Everyone say hi to Xubi!
Xubi, which is short for her full name Exuberance, is my carpenter/handyman’s border collie, and she’s such an awesome dog I just thought I would write about her a bit. Every day when I go over to the new house, Xubi is there to greet me. She’s another rescue- Dean found her half starved, and she adopted him, and they get along likes peas and carrots.
She’s a bit of a mystery girl. She was trained, because Dean (her dad and BFF) is always finding new things she can do. She can sit, lie down, I discovered she will give you her paw, and if you stick your arm out with your elbow to your side, she will stand up and put her paws on your arm instead of jumping on you.
She likes balls, frisbees, treats, chew toys, long car rides, barking at cows, horses, and deer, and is generally a sweet girl. She’s also a real trooper when it comes to home renovation, and will stay there all day long without complaint. Last week she went on a long ride with me and then I took her home and gave her a good bath, because a lady needs a good day at the spa after several weeks of rolling around in sawdust. She was very well behaved and likes having in between her toes cleaned.
She’s a very good doggie, and I am sure would love you very much. In fact, let’s call today Xubi appreciation day, because she deserves it!
NR
Very nice!
Это курам на смех
Thanks, Obama.
rikyrah
She is lovely ????
Villago Delenda Est
Xubi sounds like one heck of a dog!
Major Major Major Major
Wow, this thread died early.
Baud
Godless liberals are taking the Christ out of Christubi
Mnemosyne
I took Keaton and Charlotte to the Cat House the morning to get their nails trimmed while the cleaning people did their thing. Today’s groomer wrapped Keaton up in a blanket burrito-style, which Keaton seems to feel injured his Dignity. Because cats are all about their Dignity, especially if you catch then looking foolish.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
Is there any local media response (editorials) in North Carolina to the latest Republican assholery? I’m in CA and don’t have TV, and I haven’t encountered much online. Is the media recognizing the utter lack of honor among those vile people (most of whom, I’m guessing, are aged white church-goin’ males)?
Botsplainer
Was it mean of me to want to heckle the carolers singing in the sporting apparel store? It wasn’t that they were bad, it was they were dragging Jesus shit into it.
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: Obama’s Christubi card just had pictures of lots of different happy dogs on it!
Humdog
Likes to be washed between the toes?
My Peanut likes to lay down flat when I bathe her. I suppose she gets a good soak but it makes it hard to scrub her belly and legs. Silly Nut!
MomSense
Aww Xubi is a gorgeous girl.
MomSense
@Botsplainer:
I have nothing against Jesus. It’s the people who ignore every one of his teachings in his name who I find deplorable.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: That would be the best card ever.
Yoda Dog
@West of the Rockies (been a while): Im here in Raleigh.
Short answer: NOPE!
Longer form: It is being covered extensively but the necessary outrage is conspicuously and consistently missing in action, IMO.
Yoda Dog
Xubi looks cool as shit. What a great name for a dog.
Mnemosyne
@Yoda Dog:
“Just win, baby,” has been the Republican motto since at least 2000. At this point, I suspect that the thrill of getting away with openly cheating is half the reason they do it. They’re like teenagers trying to figure out where Mom and Dad’s boundaries are, only to discover that there are no boundaries and they can get away with anything.
Gravenstone
First thought on seeing the post and initial sentence – Cole adopted another one! Thanks for sharing Xubi.
Botsplainer
They came into the big assed “Warehouse of Wine and Everything That Can Be Guzzled in Order to Make Christmas Tolerable” and got run out.
BillinGlendaleCA
I was just concerned about the possibility of John using that staple gun.
Yoda Dog
@Mnemosyne: It is fucking chilling to watch them pull this shit up close. And they’re getting away with it.
HeleninEire
@MomSense: Answered you last thread. Sorry for the delay. Was walking home. You can go back as far as your grandparents, but your parents (born in the USA) had to have done it. So, your parent becomes a citizen via their parents, and then you become a citizen via your parents.
That said, there is a thing called “registering your foreign birth in Ireland” that allows you to skip the requirement that your parents did it. I don’t know much about that but I think it is a way around the rule that your parents had to do it.
Jack the Cold Warrior
@West of the Rockies (been a while): oh my yes, the decent progressive newspapers are all over this unholy crap the R legislature is pulling. NC is NOT a crazy Deep South state like AL or MS. We have many islands of Deep Blue, Raleigh Durham Chapel Hill, the research Triangle, Charlotte, Asheville, even my small college town of Salisbury.
But the loss of so many manufacturing jobs/factories in the late 90’s and 00’s have hurt wide swaths of the semi-rural parts of the state, that, plus radical gerrymandering has tilted the Legislature intensely R. And these guys are bastards.
Here’s a good example of the editorializing:
http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/editorials/article121213498.html
Emma
What a gorgeous girl!
SiubhanDuinne
@Gravenstone:
Me too! And I’m sure we weren’t the only ones!
raven
Arf!
Botsplainer
@MomSense:
I’m done with Jesus. As a deity, It is a fucking asshole; as a philosopher, clearly his discipline isn’t, given the bastardization.
SiubhanDuinne
@BillinGlendaleCA:
My mother once managed to staple her nipple to a door while she was installing a new screen. One can only imagine what Johnbits might get in the way.
HeleninEire
@SiubhanDuinne: No. Way. Oh. My. God.
raven
@HeleninEire: I guess I’m too far gone?
Gin & Tonic
@SiubhanDuinne: A story you didn’t absolutely need to share with us.
HRA
Xubi is an amazing name for an amazing dog.
I have an amazing Tiki a mixed Shih-Tzu. He is not my 1st dog ever. He is very different in that once in a very great while he garbles as if he is trying to speak and you can tell he is complaining. Also I do talk to him and he listens intently. Anyone ever have a like experience with their pet?
Mike in NC
@Jack the Cold Warrior: This latest round of NCGOP assholery will definitely be fought in the courts by Governor Cooper and Atty Gen Stein (who was attacked during the election as basically being the liberal son of a rich Jew).
BillinGlendaleCA
@SiubhanDuinne:
Ouch! I kind of know how that feels.
HeleninEire
@raven: Prolly. Besides, you love where you are. Especially since the MuthaFking house extension is finally done. You’re gonna leave that? I don’t think so!
lamh36
Open thread…okay then..
“A MAN WITH A GUN TRIED TO ROB A SEX TOY SHOP AND THE EMPLOYEES THREW DILDOS AT HIM AND THERE’S VIDEO MERRY CHRISTMAS”
Oh my…??
raven
@HeleninEire: Especially with the reverse mortgage we took! It’s basically a “we’re a stayin”! My bride and her friend are decorating so I’m watching football in the addition and watching the varmints jump from tree-to-tree. Our windows look right into the tops of some tall pines so it’s a fun view.
lamh36
My uncle turned my aunt’s “family room” into his own man cave…complete with 2 pics of the Obama family of course!??????
Man Cave
lamh36
Sitting here washing clothes at my auntie house and bout to tear into these white beans she made??
#SoulFood
raven
Ooops, too big! Maybe this is better
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/521/30864906624_15e9354981_c.jpg
Damn, showing up huge on my machine, so much that you have to push it to the right to see all the windows!
Mary G
I saw the staple gun box and said, wow the floors are going in already! Xubi looks like a very good girl and it cracks me up that John gave her a bath. He is such a carer under that grumpy exterior.
rikyrah
@lamh36:
delicious ??
HeleninEire
@raven: Woulda been better without the foot; but AWESOME.
SiubhanDuinne
@Gin & Tonic:
I’ve actually shared it before and never got a reaction to the best of my recollection.
@HeleninEire:
She must have been in fairly severe pain, but when she called the doctor she was laughing so hard she could hardly describe what was wrong. She did get the absurdity of it!
Another Scott
@lamh36: Needs more Saints stuff.
;-D
Cheers,
Scott.
raven
@HeleninEire: Smaller?
SiubhanDuinne
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Do tell.
Yoda Dog
@lamh36: Nice! WHO DAT!?? OBAMA!!! Love it.
raven
@efgoldman: The make nice yuppy condos now.
FULTON COTTON MILL LOFTS
There is actually a project in the work to made loft out of a mill about 3 blocks away from us. I’m glad it’s separated by the RR Tracks with no crossover at our street.
jeffreyw
I was at Kroger the other day and walked by a group of employees getting some kind of a pep talk from a lady I’ve not seen in there before. Must be from corporate human resources. A few minutes later I pushed a cart by there again as she was winding down and she turned and greeted me with a big smile and asked was I stocking up for the Christmas celebrations. I told her we didn’t celebrate Christmas, in fact, I told her, I burned down a decorated tree that I thought was tacky. I said it was very satisfying but that the apartment management didn’t renew my lease so I was kinda of needing a place to stay and asked if she live around here?
EBT
@lamh36: Now you see why Texas banned sex toys. Us kinky liberals would be too well armed for them to ever fend off otherwise.
BillinGlendaleCA
@SiubhanDuinne: I have some piercings.
HeleninEire
@lamh36: There’s a sex shop right down the street from me. The advertise proudly “A shop for women run by women.” That shit used to be mega illegal here only 25 years ago. Amazing what the 1993 re-writing of the constitution did.
raven
@jeffreyw: Damn Bubba!
gogol's wife
So sweet. I love it when workmen bring their doggehs. When they were building our garage, this one carpenter got stuck in the breezeway leafing through the Balloon Juice calendar for half an hour.
JaneE
So how long after the bath did she roll in sawdust again?
Shell
Cole, you unrepentant old softie, you!
Another Scott
@jeffreyw: rofl. :-) Your Santa beard may have confused her.
:-D
Cheers,
Scott.
gogol's wife
@lamh36:
I’m coming over! That looks like a fun place to be.
gogol's wife
@raven:
That also looks like a fun place to be!
SiubhanDuinne
@BillinGlendaleCA:
You know, I never made the connection before, but it’s possible that my having witnessed my mother’s experience was a major subconscious factor in my needlephobia (which includes no piercings, not even for earrings).
raven
@gogol’s wife: Except it is 4pm and Lil Bit is trying to leap off the bed and go to the dog food bow. The bed is too high and I don’t want the stinker to get hurt so we’s a rasslin right now!
Van Buren
My dogs never look that alert unless I am holding meat just off the grill.
gogol's wife
@raven:
I finally had to barricade my cat out of the bedroom last night. It broke my heart, but he’s gotten so antsy at night that we can’t get any sleep.
debbie
@Yoda Dog:
No talk of a lawsuit?
Miss Bianca
@jeffreyw: What happened to the lady’s big smile as you embarked on this saga?
“You’re a mean one…Mr. Grinch…”
hovercraft
What an adorable dog, she looks very lively.
@SiubhanDuinne:
Was she drunk? I can’t imagine the pain, the embarrassment. As for our blog master, the possibilities are endless, toes stapled to the floor, fingers attached to banisters, it would be outlandish and an only John Cole could manage to do this story. That is why we love him, he brightens our days with his stories, and we can all say to ourselves thank god it was him and not me. Sorry John.
hovercraft
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Do tell, you can’t just leave that hanging out there, must have details.
@Gin & Tonic:
Obviously I disagree.
raven
@gogol’s wife: For a year Lil Bit would wait until we fell asleep and then scratch like mad so I’d give her her cookie(s) and then put her on the floor and she’d go to her doggie bed. All of the sudden she stopped scratching so she gets to stay. It’s really good except that she hurls abut once a week!
Brachiator
@Yoda Dog:
Will there be lawsuits?
I’ve said that nationally, the GOP acts as though they are the sole legitimate government of the United States. They seem to be pulling this same stunt in NC, the people be damned.
How close was the gubernatorial election? Has the reaction of average citizens been covered?
raven
@efgoldman: Bass Lofts in Little 5 in the ATL is the one I like. They converted an old school and left the markings and hoops from the gym in some of the units!
SiubhanDuinne
@hovercraft:
No, not at all. She was a heavy woman and had large, pendulous breasts. For reasons I don’t know, she wasn’t wearing a bra that day. Somehow her left breast got loose from her sundress while she was doing some kind of manoeuvre with her body and left arm to keep the screening taut against the door as she stapled with her right hand.
(In those days nobody in my family drank at home, except for a small sip of Cherry Heering or Kahlua on Christmas.)
MomSense
@SiubhanDuinne
Oh my!
raven
@SiubhanDuinne: OOO, “manoeuvre”!
Brachiator
@EBT:
There’s no right to bare arm restraints in Texas?
Central Planning
@BillinGlendaleCA: her nipple or stapling one to a door?
EBT
@hovercraft: It’s a gloriously intense half second followed by an endorphin rush you can swim in for a while. They stay sore for a few hours after.
@Brachiator: Well if you hunt, maybe you can have bear arm restraints.
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
My keyboard is set to UK/Canadian spelling. Sometimes I manually override it, sometimes I just go with the pomposity!
raven
@SiubhanDuinne: I think it’s swell!
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
?
raven
In more weather weirdness the temperature has been rising all day and will continue to do so throughout the night!
Iowa Old Lady
I am holding my hand up to cover my screen over any post that includes both “nipple” and “staple.”
liberal
Trump has picked a far right nutjob budget hawk to be his head of OMB.
Awesome. The resulting fiscal contraction will hasten the recession we’re overdue for.
It’s great to see him fucking himself so hard.
Main thing is we need to make the Republican scum own it so we can smash as many at the ballot box as possible.
raven
“The irony of it all, losing the Celebration Bowl because of an excessive celebration.”
SiubhanDuinne
@Iowa Old Lady:
You must hate the word “stipple.”
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne: Too afraid to google.
Chris T.
@Baud: No, no, no, you’ve got it wrong. It’s Godless conservatives taking the Christ out of ChristmaChrist!
hovercraft
@SiubhanDuinne:
That is so funny, note to self, do not staple sans bra, the explanation to the ER or doctor will be hysterical.
raven
@efgoldman: If they don’t play hard they have no business out there.
raven
@hovercraft: A bra ain’t stopping no staple.
Baud
@Chris T.:
Jingle Christ, Jingle Christ, Jingle all the way.
bjacques
Xubi doo! Or, in her (doggo) language, Rubi roo!
Patricia Kayden
Xubi is a sweetie pie. Too cute.
trollhattan
What a sweet doggy tale. Every border collie I’ve been around has been smart as a whip, but flighty and nippy. Xubi has the best of their traits without those other things–nice!
Aleta
@HeleninEire: I hope Ireland is magical for you right now. And thanks very much for the reference earlier. Very kind of you.
lamh36
@Another Scott: lol..my uncle loves his Saints and Lakers since as long as I’ve been alive his been a Lakers fan.
Along with the Steelers and the Yankees
OzarkHillbilly
For all those too freaked out over a little stapled nipple, I give you Scrotum Self Repair:
Snopes says TRUE.
J.
You should write personal ads for dogs, John Cole. Better yet, start a doggy matchmaking site. Now if we could only find a good name for it…. Suggestions, Balloon Juicers?
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@raven: That’s for sure but, ideally, it might corral the potential target out of the staple’s way.
How is the wrist of the Princess? She is not overdoing the decorating, I hope. An assistant sounds like a good plan is in operation.
Thanks for the news about Colburn. I’d forgotten how young they were. I’ll have to read The Things They Carried again. I was struck by how solemn Tim O’Brien is in person; he was a guest at our college fiction festival a few years after Going After Cacciato. Don DeLillo was also there, and he was quiet – but soft spoken as opposed to solemn. I don’t remember much about Donald Barthelme except I think he was the most personable of the bunch and kinda comical. We were so naive – we thought these were just “authors who’d come talk to a bunch of English majors and grad students.”
hovercraft
@raven:
True, but it will keep those pesky pendulous breasts where they belong, out of the way of staples.
ETA
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
Great minds think alike.
liberal
@efgoldman: no. But among the spectrum of right-wing douchebags it wasn’t exactly clear.
Watching him put the noose around his own neck is teh fucking awesome.
Another Scott
@Chris T.: Truth. :-)
The word Christ is too much like fnord to too many “Christians” these days. He and his name are invisible to them – so they have to keep screaming that he’s been “pushed out of America”, or something.
Cheers,
Scott.
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
True enough, but it would have kept her boob inside her dress instead of allowing it to cut loose from its moorings.
ETA: As Bella Q and hovercraft both noted.
SiubhanDuinne
@OzarkHillbilly:
Okay, that made my knees clench and I don’t have a scrotum.
Skepticat
@SiubhanDuinne: I’d be surprised if any of us had a different first thought–besides “Awwwww,” that is.
jeffreyw
@Miss Bianca: She faded out like the Cheshire Cat, there one second and then… gone.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@Baud:
Perfectly cromulent painting technique.
stinger
Hi, Xubi!
Frank Wilhoit
Every dog should be photographed next to a nail gun.
laura
Xubi Doobie Doo!
PaulWartenberg2016
Is Steve okay? Last I heard he disappeared into the night to hunt vampires or some such.
Gvg
@PaulWartenberg2016: turns out Steve was never missing. He just hadn’t felt like coming when called. He was in the house.
StringOnAStick
Border Collies tend to be self cleaning; I went on a river trip with one on an extremely muddy river and after she dried off, she was brilliant white. The rest of us were silty and smelly.
Jack the Cold Warrior
@Mike in NC: Good! Glad to have Gov Cooper and AG Stein fighting the good fight. Well and our neighbors need to complain to the legislators about this unholy mess. And write letters to the editors of our newspapers.