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Jimbo 
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One-a these guys?
 I didn't know they'd been around that long.
Don't you mean B.C.?
 Which, at your age is apropos anyway.
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Posted: 21 Sep 2011 at 4:21pm |
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Is that because of the size of your balls?  |
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Jimbo
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Posted: 21 Sep 2011 at 4:26pm |
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Or the color.
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Posted: 21 Sep 2011 at 4:28pm |
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Yes, on both counts. Big and black.
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Posted: 21 Sep 2011 at 4:47pm |
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I dunno, I'm still kinda thinkin "BB" refers only to the size....
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Thor
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Posted: 21 Sep 2011 at 5:05pm |
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Those would be the satellites that orbit around my "B's".
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Posted: 22 Sep 2011 at 12:32am |
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Those aren't satellites Thor..... they're dingle-berries!!!
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Posted: 22 Sep 2011 at 3:18am |
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Thor kinda missed that! I'm surprised! |
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Posted: 23 Sep 2011 at 5:32am |
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"Today on Dr. Oz: 700 lb woman who wants to keep gaining weight"
Dr. Oz: blahblah diet blah blah obese blahblahblah Oprah blah blahblah ratings blahblah
Fat Lady: Are you done yapping yet? I have to get over to the Springer set where my lovers are going to fight over me
"Tomorrow on Springer: Big Bad Mama and her Midget Orgies"
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Posted: 23 Sep 2011 at 4:26pm |
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Priceless! |
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"Cottage cheese is not a 'feminine product'!"
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Thor
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Posted: 23 Sep 2011 at 4:47pm |
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I actually have seen shows like that. You get these morbidly rotund women, all done up a la Glamour Shots, who see themselves as BBWs, and want to get even more "BBW". They have no qualms talking about how beautiful they think they are (though it always sounds like they're trying to convince themselves of it). Then, to prove it's all true, they go to some fancy nightclub and show all these guys trying to pick them up.
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Posted: 23 Sep 2011 at 9:28pm |
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LOL I AGREE!!! |
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The Geico Gecko: annoying us since the late 90's
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Posted: 24 Sep 2011 at 3:49am |
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Jesus Christ! This two-bit hack crackpot is an insult to the medical community. This guy is just as bad as CNN report on crime or whatever that would scare the sh*t out of you! I mean what does this
 guy advise? For you to buy overpriced organic foliage, spend three-five hours re-hydrating legumes and chilies and cooking $7-$12/lb. wild-caught salmon and convert your diet into a quasi-vegetarian one! Gimme a break! He's like Oprah, another so-called expert that assumes you are a schizophrenic nutjob suburbanite willing to obey. Instead of being clear on how much arsenic is your low-priced Apple Juice. It's like he'd just came out and said "THERE'S ARSENIC IN YOUR JUICE!" RUNNN! The trouble with these people is that they scare you into buying groceries from Whole Foods, Health Food stores and nowhere else in which case your grocery bill could easily ride off into the stratosphere into the $230 range. "A friend of Oprah's is no friend of mine. He's a snake-oil salesman!"
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Posted: 24 Sep 2011 at 2:51pm |
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People have become obsessed with food...to the point where they're even obsessed with their pets' food. Have ya seen how some brands are advertising their pet food these days? Anti-oxidants?? "Life-source bits"?? Really??
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Posted: 24 Sep 2011 at 3:51pm |
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And to think I used to respect the guy(he assisted at Joe Torre's brother's heart-transplant surgery).
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Posted: 24 Sep 2011 at 11:20pm |
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He actually IS a top-notch physician/heart surgeon & everything he recommends is based in truth.
That having been said, his recommendations, especially on food, are as PitLoad said, pretty unralistic. He makes it sound as if it's a snap to prepare all the healthy stuff he recommends, but for most people, making a lot of that stuff is a major league hassle.
There were a few recommendations on his food show yesterday that I'm going to follow.
I'm gonna start making lentils more often, eating pears, peas, soybeans, sea salt etc. etc.
There are some of his things you can do.
Sucks getting old & having to worry about that crap.
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Posted: 24 Sep 2011 at 11:25pm |
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I can see where anti-oxidants would be good for pets.
Just by adjusting the ingredients in cat food, cats are living a few years longer than they did when I was a kid.
Back then, if a cat lived to be 11 or 12 it was doing good.
Nowadays they routinely live to be 15 - 16 & longer.
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Posted: 25 Sep 2011 at 1:00am |
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All of our childhood cats lived to be at least 17 and our LuLu was close to 20. My Bob died 11 years ago at nearly 19. They were all indoor cats, and spoiled rotten.
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Posted: 25 Sep 2011 at 2:20am |
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I knew a woman whose cat, Entree, was 24 y/o last time I saw her. That was in the mid-90s. He's probably dead by now. Or maybe not. Maybe he's still goin' strong at the age of 40.
And the cats (brothers) who my old roommate had when he moved into my apartment in 1981, both made it into this millenium. They both died at 21. They're in a pet cemetery now, with a plaque that says "Brothers, best friends...and two cool cats".
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Posted: 25 Sep 2011 at 4:18am |
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Both of our cats we had back in the 70's died at around 11 or 12 & they were indoor cats their entire lives.
One food-related condition that used to be more common in male cats than it is today was plugged up bladders.
Because they used to put too much magnesium in cat food, it raised the ph factor in their blood which in turn lowered the acidity. The lower acidity allowed tiny crystals, like fine white sand, to form in their urine which would collect at the opening to the urethra (or is it the ureter?) & form a blockage.
We had one of them treated several times for it & the other one a couple.
Back then, there was an old country horse doctor with a bum leg who had a veterinary practice nearby. He was very "results oriented" & charged insanely cheap fees. Didn't pussy-foot around either. When one of our cats got the tip of his tail pinched off in the back door, we took him in, the doctor doped him up, cut off a bit of damaged tail bone, then sewed up the skin & bandaged it. Gave us some antiseptic salve & clean bandages to change the old ones.
Charged my mom $11.
That's ELEVEN DOLLARS!!!
 For performing surgery!!!
When their bladders got plugged, he'd dope em up, stick a hypo needle full of saline straight up their thing-a-ma-jig & plunge the blockage out of the opening. Then he'd tilt his table a little, take his big ol hand & squeeze the backed up pee out of cat's bladder. I seem to remember a catheter tube too, but I'm sure. When it was done running down the lip along the edge of the table, right at the corner at the bottom would be a little pile of snow-white white crystals.
Then he'd give us some pills to lower the cat's ph & they'd be good for a year or two.
Charged less than $20 for that.
We tried taking one of them to an "animal hospital" for the same thing. They kept him for two days, observed him & gave us some pills that didn't work along with a big bill. So we took him back to the other guy. Cat was unplugged when we left his office.
Ahhhh the good ol days.
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Posted: 25 Sep 2011 at 2:18pm |
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Sneakers (the one who moved into my house five or six years ago) is at least 17, according to his actual owner. Though adult cats are not supposed to drink milk, he's been drinking it all his life. I give him some every day, and his actual owner puts milk out for him, too. Why stop?
Well, there's one reason. In April, Sneakers developed an abscess in his anal gland. The anal gland is responsible for coating cat crap with its really stinky stuff. The only purpose of that is for marking territory. However, it requires the stimulation that solid crap provides on its way out. Due to his milk consumption, Sneakers' craps are too loose to provide that stimulation. So, the stinky stuff builds up with bacteria and can create an abscess right next to the hole. In the case of Sneakers, I took him to the vet who had to actually clean him out from the inside using her fingers. He didn't like that.
Anyway, this problem could be a once-in-a-lifetime thing. And he's 17, so why deny him what he loves, at this point? If it happens again, I'll deal with it again.
Besides, it's not like humans don't eat stuff they shouldn't.
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Wow. When Killer got "sick" back in March, it cost me $475 just for the visit, the testing and the painkiller. While these tests couldn't find his immediate problem, they did find his enlarged heart (which eventually killed him). It wasn't until a week later when he developed abscesses on his back that we discovered that he'd been attacked by another cat from behind (and didn't even try to fight back). That was why he'd been acting so sick! Poor little dude!
Anyway, when I took him in after discovering the abscess, it cost another $75. And then, when I discovered a second abscess, it was another $50. Then there was about $20 worth of special food, and a $10 "cone of shame" from PetSmart. Total cost for Killer's bite---about $630!!
Had I waited for abscesses to appear, it would've only cost me maybe $100. Had Killer been able to tell me what happened from the start, I probably could've gotten away with a visit and some antibiotics, maybe $60. But when a cat is so obviously distressed (not eating, not sleeping, in obvious pain), it can't wait. Sort of a Catch-22.
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Posted: 25 Sep 2011 at 10:53pm |
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"Tomorrow on Dr. Oz:
Home Vet Care: How to finger your dog or cat"
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This guy annoys me too. As some of you may know, I work at a TV news station, and we just replaced "Oprah" with "Oz". His scare tactics irritate me...last week he had one based on the movie Contagion and whether or not it could really happen. And I'm sure the soccer mom sheep in his audience lapped it right on up!
Between that and the expensive stuff he promotes for "everyday living", I don't find myself a fan. As I told one co-worker, leave the scare tactics to us news people! |
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guy advise? For you to buy overpriced organic foliage, spend three-five hours re-hydrating legumes and chilies and cooking $7-$12/lb. wild-caught salmon and convert your diet into a quasi-vegetarian one! Gimme a break! He's like Oprah, another so-called expert that assumes you are a schizophrenic nutjob suburbanite willing to obey. Instead of being clear on how much arsenic is your low-priced Apple Juice. It's like he'd just came out and said "THERE'S ARSENIC IN YOUR JUICE!" RUNNN! The trouble with these people is that they scare you into buying groceries from Whole Foods, Health Food stores and nowhere else in which case your grocery bill could easily ride off into the stratosphere into the $230 range.
