Tunch came in from another expedition outside, promptly came and found me, and then knocked everything he could find off the desk next to me until I paid ATTENTION TO HIM:
Then, once he had my attention, he did an about face and sauntered out of the room:
Why? Because he can, that’s why.
Linnaeus
Does he head rub everything you own just so you know that it’s really his stuff?
asiangrrlMN
Thank you thank you thank you, Cole! I lurrrrrv Tunchie! Please give him a biiiiig hug and kiss for me.
jl
Cole obviously did it wrong, and here he is, blaming the cat.
The impertinence of that human.
If I were Cole, I would be show, you know, maybe a little contrition. Maybe his masters will let it slide this time.
jl
@asiangrrlMN:
Oh, yeah, right. Thanks, AsiangrrlMN for reminding me.
Thnx for pix of the TunchMass.
PS. I look forward to Cole’s story about where Rosie hid his stuff.
Linnaeus
The Tunch Singularity.
Omnes Omnibus
Is that cat part Hutt?
Cat Lady
He’s imploring you to help him find his disappearing legs.
Genine
That’s how Tunch rolls.
Tunch, the Mighty!
He looks fat because he’s full of love and sweetness!
asiangrrlMN
@jl: Hey. How you be? The pics of Tunchie made my night, sadly.
@Omnes Omnibus: YOU TAKE THAT BACK!
robertdsc-PowerBook
Glad to see pix of our King. Thank you!
Roger Moore
I think Tunch must have picked up your Republicanism when you first got him but never underwent your epiphany.
Southern Beale
I posted this downthread, but the DOJ ruled tonight that Rick Perry intentionally discriminated against Hispanics in his redistricting…
The Dangerman
So, you’re confessing it’s your fault?
Well done, silly human.
Wiesman
Open Thread Story Time:
I went to a very conservative Christian high school. I have a Facebook friend from my class who is very active in Tea Party/Republican politics. In fact, she was selected by CNN to ask one of the questions at their GOP debate (not last night, but last week). She is (was?) a very enthusiastic supporter of Rick Perry.
Anyway, we always argue with each other on Facebook about politics. Today on her Wall, I asked her if she was still enthusiastic about Perry, considering his debate performance last night, or if she was willing to give Romney a try.
She replied, “NEVER Romney.”
I asked her if she was still a Perrynista. She replied: “I think Perry is more moderate than the others. I ♥ Santorum, yet he is lacking…something. Not sure what it is. Still undecided.”
Being the evil and godless person I have become I replied: “What is Santorum lacking? Hmmm, not sure. Try Googling!”
Good times.
opal
That’s a happy tail.
Mission accomplished.
jeffreyw
Mmm…cheddar crackers with basil pesto with hazelnuts and asiago.
khead
That’s what cats do. Or that’s what our cats do, at least. Between them and my wife I’m an afterthought in my own house.
I’d like to see those little shits try to pay the mortgage though.
MikeJ
For anyone who wants to try it, there’s a new greasemonkey script available for b-j. It will look at your comments when you submit and warn you if a known spam word is in it.
Requires firefox and greasemonkey. Click on my name to get to the site with it. With any luck cleek will just stuff the whole thing in the pie filter.
Comrade Mary
TUNCH! I haz a happy.
By sheer coincidence, there’s a new Simon’s Cat out now, too.
Omnes Omnibus
@asiangrrlMN: As Fred Schneider sang, “I’m just asking.”
iriedc
Next time you’re getting ready to put on a good dark suit, lay it out on the bed and then get distracted for a minute. When you turn back around that big cat will be curled up asleep right on top of it. This works best when all of your other good dark suits happen to be at the cleaners and you have a big meeting in an hour as my cats would be sure to tell you.
JCT
Holy crap, does that cat look broyges or what?
khead
@Comrade Mary:
Saw it earlier this week. Our newest addition LOVES to paw the monitor (or TV) like in that cartoon…
I’m gonna kill that cat if it knocks over and breaks our TV.
Southern Beale
@Wiesman:
Mwaaahaaaa!
you eeeevul.
I just can’t be friends with people like that.
Sarah in Brooklyn
It’s good to be Tunch.
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus:
Part? WTF would the other part be, Brahman?
asiangrrlMN
@jeffreyw: You keep outdoing yourself! You’re making me drool, and I have a nearly-empty fridge.
@Omnes Omnibus: Uh huh. ::Glares at you::
Southern Beale
Since we’re doing the kitteh thing I posted a “Jedi Kittens Strike Back” video which I found hilarious …
Corner Stone
I don’t know about y’all but I’ve been watching A Gifted Man on CBS and crying my balls off for the last 30 minutes or so.
Omnes Omnibus
@asiangrrlMN: What did I do? Jeez.
Wiesman
@Southern Beale:
I’d have to disown my whole family if I had a similar policy, but I know how you feel. I’m sure they feel the same way about me.
beltane
@Southern Beale: That will make up for last night’s debacle. Mitt Romney should be afraid, very afraid.
nancydarling
Cry me a river, Cole. I just came in from giving the 4 mules who live with me their daily apple and getting my foot stepped on. It would be the biggest of the 4. If a race horse tops out at 1150 for 16 hands, she’s got to weigh 1600 as she is huge. No broken skin and no broken toes, but it hurts like hell.
Memo to self: do not go to the pasture to feed the mules in sandals.
Cain
speaking of fat, my cat snickers I am proud to say lost 2lb from 15 to 13. We are all very proud of her achievement!
Go stickers!
Short Bus Bully
Tunch is in da hizouse…
SHIT JUST GOT REAL.
Southern Beale
We’re watching a British comedy about hit men which is very un-funny on account of being British and about hit men.
Cain
speaking of fat, my cat snickers I am proud to say lost 2lb from 15 to 13. We are all very proud of her achievement!
Go snickers!
lamh34
No time for cat talk, FRINGE is back for what will probably be it’s last season (unless it totally kills on Friday) and I could not be happier. I really can’t wait to see how they handle the mystery of “Peter the Forgotten”. I really have no idea what hey plan to do and I can’t wait to see how it unfolds
cathyx
@Wiesman: It amazes me how many of us have close family who are strict right wingers. I have both parents and a brother.
Cain
margarita time!
eemom
@Corner Stone:
Crying? And balls? You?
Dayum. Who’d’a thunk it.
Jules
kitteh!
FYI for the Doctor Who fans. Now that we know River Song much better The Forest of the Damned requires a few tissues to get though it.
(I DVR’d it the other night and had forgotten the ending…)
soonergrunt
@Wiesman: Ask her how she feels about gay Soldiers, and if she’s cool with the way her party treats military personnel who aren’t straight white males.
@Southern Beale: which is?
Short Bus Bully
@cathyx:
All my in-laws are wingers. Makes x-mas a real shit show.
TaMara (BHF)
Love that Tunch!!
I was out of town for a week, the night I got back, my tuxedo removed the entire contents of my purse (at about 2am) and yowled the whole time while strewing the contents around the house. Why? Ask Tunch.
Anne Laurie
Hee. Squinty eyes is “I like you, you make me feel secure” in Cat. If His Serene Tunchness is gonna go to the trouble of telling Cole that, of course he wants his minion’s full attention… and once he’s made the announcement, why hang around waiting for applause?
SRW1
He sauntered out of the room because you obviously were more interested in playing with that picture making thing than him.
Svensker
@nancydarling:
Sounds almost Mosaic, ya know?
Wiesman
@cathyx:
It’s a pretty common theme, right? I understand the progression from conservative Christian to liberal, having lived it. You go to college, you read some stuff, things you took for granted are suddenly challenged in ways that nobody prepared you for… happens all the time.
What I don’t get is the reverse process, where someone goes from a liberal to a conservative, which happens too. The conservatives will tell you it’s because young people are compassionate, but that all goes out the window when they start earning more money and paying a high share of taxes.
But we were pretty poor when I was a kid, and I was a conservative. I’m doing pretty well for myself now, and I want my taxes raised. So I don’t get how liberals turn conservative. At all.
Mino
Judging from the rolls of hair under Tunch’s neck, I think you’re gonna have a bad winter.
MikeJ
Ooo, got my catalog from the White House Historical Association. Ready to order this year’s xmas tree ornament.
Santa has heard that there are kids in the White House this year: be prepared for outrage over the lack of religion on the ornament that dates back to at least Andrew Johnson but will surely be seen as a sign of creeping Kenyan mooslimism.
Nylund
You just described my daily life ever since I found a stray a year ago…only mine will continue to knock things off my desk until I pull out the wand toy. The cat has trained me good.
Roger Moore
@iriedc:
One more reason to get a black cat instead of some other color.
cathyx
@Wiesman: I don’t know any liberals turn conservative, but plenty of conservatives turn liberal.
opal
@Anne Laurie:
Why indeed.
Still bitter about that class reunion?
fuckwit
By the way, I want to say thank you to whomever posted the link to that Feist cover of Secret Heart. I don’t know what blog it came from– I have a script that scrapes all the videos from the sites I read, and I have Flash turned off so I don’t have to deal with that stuff when I come to the sites. But if it was someone here, than thank you, that performance was brilliant on so many levels.
arguingwithsignposts
socialism. test.
YellowJournalism
TUUUUNCH!
Just what I needed to brighten the last day in a shitty week. That, chinese food, hugs from my boys, and Supernatural back on my TV.
Roger Moore
Thread needs more parrot.
Corner Stone
@Roger Moore:
Nah. opal has already made her appearance.
MosesZD
HA! I have a cat just like that!
Svensker
@Roger Moore:
Wait, wut? Where is that? What is that parrot doing to the other parrot? Were any body parts lost?
Comrade Mary
Parrot puking parrot?
Chris
@arguingwithsignposts:
Holy dogshit! Is that word back on the menu?
burnspbesq
Sox and FTFY rained out.
Toronto leads Tampa, 5-0, in the eighth.
Angels and Oakland start in a half hour.
I luvs me some scoreboard-watching.
jibeaux
I’m going to share something a friend wrote and put on FB, called Cat Haiku.
Southern Beale
@arguingwithsignposts:
How’d you do that? Get that word in here?
burnspbesq
The funniest take on the recent college sports realignment spasm has to be the ACC membership application cooked up by the guys at Sports Pickle.
http://www.sportspickle.com/opinion/8088/application-for-acc-membership
ETA: The SEC application isn’t bad, either.
http://www.sportspickle.com/opinion/8071/application-for-sec-membership
Roger Moore
@Svensker:
My understanding is that it’s probably an adolescent parrot getting food from its parent. Even after they’re full sized, the young ones will still beg for food from their parents sometimes.
Southern Beale
@arguingwithsignposts:
How’d you do that? Get that word in here?
MikeJ
@arguingwithsignposts: It should have warned you before that posted. Did you install it after downloading it?
If not, all you need to do to install is drag and drop it into any firefox browser window, and if you have greasemonkey, it should offer to install it.
Svensker
@Roger Moore:
Makes sense. Are you somewhere you can see parrots in the wild?
arguingwithsignposts
@MikeJ: it didn’t offer the install option for some reason, just add script. i copied the code into another document. i’ll try dragging it into a window.
Southern Beale
Wait until you have kids.
Also, I know people who dabbled in a little excessive behavior as liberals and feel they need to atone (and blame) someone/thing for that.
And finally, the biggest reason: it’s a very cult-like atmosphere in these conservative Christian circles. You get sucked in. Some of these megachurches, they basically become your family, your social circle, your entire world. It’s easy to get sucked in.
arguingwithsignposts
socia1ism. test.
worked this time. thanks.
Southern Beale
@soonergrunt:
The name of the movie is Wild Target. Very lame. But Emily Blunt looks gorgeous.
birthmarker
@jibeaux: Ha!!
arguingwithsignposts
to @all: go back to the way you were, there is no soshulism word in play. it just got pulled out of moderation.
MikeJ
@arguingwithsignposts: Sadly the google page it’s hosted on doesn’t do the right thing with gm scripts when it serves them.
I was going to throw it on userscripts, but since I built my new computer (that doesn’t have the cookies saved from my old one) I have no idea what my pwd is there.
MattR
This picture seems appropriate. Don’t ever submit Lily to this indignity.
Southern Beale
Why do the British say “in hospital” instead of “in THE hosptial”? WTF is up with that?
Litlebritdifrnt2
I went to the airport this evening to pick up my mum. I saw something that I thought I would never see in my lifetime. People were lining up to go through security to go out on the flight that my mum was coming in on. There were two marines stood by the side. One had already taken off his shoes so he was obviously the one who was flying. They lingered until the very last person had gone through security and the marine was the last one. He and his buddy fist bumped and then held hands for a second. The second marine then leant over and very gently kissed the other on the cheek. It wasn’t a huge display of affection and it happened in an instant. The flying marine went through security and the other lingered outside the security area until his friend was out of sight. I wept. When I related the story to my Mum after she had landed I had to choke back tears, thinking that such a thing would have been impossible a week ago. This is truly a new world.
Roger Moore
@Svensker:
I’m somewhere (Pasadena, CA) I can see feral parrots. I’m not sure if that counts as “in the wild”, but they are at least free-roaming. We have several species that have established breeding flocks that survive very nicely by flying around eating fruit from backyard trees. The ones in the picture are Red Crowned Amazons, which are now critically endangered in their native habitat. There are probably more ferals living in Southern California than there are left in their native Mexico.
Omnes Omnibus
@Southern Beale: They are saving letters so they have space to add a “u” to words like color and glamor.
Comrade Mary
@Litlebritdifrnt2: That’s beautiful. Really.
nancydarling
@Litlebritdifrnt2: This is the best thing I’ve read all day.
MikeJ
@Southern Beale: Also too, if you’re hurt you go to A&E, not the emergency room.
opal
@Svensker:
I’ve worked with exotic birds, and they “kiss” you if they trust you.
It’s like a cat purring.
Southern Beale
@MikeJ:
A&E? The cable channel?
:-)
Southern Beale
@Roger Moore:
Hey I was in Pasadena back in July. I swear to God I saw a bald eagle soaring over the valley when I was on the 134. I’m sure it wasn’t a turkey vulture or any other really big bird. When I got home I Googled and saw some reports of a bald eagle. Have you ever seen such a thing out there?
MikeJ
@Southern Beale: I almost wound up in hospital when I had to take a friend to A&E for something minor and wouldn’t stop saying, “next time on Biography, the story of a drunken lout who couldn’t step off a curb…”
russell
mission accomplished
MacKenna
What do cats waaaaaaaaaaaant?
It is a mystery.
MikeJ
@MacKenna: I do know what girls waaaant.
gogol's wife
Oooh, “Inspector Morse” and now Tunch. I’m in heaven.
Martin
@Svensker: There’s quite a few wild parrots here in SoCal. I see them at my house about once a week now.
@Southern Beale: Never seen a bald eagle around here. Vultures, hawks, egrets, peregrine falcons. Never an eagle of any sort.
MikeJ
@MikeJ: I apologize. I had no idea they had censored that video. Of course the line is “I want love, I want drugs, I want sex and affection”, but they seem to double the love in that video so they can skip the drugs.
nancydarling
@Southern Beale: I’m pretty sure they nest on Catalina Island. We have tons of bald eagles who winter here in NW Arkansas. I was up the hill on my place once and saw about 50 of them circling above. Out for a tour of the neighborhood I suppose. I’m about as far from Beaver Lake and the White River as Catalina is from Pasadena, so it’s not impossible. Also, there are probably some in the San Bernardino Mountains which is very close.
Delia
@Roger Moore:
That’s amazing. I lived in Southern California for nearly 30 years and moved about seven years ago, but never heard about feral parrots. They’re beautiful.
scav
@Southern Beale: Well, maybe they don’t have this single unique THE hospital they all go to.
nancydarling
@Delia: There are groups of parrots in the beach cities and the Palos Verdes Peninsula.
Southern Beale
@Martin:
Well in 2008 one was sighted in the Rio Hondo area, which isn’t too terribly far from you as the eagle flies …
Southern Beale
@nancydarling:
We have them in Tennessee too, also up in Kentucky. The migratory ones. I’ve never heard of bald eagles on Catalina Island but I’m not all that up on Channel Islands wildlife.
nancydarling
I just checked and there are web cams at the nests of the Channel Island sites.
http://www.iws.org/bald_eagles/nestcam.htm
Southern Beale
Oooh good panel on Bill Maher …
Southern Beale
@nancydarling:
Oh cool, thanks.
handy
@Delia:
There’s a pack that hovers around the western San Gabriel valley area, Pasadena and Arcadia in particular. Rumor has it that their progenitors were in transit across the 210 freeway and got loose when the vehicle carrying them had an accident.
They are very loud, and when they all converge atop the roof of your house on, say, a Saturday morning after an eventful Friday night, they are unbearable.
eemom
@Litlebritdifrnt2:
they weren’t military, but this reminds me of something I saw on an Amtrak train platform in Philadelphia many years ago: a gay couple parting as one of them boarded the train….and how he took a careful look around the crowd before hugging his partner goodbye.
Southern Beale
We saw some feral parrots when we were in San Francisco, I guess the Telegraph Hill population. It was surreal because when we were in Costa Rica we saw huge flocks of them and of course, that looked bizarre if you’ve only seen parrots in a pet store but you’re in central America so they’re supposed to be there…
MikeJ
@handy: Brooklyn also has feral parrots. I believe the story is they escaped from a shipment at JFK. Googling brooklyn parrots will give you much info.
Southern Beale
Apparently the wild parrots of Telegraph Hill were really parakeets. I don’t know the difference.
And Another Thing…
@Roger Moore: I visited an aunt in Long Beach and there’s a flock of about 40 living in the area near UC Long Beach. It’s a stunningly unexpected sight. They make a lot of noise, also, too.
nancydarling
Driftglass has a lovely take down of aspiring culture critic David Brooks on his blog. It is called “F. Scott Fitzbobo”.
SiubhanDuinne
@Cain:
I kinda liked “stickers.”
Scuffletuffle
@Southern Beale: I watched that 2 weeks ago and thought it was hilarious!
Litlebritdifrnt2
@eemom: This struck me as being so normal, it was obvious that the two were a couple, the lingering before going for the flight, the lingering of the remaining marine, waiting for a last look as his partner went out of sight. It was just so damn NORMAL, and I honestly never thought I would see such a thing. The only part that gave me pause was that kiss on the cheek. Sure they could have worn assless chaps and gone for the full french kiss (as the damn repups have told us they would) but they didn’t, they simply held hands, and then when the time came to say goodbye it was a gentle kiss on the cheek, how many hetro couples would have done that? None. I know that we are a long way from a full acceptance from the LGBT relationships but we are getting there. That I can live with.
handy
@And Another Thing…:
Heh, I grew up near there don’t remember seeing (or hearing) those.
Also, too, apparently explosions did bring down the Two Towers on 9/11. But truthers aren’t gonna be happy about these findings.
Southern Beale
Gah Michael Moore repeating the myth about when Obama “had those 60 votes in the Senate” … he never had them. Al Franken didn’t get seated for months … Kennedy was out sick …
Southern Beale
@handy:
Oh sure that’s just what “they” WANT you to think! You going to believe that government propaganda?
:-)
Fulcanelli
Now this is funny.
Good times…
srv
@Litlebritdifrnt2: Win.
celiadexter
I would in no way fuck with a cat who presented with that expression. I would in no way fuck with a cat CAPABLE of that expression. I speak from experience…
Comrade Mary
@MikeJ: I know what boys like. I know guys want.
Southern Beale
@Fulcanelli:
Interesting it spiraled down into a sewer of arguing over Ron Paul. So many political conversations do these days.
Omnes Omnibus
@Comrade Mary: Or this…
Comrade Mary
Ooh, neat version! Go Josie!
So whatever happened to Shirley Manson?
Lyrebird
@Southern Beale: Oh thank you that was excellent! Even better than the Jim Henson tribute today on Google, also excellent.
Suffern ACE
Go Cubs.
schrodinger's cat
Tunch for the FTW! How I have missed the magnificent feline. Thanks John.
Omnes Omnibus
@Comrade Mary: She hasn’t been seen in Madison recently, more’s the pity.
Yutsano
@Litlebritdifrnt2: In North Carolina they definitely will not be the last. Good Dawgs. :)
Elie
Tunch is a happy cat.
He’s got you to manipulate and manage. All is good. That white fur, the best evidence of his frame of mind, is sparkling white and perfectly groomed. In his mind, you are his slave. Its as it should be.
Elie
@Southern Beale:
Chicago has a bunch of monk parakeets that are feral. Yes, Chicago. They make these huge nests that keep them warm in winter months and scrounge bird feed from backyard feeders during the winter months
http://www.chicagowildernessmag.org/issues/winter2003/monkparakeets.html
pjcamp
Does he have hind legs?
Cuz I can’t tell.
J. A. Baker
@Roger Moore: Or cockatiels singing the Final Fantasy victory fanfare.
No one of importance
@Southern Beale:
Because hospital is a state, not a building ;)
That why they’re under the doctor, not being treated by one!
Triassic Sands
It’s true that Tunch acts like a cat, but in my experience he acts more like the way female cats act than males. Of course, there is wide variation, so we can expect to see virtually any behavior from at least some members of each sex. However, the females I’ve had have been much more prone to this kind of demanding/self-centered me-me-me behavior.
And generally, I think neutered females are more interesting than neutered male cats.
@khead:
Wow, for your sake I hope your wife doesn’t see that last sentence. Maybe you should reword it for absolute clarity.
harlana
aaahh, my longing for Tunch pics is almost sated – a few more pics and i should be ok
ok, since this is a pet thread, i need to share this. my cat has been disappearing, like when i’m cleaning the house or doing something that gets on her nerves. i will go and check every possible hiding space and she’s not there, for the life of me, i cannot figure out where she goes
is she teleporting?
WaterGirl
@Anne Laurie :Really? I thought I had read that squinty eyes meant they were scared, which made sense to me because my kitties had very squinty eyes in their photos at the humane society before I got them. Not I don’t know what to think.
Triassic Sands
From the “Handbook of Master-Staff Relations”:
Tunch is just following the guidelines.