar Galactica
Penelope: That was her name when we got her, the only one on this list to keep their name.

Skyler: Obvious.
Cody: He's orange, and we liked Cody McLeod, who was an orange-haired Colorado Avalanche player at the time.

Bruce: Jaws, as previously mentioned.

Dink: Game of Thrones (Let me know if you need help with this one.)

Kevin: The Leftovers
Pope Pius XIII: The Young Pope

Re: The Aftermath: Pet Counts

by Casual Observer » Thu Jul 12, 2018 6:45 pm

Pinback, why do you move so much? I moved from Rachacha to Seattle to Bay area over last couple decades but you seem to have lived in three times that or more. Don't you do software development? Why move to all these oddball places?

Re: The Aftermath: Pet Counts

by pinback » Thu Jul 12, 2018 6:44 pm

Dragon:
- Bruce
Seeing it written like this, it looks like we were making a martial-arts reference here. We were not.

We were making a Jaws reference.

Re: The Aftermath: Pet Counts

by pinback » Thu Jul 12, 2018 6:07 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Wed Jul 11, 2018 7:57 pm Names, please. Names! We know that Boomer, Harley and Penelope are the dogs. I need names for the rest of 'em.

Wait, didn't you also have rats and spiders?
Cats:
- Skyler (she's white. get it)
- Cody

Dragon:
- Bruce

Bunny:
- Dink

Rats: oh fuck I forgot we even had rats, they're staying with family while we moved to Ohio:
- Kevin
- Pope Pius XIII

Spiders:
- Dead

Re: The Aftermath: Pet Counts

by Jizaboz » Thu Jul 12, 2018 4:15 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Wed Jul 11, 2018 7:57 pm Names, please. Names! We know that Boomer, Harley and Penelope are the dogs. I need names for the rest of 'em.

Wait, didn't you also have rats and spiders?
Hahaha CGG! Yeah we need bug names.

The cat’s name was originally “little cat” but now it’s “Cat Dracula”.

Re: The Aftermath: Pet Counts

by ChainGangGuy » Thu Jul 12, 2018 1:26 pm

Yeah, on second thought, maybe let's skip the bug names unless it's something like "Mister Bug" 1 through 2983.

Re: The Aftermath: Pet Counts

by ChainGangGuy » Thu Jul 12, 2018 1:25 pm

Yes, I think having the names of everyone's animals provided would help to take this thread OVER THE EDGE

Re: The Aftermath: Pet Counts

by Ice Cream Jonsey » Wed Jul 11, 2018 7:57 pm

Names, please. Names! We know that Boomer, Harley and Penelope are the dogs. I need names for the rest of 'em.

Wait, didn't you also have rats and spiders?

Re: The Aftermath: Pet Counts

by pinback » Wed Jul 11, 2018 9:07 am

3 dogs
2 cats
1 bunny
1 bearded dragon
2983 Dubia roaches

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