I’m not even sure I’m allowed to post open thread…. But well, I don’t follow rules well regardless.
Here is my dog. Admit he’s cute.
Also, feel free to follow my twitter feed @bernardfinel where I am currently talking Webster report with national treasure Marcy Wheeler @emptywheel.
UPDATE: Hmm, dog pic won’t post. Use thread to comment of my lack of technical skills.
UPDATE 2: Dog
Baud
Rebel thread…
I like it.
West of the Cascades
The imaginary dog IS cute, in my imagination. Or is this some sort of meta-joke about Romney withholding his tax returns?
quannlace
Can we talk some more about eggs?
Svensker
Invisible dog is invisible. But VERY cute.
kdaug
Here’s my dog:
He’s far cuter than yours. Empirically.
Discuss.
Josie
Hard to judge the dog’s cuteness. Don’t know you well enough to take your word for it.
BGinCHI
White dog in a snow storm.
Very original.
Comrade Mary
He had a dog before. He showed a picture. Maybe there is no dog. Maybe we’ve been had.
Amir Khalid
Your dog is adorable. How many fingers am I holding up?
Omnes Omnibus
@West of the Cascades:
@Svensker: Interesting. I pictured something more like this.
Comrade Carter
He’s very cute, if invisible is cute.
jimPortlandOR
Bernard did a great job of training his dog to not be seen, nor heard.
It does pose a problem of tripping over the poor dog while walking through the house.
robertdsc-iPhone 4
I forgot to mention in Betty’s thread that the name Dorito cracks me up.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
This thread is over my head as I have not begun to consume alcohol.
Violet
I’m so jealous! Your dog has a Cloak of Invisibility! Still, a very cute dog.
burnspbesq
Congrats to the US under-19 men’s lacrosse team, which won the world championship today with a 10-8 win over Canada.
It was great to see the lax community get behind the Iroquois Nationals, who had a great run, beating the US in pool play and finishing third in the tournament. It is, after all, their game, and their gift to us.
Raven
Zat is not my dog!
Baud
There is no dog. We’ve been had.
Omnes Omnibus
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Well, that is easily remedied.
Randy P
A little geekiness. I peeked into your HTML (sorry if that’s a little too personal) and found this where the link to the dog was probably intended to be:
webkit-fake-url://56DF9F3D-E8D6-49F9-BB1C-945029735910/imagejpeg
I’m reasonably sure that something beginning with “webkit-fake-url” is just a placeholder. Check your hyperlink.
Violet
Who let his dog out? Who? Who?
Beauzeaux
Here are my TWO dogs. Twice as cute.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Omnes Omnibus: True dat, and here’s my baby twins, who are now twice that size but evading camera capture. I have Mr. Q instructed to keep his ready at hand whilst I’m at the office. Lest they get too big to cuddle.
Apologies to all who’ve had to look at them before, but they’re so cute when they’re wee. I’m off giggling at the twitter rules linked in Dorito’s thread.
Omnes Omnibus
@Violet: Win. I did imagine it in Romney-voice.
Amir Khalid
But seriously, maybe you could post the picture of your no doubt very handsome dog.
Omnes Omnibus
This new dude lacks technical skills. What a cudlip.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Omnes Omnibus: You are in serious danger of calling trouble. That’s the second mention of the “c” word I’ve seen you make in as many days. Caution, please.
phantomist
This doesn’t have anything to with a dyslexic atheist, does it?
Omnes Omnibus
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): I was reminded of the word and I realized it missed it.
Josie
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Do you suppose it works the same way as Beetle Juice?
Omnes Omnibus
@Josie: I can try it again and see what happens. What do you say? Shall I give it a shot?
Josie
@Omnes Omnibus: Well, things have been a little slow lately, what with DougJ and all his alter egos on vacation.
schrodinger's cat
Invisible dog is invisible.
Gex
Trying to figure out why my girlfriend thinks her new buddy is such a great guy. He both agrees that we should raise taxes to buy the Vikings a new stadium AND that jobless people should not be allowed to smoke cigarettes or drink a beer ever. He did ask for extra credit as a straight white Christian guy because, hey, he doesn’t hate gay, brown, atheist, women. So therefore I am supposed to just grant him that he is right that poor people should just huddle in corners, be miserable, and die. Just not too fast or they don’t provide downward pressure on wages and inflation and then our spending power diminishes. Die slow, assholes!
So that’s her new best buddy. Great guy.
ETA: He IS really nice to people who he doesn’t begrudge existence to.
Omnes Omnibus
@Josie: Cudlip, cudlip, cudlip.
Now we wait.
jeffreyw
Show us the dog or we choke these kittehs.
Villago Delenda Est
@Omnes Omnibus:
ROFLMAO
I was going to observe that to not have technical skills is to be not in danger of being labeled a nerd, or something like that.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Gex: Kinda scary, and sadly typical of so many who see themselves as “great guys.”
Villago Delenda Est
@schrodinger’s cat:
This reminds me of something that was quite popular in World of Warcraft about two years ago.
“If Arthas’ mount is Invincible, how come we can see it?”
dance around in your bones
Is this dog in a box by any chance? How will we know if it is alive or dead?
ETA: Naturally, too late by several posts. Damn, this is a tough crowd.
JGabriel
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Bernard Finel @ Top:
Is that a command or a personal admission?
.
jwb
@Omnes Omnibus: so whatever happened to she who shall not be named? Did John ban her or did she get bored?
Steeplejack
Now the front paqe is funked up (recent posts and comments at the bottom). Bernard, are you twiddling the Balloon Juice dials? This just started when you came on the scene.
Omnes Omnibus
@jwb: I think she got banned and has not found a new incarnation. Or the police finally took her into custody. Sometimes, I miss the crazy little weirdo.
Frankensteinbeck
@Omnes Omnibus:
No. We’ve had entire discussions of the Middle East without my being informed that Muslims are better than Christians because they can’t be proselytized because Muslims are better than Christians. I haven’t heard evolution misrepresented or made up jargon presented as if they were scientific theories in ages. I threw away my blood pressure medication. For Celestia’s sake, don’t release the Kraken!
DMN
“When students are taught they are no different from animals, they act like it.”
Rick Warren, yesterday.
Josie
@Omnes Omnibus: Now you’ve gone and done it. It’s always dangerous to play with magic.
Omnes Omnibus
@Frankensteinbeck: Sorry, it may be too late. Actually, she does seem to be gone, and really gone, this time.
schrodinger's cat
Invisible dog has become visible. Cute but not as fluffy as Tunch.
BGinCHI
Dog pic now posted.
It’s a nice dog, but I don’t know that it was worth the build-up.
Now, if it was juggling….
wobblybits
Squee….puppeh!
wobblybits
Squee….puppeh!
Bernard Finel
@BGinCHI: I’ll bet you $10,000 my dog can beat your dog in a race.
PurpleGirl
A fine, handsome dog.
(Earlier posters… lol.)
jwb
@Omnes Omnibus: Thanks for the info. I miss her sometimes as well, as she was always one of the more entertaining trolls. But she really did not know when to stop.
kideni
Good doggie! He wants to have a talk with you before you go out that door.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@jeffreyw: ZOMG kittehs! Will they save us from what Omnes nay have unleashed? If not, they are still adorable. Puppehs next, plz?
Elegant invisible dog, now out of box. Seems a few pounds shy of Tunch though.
Wazmo
Now this is something you don’t see everyday: gorilla youngsters dismantling traps set to capture them.
gbear
Romney is buying twitter followers at a rate of about 2 per second. Imagine that…
Best comment on the LGF thread so far: “Mitt Romney: Twitter bots are people too, my friend.”
wrb
@Frankensteinbeck:
Yes, that certain magic is gone.
Wazmo
Now trending on Twitter: #IstandWithBachmann.
Hilarity ensues.
Raven
@jeffreyw: I figured you were chokin your chicken today!
jwb
@gbear: This was my favorite quip about it.
dance around in your bones
I think that folks get nostalgic about certain trolls until they come back, at which point you remember why you loathed them so much.
I must say m_c coined a few good words, tho.
BOB was just quirky/weird and sometimes really racist.
mclaren vacillates between once in a while spot on but most of the time wall of text tl;dr.
I should shut up now, I guess.
Oh wait – who misses the UNLIMITED CORPORATE CASH dude?
jwb
@dance around in your bones: VICTORY!
Frankensteinbeck
@dance around in your bones:
Mclaren’s sentiments are fine and liberal, he/she/it just accepts whatever the craziest, most awful sounding rumor is that’s going around as true. Garbage in, garbage out. If you accept that we’re stuck in ‘3-4 permanent, unwinnable wars’ then the rant based around that made-up fact was reasonable.
dance around in your bones
@jwb:
Heh. Where is thy VICTORY now??
Strangely absent. Too bad, so sad.
jeffreyw
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Geese come in gaggles, puppies come in giggles. Here are Tee and Hee.
Yutsano
PUPPEH!!
@dance around in your bones: My favourite thing about m_c was how she just couldn’t tolerate a non-Muslim actually knowing a wee bit about the Middle East and Islam. Then she’d get even more incorrect. It was kinda fun.
dance around in your bones
@Frankensteinbeck:
I agree, but most often when I see a mclaren comment I think of this gif.
jwb
@dance around in your bones: I’ve noticed a lack of strong trolling in these parts recently. Makes me wonder if the wingnut machine is low on cash or something and so not paying for the trolling. CAZ made an appearance last night, but in general not as much as usual. Maybe conservatives have reallocated resources to buying twitter followers for Mittbot.
dance around in your bones
@Yutsano:
Oh Holy Ramen, I know. Nothing like the fervor of a convert.
ETA: excuse-moi!! A “revert” !
jwb
@gbear: Romney’s campaign denies buying twitter followers. Ha, ha.
Violet
Your dog is cute. He looks quite serene. I imagine he’s not quite as serene if someone walks through that door.
Kathy
Does the Dog formerly known as invisible have a name? Or a twitter feed?
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@jeffreyw: WANT
jwb
Something’s afoot in the Murdoch empire.
dance around in your bones
@jwb:
Yeah, I’ve been kinda hungry for pie lately.
It’s weird, there are certain people that I simply have to pie for my own sanity and others that I just automatically skip over when I see their names – like CAZ. I just scroll on by when I see his(her/it’s) name but have never felt the urge to pie him(her/it).
Comrade Mary
DOG! Very cute, indeed. Also, dignified, so he obviously doesn’t belong here. Shoo, noble beast! Shoo!
jwb
@dance around in your bones: Speaking of the pie filter, I don’t think I’ve seen cleek around these parts much lately either.
Jebediah
@Yutsano:
I think my “favorite” thing was when she would take the time to explicitly tell someone “I am calling you stupid” or sme variation thereof.
The endless jargon/acronymia was something, too. IMO it was unparodizable.
dance around in your bones
@jwb:
I know….despite his invaluable contribution to blog societystan, he is scarce.
BTW, if you have any cool pie filter text you can submit it here.
However, I note the last submission was in 2011, so perhaps I am sadly behind the times. Or cleek is sick of us.
BGinCHI
@Bernard Finel: I’d just buy a greyhound for $500 and then beat you.
Easy money, dude.
rikyrah
nice dog pic.
not creepy pic.
thanks
JGabriel
Dog looks frowny and authoritarian, as if, looking upon you, he thinks you’re simultaneously beneath his notice and a danger to whatever he’s guarding.
But in a cute way.
.
JenJen
I’m already following you on Twitter, and I have no difficulty admitting your dog is cute.
Jebediah
Lovely dog, too, by the way. I tried to edit my earlier comment to say so but FYWP et it. I am glad you let him take off his Cloak of Invisibility.
red dog
That pale dog in the doorway is the ghost of trolls past. I wonder if that doggy smell is all that’s left?
maya
Labs are the tops. yellow ones score extra points. Chocolate labs are more expensive, but, I had a white chocolate lab once and he was free. Best dog ever.