The fowl meaning of life

[Vort]

[Jamie123]

Hmmm....very amusing. But I thought we'd find out what was behind the door!

[zil2]

In my house, Smoke is the turkey.  (It's possible you have to be as old as or older than I am to understand that.  Or maybe you have to be a member of my extended family.  Not sure.  Regardless, Smoke's a turkey.)

[zil2]

Meanwhile, regarding flying turkeys...

[Jamie123]

10 hours ago, zil2 said:

In my house, Smoke is the turkey.  (It's possible you have to be as old as or older than I am to understand that.  Or maybe you have to be a member of my extended family.  Not sure.  Regardless, Smoke's a turkey.)

Remind me - is Smoke the new kitty? Klaw's friend?

[Jamie123]

10 hours ago, zil2 said:

Meanwhile, regarding flying turkeys...

I remember that show. It was very funny. Les had an "office" consisting of tape on the floor around his desk, and everyone who came to see him had to pretend to go through the "door".

[zil2]

7 hours ago, Jamie123 said:

Remind me - is Smoke the new kitty? Klaw's friend?

Yes.  He's a teenager now and far more mischievous than Klaw ever dreamed of being.

[Ironhold]

On 7/11/2024 at 5:44 PM, zil2 said:

Meanwhile, regarding flying turkeys...

All Elite Wrestling. 

Their flagship television show, AEW Dynamite, airs on Wednesday nights here in the United States. 

It's 2018, the very first year their show is on the air. 

It's the night before Thanksgiving. 

One of their factions of wrestlers is known as the "Best Friends". Two of the members, Chuck Taylor and Trent Baretta, have a tag match. A third member, Orange Cassidy, is at ringside. 

...In a turkey costume. 

During the course of the match, Orange Cassidy gets on the edge of the ring and dives off of it, deliberately slamming into some other wrestlers (most likely the other team; it's been years since I saw this episode). 

Cue the announcers making a WKRP joke. 

Cue the realization that whoever booked this match set the entire match up *just* to make that joke. 

[Jamie123]

10 hours ago, Ironhold said:

Cue the realization that whoever booked this match set the entire match up *just* to make that joke. 

There was a James Bond movie (I can't remember the title) in which the female protagonist is called "Goodnight". At the end, when Bond is having amorous alone-time with Goodnight (as he usually is with his leading lady at the end of every movie) M is trying to contact them on the radio. He says "Goodnight. Can you hear me Goodnight? Come in Goodnight. Goodnight. Goodnight." Eventually Bond picks up the microphone and says "Good night, sir." Cue credits.

That sent everyone in my family into hysterics the first time we saw it. I meanwhile was thinking (in my usual cynical way) that that was the whole reason why she was called "Goodnight" in the first place. Her name was a setup for a joke in the last ten seconds of the movie!

P.S. I just looked it up. It was The Man With The Golden Gun. James Bond was Roger Moore and Goodnight was Britt Eckland.

Edited July 13, 2024 by Jamie123

[Jamie123]

On 7/13/2024 at 9:10 AM, Jamie123 said:

That sent everyone in my family into hysterics the first time we saw it. I meanwhile was thinking (in my usual cynical way) that that was the whole reason why she was called "Goodnight" in the first place. Her name was a setup for a joke in the last ten seconds of the movie!

P.S. I just looked it up. It was The Man With The Golden Gun. James Bond was Roger Moore and Goodnight was Britt Eckland.

I've just dug a bit deeper. It seems that Mary Goodnight did appear in the original Bond novels by Ian Fleming, including The Man With The Golden Gun, but she was not a major character. (She was a secretary and a friend of Miss Moneypenny.) So my cynical suspicions still hold!

[Jedi_Nephite]

On 7/12/2024 at 1:22 PM, zil2 said:

Yes.  He's a teenager now and far more mischievous than Klaw ever dreamed of being.

Last week, we got a new 10-week old kitten.  We named him Hobbes.  Our older cat wanted nothing to do with him at first, but is starting to warm up to him.

[zil2]

10 minutes ago, Jedi_Nephite said:

Last week, we got a new 10-week old kitten.  We named him Hobbes.  Our older cat wanted nothing to do with him at first, but is starting to warm up to him.

Best wishes to you and your furry family!  I kept mine almost completely apart (other than escape attempts) for 3.5 days.  Feeding treats near the door that separates them will help.  By the end of the 3.5 days, they were ready to meet.

[Jamie123]

11 hours ago, Jedi_Nephite said:

Last week, we got a new 10-week old kitten.  We named him Hobbes.  Our older cat wanted nothing to do with him at first, but is starting to warm up to him.

It usually takes a week or two. You'll probably notice that when the little kitten gets lippy (as kids are wont to do!) the older cat will nip the back of his neck to try to put him in his place. The operative word being "try". Kittens - like most kids - don't always take notice of their elders!

Edited July 22, 2024 by Jamie123
Wrong sort of wont

[Ironhold]

2 hours ago, Jamie123 said:

It usually takes a week or two. You'll probably notice that when the little kitten gets lippy (as kids are won't to do!) the older cat will nip the back of his neck to try to put him in his place. The operative word being "try". Kittens - like most kids - don't always take notice of their elders!

Little orange guy whose mommy dropped him off on our back porch. Mom decides he's too little to be by himself and so takes him in. The tuxedo kitty I have at the time becomes his de facto second mommy. This means that in addition to caring for him, she's also in charge of discipline. 

One day they're both going for the same bowl of dry food despite several bowls being available. He uses his smaller size to slip in past her and put his face in the bowl first. She chomps his ear as hard as she can without drawing blood. He never does it again. 

[Jedi_Nephite]

16 hours ago, zil2 said:

Best wishes to you and your furry family!  I kept mine almost completely apart (other than escape attempts) for 3.5 days.  Feeding treats near the door that separates them will help.  By the end of the 3.5 days, they were ready to meet.

Thank you!

Yeah, we considered doing that, but figured it would be difficult to pull off with our two young kids in the house.  We haven’t been forcing it, though, and they’re starting to play together now.  Arwen still reminds the little guy who is top cat around here.

[Jedi_Nephite]

15 hours ago, Jamie123 said:

It usually takes a week or two. You'll probably notice that when the little kitten gets lippy (as kids are wont to do!) the older cat will nip the back of his neck to try to put him in his place. The operative word being "try". Kittens - like most kids - don't always take notice of their elders!

That’s definitely been the case with these two.

[zil2]

Meanwhile, @Jedi_Nephite, pictures, or it didn't happen!

[Jedi_Nephite]

On 7/22/2024 at 10:24 AM, zil2 said:

Meanwhile, @Jedi_Nephite, pictures, or it didn't happen!

Here you go.  Arwen is the orange and white.  Hobbes is the little gray and black.

[zil2]

37 minutes ago, Jedi_Nephite said:

Here you go.  Arwen is the orange and white.  Hobbes is the little gray and black.

 😻 So sweet! That first pic is adorable. Thanks, @Jedi_Nephite! All the best to you and your little cuties. 

[Jamie123]

1 hour ago, Jedi_Nephite said:

Hobbes is the little gray and black.

Named after the philosopher or the stuffed tiger?

[Jedi_Nephite]

22 minutes ago, Jamie123 said:

Named after the philosopher or the stuffed tiger?

The stuffed tiger.  Calvin and Hobbes was my favorite cartoon strip growing up.  When I was 10, I wrote the creator, Bill Watterson, a letter and he wrote back.  It was very brief, but I always thought it was neat that he took the time to write back.

[Jamie123]

12 hours ago, Jedi_Nephite said:

The stuffed tiger.  Calvin and Hobbes was my favorite cartoon strip growing up.  When I was 10, I wrote the creator, Bill Watterson, a letter and he wrote back.  It was very brief, but I always thought it was neat that he took the time to write back.

Calvin and Hobbes started appearing in the Daily Express when I was in my early 20s. I had bought the Mail for years but I changed to the Express mainly because of Calvin. The first storyline I can remember was the "duplicator". And yes I went through the same confusion everyone does about whether Hobbes is magic, or whether he is only in Calvin's imagination. I understand Waterston himself refused ever to answer that question.

Edited July 29, 2024 by Jamie123

[Jedi_Nephite]

11 hours ago, Jamie123 said:

Calvin and Hobbes started appearing in the Daily Express when I was in my early 20s. I had bought the Mail for years but I changed to the Express mainly because of Calvin. The first storyline I can remember was the "duplicator". And yes I went through the same confusion everyone does about whether Hobbes is magic, or whether he is only in Calvin's imagination. I understand Waterston himself refused ever to answer that question.

I think Watterson has said that Hobbes doesn’t magically come to life, but he isn’t exactly imaginary either.  Calvin just perceives Hobbes one way while everyone else perceives him a different way (which, honestly, to me sounds the same as imaginary, but I think I get Watterson’s point).

[NeuroTypical]

20 hours ago, Jamie123 said:

21 hours ago, Jedi_Nephite said:

Hobbes is the little gray and black.

Named after the philosopher or the stuffed tiger?

Well, Hobbes the tiger (and also Calvin the kid) are both named after their 17th and 16th century namesakes.

Also, with Waterson's decision to not pursue copyright protection, various fans have started the strip Hobbes and Bacon with a grown-up Calvin, now married to Suzie Derkins, with a daughter named after Francis Bacon.  

 

Edited July 29, 2024 by NeuroTypical

[Jamie123]

46 minutes ago, NeuroTypical said:

Also, with Waterson's decision to not pursue copyright protection

He had some dignity did Bill Watterson.

There is the infamous bumper sticker in which Calvin appears to be urinating with an evil grin on his face, but that is an unauthorised rip-off of a drawing by Watterson where Calvin is filling water balloons - from a tap!

So aside from the compilation books (I have several and love them all) you won't find a single piece of genuine C&H merchandise anywhere!

Edited July 29, 2024 by Jamie123