I think she needs a sweater. She looks chilly. Maybe something seasonal?
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Belafon
@dmsilev: Not sure. 228 comments in the NSA thread seems light. Maybe we can make this one longer by arguing about whether this site needs an automated systems for displaying posts so they don’t show up right on top of each other.
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Betty Cracker
My dogs crap bigger than that.
10.
NotMax
Was cooking up something Chinese-ish yesterday.
Why doesn’t oyster sauce come in a squeeze bottle? I can accept no jet packs, but it’s the 21st century, dagnabbit.
11.
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: Oddly, we are on the same side in this one.
12.
Citizen_X
@Betty Cracker: And this is supposed to be a good thing?
@raven: You saw him in the SEC; I hadn’t seen that much of him before he got to GB. I am really impressed.
17.
BGinCHI
Obviously your dog is in the tank for Big Poodle, sooner.
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raven
@Omnes Omnibus: Yea and I knew Cobb was going to be special too.
eta I also am not surprised to see what Jeffries is doing.
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Botsplainer
I slipped on ice yesterday, hitting my head and doing something shitty to my knee, so that’s fun. Tonight, I let my wife and youngest go to the gym; I’ve started the fruitcakes. Using great grandmothers recipe – she was born in the 1890s, IIRC.
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Omnes Omnibus
@raven: We missed Cobb this year. And I would bet that Marshall and Jeffries lead to GB drafting a least one big CB.
There may well be fruitcakes made in the 1890s still being passed back and forth.
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PurpleGirl
@Botsplainer: Sorry to hear about your fall. I hope the head hit didn’t cause any damage and hope your knee feels better soon. (Dr. Atkins (of diet fame) died from a head injury when he fell on an icy patch outside the building where he had his office.)
During the 13 hour odyssey of my mom’s biopsy, reporting via phone from my sister went unanswered at one point because my dogs have been eating a sweet potato chicken grain-free blend that requires airing off every 180 minutes.
Seriously, I’m concerned that my house is going to be blown off the map by gaseous emissions from the Dane, with an assist from the poodle mix, while I’m trying to get the stove to light and pick up my land line.
Good news is, I’ve lost some weight on their new diet, since they must walk at least around the block while outgassing.
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PurpleGirl
Sooner — the doggy is cute. I don’t think he needs grooming just yet, he’s cute with the fuzzy floofy pelt. Give him some scritches for me.
ETA: I’m staying away from the NSA thread. My blood pressure doesn’t need the aggravation.
Mine just got groomed yesterday. I love how she smells when she comes back and is so soft and cuddly. The groomer uses some expensive shampoo that I refuse to buy. Yesterday the groomer sent her home with the cutest pink bow that I removed immediately because I knew she couldn’t stand it any longer.
There may well be fruitcakes made in the 1890s still being passed back and forth.
Funny that you mention that. I took the last of our fruitcakes from last year into the office this week to snack on in front of my assistant. It was awesome – fruit and bourbon melded into a seamless whole, her looking on in horror…
Lil Bit went for her annual “wellness” checkup today. Counting her meds for her anemia, eyes and flea for the both of them it came in at a cool $650. Money pits they is!
nce 1995, Manitou Springs, Colorado, has hosted the Great Fruitcake Toss on the first Saturday of every January. “We encourage the use of recycled fruitcakes,” says Leslie Lewis of the Manitou Springs Chamber of Commerce. The all-time Great Fruitcake Toss record is 1,420 feet, set in January 2007 by a group of eight Boeing engineers who built the “Omega 380,” a mock artillery piece fueled by compressed air pumped by an exercise bike.[
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David in NY
That dog, or its twin, lives in my apartment building.
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BGinCHI
@Omnes Omnibus: I would never have thought of you as a fruitcake guy.
Before the interstate was completed, remember the multitudinous Claxton billboards while driving to and from Florida.
Those, and the ones for South of the Border.
43.
IowaOldLady
The Sooner Dog looks like a teddy bear.
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MomSense
My dog slipped on the ice two nights ago and is still really lame. I think he is just really sore but if he doesn’t improve tomorrow, I’ll have to take him to the vet. I’m dealing with a sinus infection that will not stop and it is sooooo cold outside. I tried to do some Christmas shopping but it was too much for me. I’m thinking tea, nyquil and a movie is about all I can handle.
@Soonergrunt
I’ve always been a big dog person but your little puppy could make me a convert. Adorable and such a sweet expression on her face. Don’t have her groomed, she’s perfect.
45.
raven
@NotMax: My grandfather sent me one years before I moved to Georgia.
“On December 10, 1984, a meteorite fell in Claxton and hit a mailbox.[13] The mailbox sold for $83,000 because it is said that it is the only meteorite to have struck a mailbox.[14] The meteorite is also classified as an L6 meteorite.”
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David in NY
We do a steamed bread pudding in our family. Rum or bourbon or something inside. Grandma used to make a lemon sauce to go on it, but I make a hard sauce (sugar + butter) to melt on it. Beats fruitcake all to heck.
47.
Omnes Omnibus
@David in NY: I would (almost) literally kill for that.
God, I’m not the only one that remembers that? Too damn many olds. Could probably save social security by … oh, never mind.
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Omnes Omnibus
I really cannot stand Calvin Johnson.
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David in NY
@Omnes Omnibus: You know, my brother inherited the recipe, and he’s seven years older than I, which makes him genuinely old. I better get a copy, fast.
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Ruckus
@Botsplainer:
Must be a whole generation older than you. My grandparents were all born starting in 1890.
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raven
@David in NY: I drove 66 from Chicago to LA numerous times when the only 4 laner was the Will Rogers Turnpike. Ditto 41 from Chicago to Miami where the superslab was the Sunshine State Parkway that started in Yee Haw Junction. On 66 we’d wait and cross the desert at night and had those old canvas water bags you hung on the front of the car.
eta There was a gas station at Suwanee that had pictures of hundreds of wrecks that happened on the downhill run to Chattanooga.
@Ruckus: My grandparents were born in the 1870’s (maybe 186_) for maternal grandpa I never knew. We stretch the generations out. Great Grandpa born 1825, Great-great, 1799.
Cute dog, thanks for pet pic. Looks like it needs a hug.
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David in NY
@efgoldman: @raven: We came East from Michigan two or three times when I was a kid, and drove South to New Orleans once. All two lane stuff, except I think the Pennsylvania Turnpike had been built sometime n there. And God, I remember coming back up from the South through Kentucky or Tennessee behind some car going real slow up the hills and fast down, so you couldn’t pass — took forever.
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Omnes Omnibus
@BGinCHI: What do they have in common? In addition, I simply like Christmas. And many of its traditional trappings.
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Poopyman
@efgoldman: Aberdeen is now a suburb of Baltimore. Hell, York PA is now a suburb of Balmer.
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David in NY
@efgoldman: Interesting to have heard stories of the days before electricity and the telephone, or when the first car came to town. But particularly, I think people who haven’t heard first-hand stories about the Great Depression don’t quite understand why we have things like Social Security. My grandmother and grandfather were midwest sort of rich and went entirely broke, but the stories she told me were about men coming to the back door of their big house after dinner to beg food. Never heard any pity for herself, but a fair amount of concern for others.
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raven
@David in NY: My grandparents live close to the RR tracks in the Chicago area during the depression and I guess the “gentlemen of the road” had signs they left to indicate that my granny fed folks.
@Botsplainer: Ouch. I hope you’re not still feeling the effects of the fall.
Took Phoebe the World’s Most Affectionate Cat for a second opinion on her renal insufficiency diagnosis. Definitive test results tomorrow; preliminary results tonight are, as the vet said, “encouraging.”
@raven: Not yet. I went to another local vet. If these results contradict the results from her regular vet, maybe I’ll go that route — if Phoebe doesn’t puke herself inside out from the car ride.
I went to the vet school with my ferrets, though, a few years back. Lots of memories of fear followed by good news followed by more fear followed by iffy news followed, ultimately, by intense sadness.
@Karen in GA: When Raven got cancer our vet, Mars Hill, sent us to Auburn. He’s a UGA grad but he felt they were better equipped for his specific condition.
Back in the ’60s, every Christmas break, my father piled our large family into two Ford LTD Country Squires and headed on down to Florida. The two cars would keep in touch with Radio Shack walkie-talkies. The main interstate I-75, was still being built in southern Kentucky, parts of Tennessee, and parts of Georgia. It was a many miles long single lane of cars, trucks, RVs, tractors, and everything else on wheels. When I think about it, my parents were insane to do that for us kids. We did not appreciate the toll and for sure we didn’t deserve it.
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Ruckus
@David in NY:
There are a number of generations represented on this blog. A number of us are in our mid 60’s, have heard of a couple in mid 70’s, I wonder what the age range/average age is?
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Ruckus
@efgoldman:
No kidding.
Learned early that no one has all the answers but sometimes someone new comes along and adds just enough something to the process to make it much more interesting.
Also I worked with a lot of people who were half my age, some of whom had higher positions than me. Many thought that I would not be able to work for youngsters. They were all wrong.
But now as I move into being considered actually old (got called gramps twice in the same week by two wildly different groups/wildly different places) I find that it is harder to connect with the young. Not impossible, just a bit harder.
And if you were going east-west, it was Wall Drug.
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burnspbesq
My dad, who graduated from college in 1954, worked summers on a surveying crew laying out the route of the New York State Thruway. I dimly remember taking Route 9 to get to my grandparents’ house when I was very young, because the Northway didn’t exist yet.
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dmsilev
Three threads posted in four minutes. Is that a record?
ruemara
She needs no grooming. She needs pettings, snorgling, treats and a tummy rub. God, I miss my boys.
kc
Aw, what a cute pup!
Cassidy
You make it sound so tawdry. Poking stupid people is fun.
schrodinger's cat
She has a cute, what a sweetie.
raven
Sweet pupster.
Go Ravens!
Mnemosyne
I think she needs a sweater. She looks chilly. Maybe something seasonal?
Belafon
@dmsilev: Not sure. 228 comments in the NSA thread seems light. Maybe we can make this one longer by arguing about whether this site needs an automated systems for displaying posts so they don’t show up right on top of each other.
Betty Cracker
My dogs crap bigger than that.
NotMax
Was cooking up something Chinese-ish yesterday.
Why doesn’t oyster sauce come in a squeeze bottle? I can accept no jet packs, but it’s the 21st century, dagnabbit.
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: Oddly, we are on the same side in this one.
Citizen_X
@Betty Cracker: And this is supposed to be a good thing?
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: Need a race in the black and blue!
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: Yep. It’ll come down to the final week.
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: Fucking Lacey is a beast.
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: You saw him in the SEC; I hadn’t seen that much of him before he got to GB. I am really impressed.
BGinCHI
Obviously your dog is in the tank for Big Poodle, sooner.
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: Yea and I knew Cobb was going to be special too.
eta I also am not surprised to see what Jeffries is doing.
Botsplainer
I slipped on ice yesterday, hitting my head and doing something shitty to my knee, so that’s fun. Tonight, I let my wife and youngest go to the gym; I’ve started the fruitcakes. Using great grandmothers recipe – she was born in the 1890s, IIRC.
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: We missed Cobb this year. And I would bet that Marshall and Jeffries lead to GB drafting a least one big CB.
NotMax
@Botsplainer
There may well be fruitcakes made in the 1890s still being passed back and forth.
PurpleGirl
@Botsplainer: Sorry to hear about your fall. I hope the head hit didn’t cause any damage and hope your knee feels better soon. (Dr. Atkins (of diet fame) died from a head injury when he fell on an icy patch outside the building where he had his office.)
PhoenixRising
During the 13 hour odyssey of my mom’s biopsy, reporting via phone from my sister went unanswered at one point because my dogs have been eating a sweet potato chicken grain-free blend that requires airing off every 180 minutes.
Seriously, I’m concerned that my house is going to be blown off the map by gaseous emissions from the Dane, with an assist from the poodle mix, while I’m trying to get the stove to light and pick up my land line.
Good news is, I’ve lost some weight on their new diet, since they must walk at least around the block while outgassing.
PurpleGirl
Sooner — the doggy is cute. I don’t think he needs grooming just yet, he’s cute with the fuzzy floofy pelt. Give him some scritches for me.
ETA: I’m staying away from the NSA thread. My blood pressure doesn’t need the aggravation.
NotMax
@Botsplainer
Ouchie.
Sheridan Whiteside is not a role model.
YellowJournalism
Mine just got groomed yesterday. I love how she smells when she comes back and is so soft and cuddly. The groomer uses some expensive shampoo that I refuse to buy. Yesterday the groomer sent her home with the cutest pink bow that I removed immediately because I knew she couldn’t stand it any longer.
JoyceH
Dog blogging? I just updated my blog with a lot of new pictures of my pup.
http://joyceharmon.wordpress.com/2013/12/16/catching-up/
raven
@JoyceH: What a doll.
Botsplainer
@NotMax:
Funny that you mention that. I took the last of our fruitcakes from last year into the office this week to snack on in front of my assistant. It was awesome – fruit and bourbon melded into a seamless whole, her looking on in horror…
Omnes Omnibus
@Botsplainer: Fruitcake requires brandy and rum.
raven
Lil Bit went for her annual “wellness” checkup today. Counting her meds for her anemia, eyes and flea for the both of them it came in at a cool $650. Money pits they is!
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: Not the famous Claxton Fruitcakes.
Soonergrunt
@Mnemosyne: If we put a sweater on this dog, her tail drops, her head lowers, and she mopes around till we take it off her.
raven
@Soonergrunt: She’s so sweet.
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: My fruitcake making ancestors were from New England. It probably accounts for the difference.
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: Yup
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: Time on target!
David in NY
That dog, or its twin, lives in my apartment building.
BGinCHI
@Omnes Omnibus: I would never have thought of you as a fruitcake guy.
Omnes Omnibus
@BGinCHI: I also like rum cakes.
Soonergrunt
@JoyceH: what a pretty dog!
NotMax
@raven
Before the interstate was completed, remember the multitudinous Claxton billboards while driving to and from Florida.
Those, and the ones for South of the Border.
IowaOldLady
The Sooner Dog looks like a teddy bear.
MomSense
My dog slipped on the ice two nights ago and is still really lame. I think he is just really sore but if he doesn’t improve tomorrow, I’ll have to take him to the vet. I’m dealing with a sinus infection that will not stop and it is sooooo cold outside. I tried to do some Christmas shopping but it was too much for me. I’m thinking tea, nyquil and a movie is about all I can handle.
@Soonergrunt
I’ve always been a big dog person but your little puppy could make me a convert. Adorable and such a sweet expression on her face. Don’t have her groomed, she’s perfect.
raven
@NotMax: My grandfather sent me one years before I moved to Georgia.
“On December 10, 1984, a meteorite fell in Claxton and hit a mailbox.[13] The mailbox sold for $83,000 because it is said that it is the only meteorite to have struck a mailbox.[14] The meteorite is also classified as an L6 meteorite.”
David in NY
We do a steamed bread pudding in our family. Rum or bourbon or something inside. Grandma used to make a lemon sauce to go on it, but I make a hard sauce (sugar + butter) to melt on it. Beats fruitcake all to heck.
Omnes Omnibus
@David in NY: I would (almost) literally kill for that.
David in NY
@NotMax: “before the interstate”
God, I’m not the only one that remembers that? Too damn many olds. Could probably save social security by … oh, never mind.
Omnes Omnibus
I really cannot stand Calvin Johnson.
David in NY
@Omnes Omnibus: You know, my brother inherited the recipe, and he’s seven years older than I, which makes him genuinely old. I better get a copy, fast.
Ruckus
@Botsplainer:
Must be a whole generation older than you. My grandparents were all born starting in 1890.
raven
@David in NY: I drove 66 from Chicago to LA numerous times when the only 4 laner was the Will Rogers Turnpike. Ditto 41 from Chicago to Miami where the superslab was the Sunshine State Parkway that started in Yee Haw Junction. On 66 we’d wait and cross the desert at night and had those old canvas water bags you hung on the front of the car.
eta There was a gas station at Suwanee that had pictures of hundreds of wrecks that happened on the downhill run to Chattanooga.
Omnes Omnibus
@David in NY: I am also a fan of Indian pudding.
raven
@efgoldman: say wha
David in NY
@Ruckus: My grandparents were born in the 1870’s (maybe 186_) for maternal grandpa I never knew. We stretch the generations out. Great Grandpa born 1825, Great-great, 1799.
schrodinger's cat
@Omnes Omnibus: I love those! Also too, bread puddings.
raven
The gas station was at Monteagle, Sewanee is just up the road.
BGinCHI
@Omnes Omnibus: That’s more understandable.
jl
Cute dog, thanks for pet pic. Looks like it needs a hug.
David in NY
@efgoldman: @raven: We came East from Michigan two or three times when I was a kid, and drove South to New Orleans once. All two lane stuff, except I think the Pennsylvania Turnpike had been built sometime n there. And God, I remember coming back up from the South through Kentucky or Tennessee behind some car going real slow up the hills and fast down, so you couldn’t pass — took forever.
Omnes Omnibus
@BGinCHI: What do they have in common? In addition, I simply like Christmas. And many of its traditional trappings.
Poopyman
@efgoldman: Aberdeen is now a suburb of Baltimore. Hell, York PA is now a suburb of Balmer.
David in NY
@efgoldman: Interesting to have heard stories of the days before electricity and the telephone, or when the first car came to town. But particularly, I think people who haven’t heard first-hand stories about the Great Depression don’t quite understand why we have things like Social Security. My grandmother and grandfather were midwest sort of rich and went entirely broke, but the stories she told me were about men coming to the back door of their big house after dinner to beg food. Never heard any pity for herself, but a fair amount of concern for others.
raven
@David in NY: My grandparents live close to the RR tracks in the Chicago area during the depression and I guess the “gentlemen of the road” had signs they left to indicate that my granny fed folks.
Karen in GA
@Botsplainer: Ouch. I hope you’re not still feeling the effects of the fall.
Took Phoebe the World’s Most Affectionate Cat for a second opinion on her renal insufficiency diagnosis. Definitive test results tomorrow; preliminary results tonight are, as the vet said, “encouraging.”
raven
@Karen in GA: Fingers crossed. Did you go to the vet school?
khead
@efgoldman:
I doubt 40 has changed all that much. Aberdeen has exploded.
schrodinger's cat
Thread needs more cute, I present the Lawrence of Purrabia
Karen in GA
@raven: Not yet. I went to another local vet. If these results contradict the results from her regular vet, maybe I’ll go that route — if Phoebe doesn’t puke herself inside out from the car ride.
I went to the vet school with my ferrets, though, a few years back. Lots of memories of fear followed by good news followed by more fear followed by iffy news followed, ultimately, by intense sadness.
raven
@Karen in GA: When Raven got cancer our vet, Mars Hill, sent us to Auburn. He’s a UGA grad but he felt they were better equipped for his specific condition.
Karen in GA
Iggy, undignified.
Karen in GA
@raven: Yikes. I hope it doesn’t come to that with Phoebe (but if it does, I’ll make the trip). Was your vet right that Auburn better for Raven?
Karen in GA
@efgoldman: He was too busy afterwards nomming on the lamb treats we got for him when we got the hat and collar. We knew he’d deserve them.
geg6
That is one damn cute doggie. And she knows it.
James E. Powell
@David in NY: @efgoldman:
Back in the ’60s, every Christmas break, my father piled our large family into two Ford LTD Country Squires and headed on down to Florida. The two cars would keep in touch with Radio Shack walkie-talkies. The main interstate I-75, was still being built in southern Kentucky, parts of Tennessee, and parts of Georgia. It was a many miles long single lane of cars, trucks, RVs, tractors, and everything else on wheels. When I think about it, my parents were insane to do that for us kids. We did not appreciate the toll and for sure we didn’t deserve it.
Ruckus
@David in NY:
There are a number of generations represented on this blog. A number of us are in our mid 60’s, have heard of a couple in mid 70’s, I wonder what the age range/average age is?
Ruckus
@efgoldman:
No kidding.
Learned early that no one has all the answers but sometimes someone new comes along and adds just enough something to the process to make it much more interesting.
Also I worked with a lot of people who were half my age, some of whom had higher positions than me. Many thought that I would not be able to work for youngsters. They were all wrong.
But now as I move into being considered actually old (got called gramps twice in the same week by two wildly different groups/wildly different places) I find that it is harder to connect with the young. Not impossible, just a bit harder.
burnspbesq
@NotMax:
And if you were going east-west, it was Wall Drug.
burnspbesq
My dad, who graduated from college in 1954, worked summers on a surveying crew laying out the route of the New York State Thruway. I dimly remember taking Route 9 to get to my grandparents’ house when I was very young, because the Northway didn’t exist yet.