They give me the heebie-jeebies.
Lorne: Take care of yourself and ah, make sure fluffy is getting enough love. Gunn: Did he have anything? Fred: No. And who's fluffy? Are you fluffy? Gunn: He called me fluffy? Fred: He said make sure…wait. You don't think he was referring to anything of mine that's fluffy, do you? Because that would just be inappropriate.
'Conviction (1)'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Burrell - May 14, 2013 6:44:02 pm PDT #22451 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
sarameg - May 14, 2013 7:01:49 pm PDT #22452 of 30001
This one was all bright eyed and not very ratlike. Hence, I thought it a field mouse at first (it was smaller then!) Some of the rats I've seen around are probably 5+lbers and some rivaled small cats! This one is just an overgrown mouse.
That said, I've heard stories of when Memorial Stadium (the perimeter of former parking lot maybe 25yds away? The old seating maybe 100?) was demolished and the rivers of rats that streamed into the 'hood on a daily basis. You couldn't drive down the street without squashing at least one. The city sent out door-to-door vets to do rabies vacs to household pets because they were that worried.
Now THAT would have me screaming.
Consuela - May 14, 2013 7:02:40 pm PDT #22453 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Rats totally freak me out, even though I grew up with a lot of white lab rats around (snake food, I'm afraid). But the big brown-grey Norwegian rats? Give me the shudders, like Burrell.
Connie Neil - May 14, 2013 7:24:04 pm PDT #22454 of 30001
brillig
And I have just finished paying off the back taxes and penalty to Utah for Hubby's lumpsum Social Security payment. Yay! That was two years worth of work, and done. Just in time for a new muffler for the Taurus and a couple of tires for Hubby's SUV.
Still I have my diet cherry ginger ale to sip on a lovely night.
Consuela - May 14, 2013 7:30:44 pm PDT #22455 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I love my siblings. After the fun overnight in the ER, my sister called my brothers and told them they had to be nice to me. AND she bought me a box of really killer salted caramels. And then my middle brother called me today and told me to plan to go to Kilimanjaro with him next winter.
Which I admit is really tempting. Kilimanjaro! Just imagine!
I would totally need a diamox prescription, though: 19,000 feet is really fucking high.
§ ita § - May 14, 2013 8:19:42 pm PDT #22456 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Here, natter, I made you a kitten: [link]
Consuela, those are good siblings. Definitely don't need to trade those up. Quality.
Oh, god 7:30 meeting. Why do I remember that now, sitting up, here?
Okay, bye.
Consuela - May 14, 2013 8:26:59 pm PDT #22457 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh, god 7:30 meeting. Why do I remember that now, sitting up, here?
Oh, that's just wrong. Off to bed with you!
...and with me. Night, all!
(It was an unproductive day, but I did send out two or three networking-type emails.)
(I shall not panic about being unemployed. I shall not panic about being unemployed...)
Matt the Bruins fan - May 15, 2013 12:00:25 am PDT #22458 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Take some ibuprofen, Matt. I'm glad you're okay.
Not even necessary, actually. The scrapes barely even hurt, so I just Neosporined them to avoid infection or catching halfwit cooties.
sarameg - May 15, 2013 1:03:40 am PDT #22459 of 30001
You too, ita, you too?
Calli - May 15, 2013 1:11:17 am PDT #22460 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I'm glad you weren't hurt too badly, Matt.