I know I'm a bad poet, but I'm a good man. All I ask is that... is that you try to see me—

William ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Natter 74: Ready or Not  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


beekaytee - Mar 31, 2016 8:10:13 pm PDT #18762 of 30003
Compassionately intolerant

I adapted Golum's song about fish for when Bartleby would come in with wet feet.

I'd bellow FEET and he would flop over and stick his paws in the air.

While wiping each, I would sing,"juicy fish, good to eat, wipewipewipwwipe wipe the feet.

We would both giggle...in our own way.

I would also sing You Are My Sunshine to him a lot.

Cagney has no ear for music.


Liese S. - Mar 31, 2016 8:35:21 pm PDT #18763 of 30003
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Yeah, remind me to stay off the internet tomorrow.


Atropa - Mar 31, 2016 10:10:25 pm PDT #18764 of 30003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Miss Erzabet No Biting recognizes "Lovecats" by The Cure. If she hears it, she comes running up to me. I've trained her according to the Elder Goth Cabal!


Steph L. - Apr 01, 2016 12:28:41 am PDT #18765 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

There was an article on The Toast about changing Hamilton lyrics to add in "dog/puppy" or your dog's name. So for a while I would sing "Oh Kato, you outshine the morning sun" to him, but he wasn't very appreciative.


Sue - Apr 01, 2016 1:32:11 am PDT #18766 of 30003
hip deep in pie

Any songs for Oz will be begging him to stop peeing on/in things which he's done three times this week. Or it will be a song about me murdering a cat.


billytea - Apr 01, 2016 4:40:20 am PDT #18767 of 30003
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Oh, look, you've caught up. Happy April 1, everyone. [link]


Steph L. - Apr 01, 2016 4:54:49 am PDT #18768 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I do always get a kick out of Google's April Fools Day jokes, or when webcomics I read do something weird. And NPR usually brings their A game to April Fools Day. Beyond that...meh.

Two years ago, friends of ours really did elope on April 1, and when they posted on FB, no one believed them.


Dana - Apr 01, 2016 5:10:03 am PDT #18769 of 30003
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

There was an article on The Toast about changing Hamilton lyrics to add in "dog/puppy" or your dog's name. So for a while I would sing "Oh Kato, you outshine the morning sun" to him, but he wasn't very appreciative.

I'm pretty sure LMM has said he wrote that song with his dog in mind (as he did not yet have a child).


Dana - Apr 01, 2016 5:12:12 am PDT #18770 of 30003
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

NPR Classical Music's entry into the April Fools:

"We've always known Rachmaninoff's music was a force of nature," says Harbeson University professor of musicology Lilly Swift. "It appears now that in his circus work he also understood the nature of force."

[link]

Edit: And it ends with a corker of a classical music pun.


SailAweigh - Apr 01, 2016 5:19:27 am PDT #18771 of 30003
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

Dad~ma, Consuela.