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FE Power Forums => Non-FE Discussion Forum => Topic started by: Lenz on March 23, 2015, 07:26:41 AM
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So I'm half-listening to my local news this morning, hear this story about a cat with a kidney stone. Youngish guy says it cost him $700 to get medicine for the cat to ditch the stone. Then the cat gets sick so he gets it an operation. By now I'm looking at the TV. Then they show a picture of a nice looking two-tone '72 F-100.
Guy says I had to sell my truck to pay for the operation. Took less than an hour to move it for $1,200 on Craig's list he says.
So at what point would you have the .22 in one hand and the the title to your truck in the other and say to yourself, well, the truck's gotta go, fluffy's sick...... ???
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Lost your cat?
Check under my tires.
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I remember as a kid, I was telling my grandfather that we took the animal to the vet for a shot.
He was 3/4 drunk and said, "In my day, animals only ever got one shot."
I didn't understand what he meant until years later.
Of course he also told us he spoke fluent German. We figured he'd been in the war, and so we didn't think much of it. He'd teach us words in German, that looking back, he'd clearly just made up. I still recall him saying that Germans invented the brazier for women, he said they were originally called "Schtopemfromfloppin." Sadly, I remember telling other people that I knew German...... I seem to recall getting some weird looks from people.
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I remember as a kid, I was telling my grandfather that we took the animal to the vet for a shot.
He was 3/4 drunk and said, "In my day, animals only ever got one shot."
I didn't understand what he meant until years later.
Of course he also told us he spoke fluent German. We figured he'd been in the war, and so we didn't think much of it. He'd teach us words in German, that looking back, he'd clearly just made up. I still recall him saying that Germans invented the brazier for women, he said they were originally called "Schtopemfromfloppin." Sadly, I remember telling other people that I knew German...... I seem to recall getting some weird looks from people.
Now that's funny: Kependemgirlsfromfloppin! Kinda's like...Klingon for the masses...LOL!
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Yeah, we were watching TV and the pope was up there rambling in Latin making the sign of the cross.
I said, "Grandpa, what is he saying?"
GP: "He is saying 'All you Italians, get off my lawn'.
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Yeah, and the correct German word for Grandma's jogging sports bra is "pertectinderkneesundshins".
In my view, as long as there are enough letters a tipping point has been reached and a word automatically becomes German.
As for Latin, who can say? I was not blessed with a multilingual Grandpa, but I was an altar boy for a time which qualified me as an official wine taster. The gig didn't last.
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Do they burn charcoal in that brazier? :o
KS
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My cat is a highly loved family member and I'll do the same thing if I have to.
I can always buy another car but I cant replace a family member.
There are alot of stuff I would sell before my Mustang though, for example my .22 ;)
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My cat woke me up one night by biting my tumb and screaming like crazy.
when i woke up he jumped from the bed and run downstairs howlig and screaming.
i run after and thought he realy lost it.
The hall downstairs was filled with smoke like the house was on fire
i opened the door and let him out and went back in the house to investigate
but the cat ran after me screaming like crazy to get me out of the house.
He didnt stop screaming before i was outside of the house
He could have escaped through his hatch and left me in the burning house
Instead he risked his life by running upstairs to wake me up an get me out.
I was able to put out the fire by myself so he saved me,my family,and the house
So i think i sell all my cars to save him if i have to and all my guns to not just
the .22s
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Nice story, Heo.
All my cats are borderline retarded. I've only had one cat this decade who was worth knowing.
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Great story Heo. I totally agree with you! :D
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Funny thing he didnt care my wife was still in the house ???
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Funny thing he didnt care my wife was still in the house ???
Now THAT is a true cat - Selective loyalty.
They're funny little things. My black one came into my office one day and started howling until I followed him. He led me into the bathroom, where the other cat had become trapped in the shower stall.
Mind you, the other cat was too cool to care about her predicament. She also treated the black one like crap - attacking and hissing at him all the time.
Why did he care? Maybe he likes the abuse??
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Great stories, cats do definitely show their own brand of loyalty. We had a barn cat, great mouser, she would follow me around wherever I went but stayed off some distance. It got so that if the kids wanted to play with it they'd look for me to find it.
Had to get her cut along the way though, she was a full-blown whore. Every time she "heated" she'd have her hindquarters jacked up in the air looking back and screaming at anything that moved (truth, grew up on a farm where we always had a ton of cats, never saw anything like this one). We couldn't give the kittens away fast enough, when I took her to get fixed after weaning the last time she was knocked up again. My brother in law still has some of the offspring from the kitty-cannon.
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Lenz,
So years ago, I was sitting in a friends shop. We'd been sawmilling out in the woods. I mentioned over a dozen beers that I needed to get the wife's cat fixed. He said not to waste my money at a Vet, he'd been a pig farmer for years and could do it.
I had never considering fixing a male cat at home, so I asked what we needed to do.
He said, "Well, we get this rubber boot ya see, and I'll stick the cat in the boot. You have to hold the boot really tight and I'll cut on it. When I'm done just throw the boot and don't make eye contact with the cat. Cuz he'll wanna git on anything he sees and hurt it."
I said, "Well that seems pretty scary. Tell ya what, when my daughter gets her first boyfriend lets do something like this to keep him in line."
He looks at me seriously and says, "Well, obviously for him, we'd need a much bigger boot."
I say, "You twisted redneck, I meant get the cat fixed to intimidate him. Nevermind.... and I'm taking my cat to the Vet."
#SouthGeorgiaProblems
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Holy crap that's funny Drew! My brother in law is a farmer, and he uses a roll of carpet when he castrates his cats. More of a one size fits all deal, so my two daughters future boyfriends will have something to worry about!
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Man Drew that's one loyal friend, beers or not! ;D ;D ;D
Never thought about the roll of carpet, we didn't cut the males. Soon as they were big enough the dominant male (we called him Whacker) drove 'em off. Whacker did well for himself until he ran into the house one day, jumped up on the cupboard and had at dinner. Suffice it to say that mom was not pleased.
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Drew, that's a truly excellent story!
KS
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Man Drew that's one loyal friend, beers or not! ;D ;D ;D
Yeah, I mean I was "third eye" drunk so I wasn't entirely sure how to handle the situation. I was a vegetable farmer, and I'm a pretty nonviolent person, I mean, if I had to kill an animal in order to eat it, I'd most likely just be a vegetarian.
It was around that time that I decided I needed to get out of the woods, I wasn't making enough money anyway, so I took a job on a tugboat. I figured maybe people would be a little smarter and civilized out there.
First time out, I became in charge of the engineering dept. We went offshore for 27 days and were coming in to crew change. Obviously after 27 days in "seahab" we all had a strong desire to get back on land.
So we're pulling into Morehead City North Carolina.....
I'm up in the wheelhouse with the Capt and the Deckhand. Their conversation went like this:
Deckhand: *looking through the binoculars* "WOOOOOweee, lookit dem girls!"
Capt: "Lemme see those binoculars..... Jesus, those girls are probably in high school!"
Deckhand: "Dammit man, I don't give a f*ck how smart they are."
I didn't know how to react in that situation either.... I just laughed hysterically, and they both looked at me strangely.
Deckhand: "I think Chief's gone crazy, been offshore too long."