Totally, ChiKat. It's a term of resignation, or acceptance to put it more nicely, rather than implying some unnatural attachment. (sarameg, I didn't think you thought that! No worries)
Moms and dads totally earn it. I think our brains were not cooperating! Heh. And god knows, my damned cats get plenty of press time here.
I'm thinking yeah, because I was talking about people who had earned the death glare, as opposed to those who merely came in view and got it gratis! Heh.
It's funny, I'm more conscious of these things probably due to Hec, who gets a bad rap around here as a cat hater, when he really was ranting about people who do seem to take animals as human equivalents. And god knows I spend a lot of time observing, analysing, and talking about my dog. In fact, I do see a lot of parallels between dogs and toddlers, or between dog-owning and child-having. But that's what they are - parallels. One down here and one way the hell up there, not actually equivalent in any way.
Well, except for cutitude. I'd fight on that one. But even there, it's a much more static thing with an animal, not this constant OMG there's a whole new cute I never knew existed! that happens with your kids.
But I think we're on the same page, basically.
Man, I get talky when I'm drinking wine.
There is nothing funnier than Izzard.
"Day one: Rang bell, cat fucked off.
Day two: Rang bell, cat went and answered door.
Day three: Rang bell, cat said he'd eaten earlier.
Day four: Went to ring bell, but cat had stolen batteries.
Day five: Went to ring bell with new batteries, but cat put his paw on bell so it only made a
thunk
noise. Then cat rang his own bell!
I. ate. food."
Eddie Izzard and "Do you have a
flag?!?"
is another one that kills me. Oh, and the French lesson about how you would bring your monkey and cat etc. to set up the scene so you could use your vocabulary? Oh. God. I nearly peed myself the firts time I saw that.
Anything he does in a foreign language cracks me up. Summarizing
The Italian Job
in French? Priceless. Then after all that, "If you don't speak French, that's the last bit of it...I also took German." and then proceeds to do the bit in German.
I'm going to listen to Izzard right now!
ION, I don't know if any of you heard this on NPR today, but I thought it was a *really* cool idea, especially for political junkies or government students. Heard of fantasy football? Well this is Fantasy Congress. Build your own teams of senators and representatives! Get points for their successful legislation! Design snappy uniforms for them!
Too. Funny.
Oh! And follow-up post from last night--the word I was trying to remember is "transcoding", which is another form of code-sharing (that I think Cash had suggested?).
