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1. about 1 month ago on The Big Picture

   There’s a couple of accounts on FB that post about this – going back to the original 40’s+ versions of some. Richard Thompson plays popular songs in their throwback musical signatures(? something like). Check out his version of Oops I did it again.

2. 6 months ago on The Big Picture

   catio? I got the panels for the deck – Retriever brand, from Tractor Supply. “stitched” together chicken wire to make a roof.

3. 6 months ago on Breaking Cat News

   Awwww. Yep – have several that can’t be picked up. Some just do as (sorry – brain f*rt); others tense up and scratch and bite. Most will eventually come to me on their own. As long as there are no dogs around.

4. 7 months ago on Breaking Cat News

   Is Gannett a source (someone mentioned AP?) or a conglomerate buying up small papers? From reading this, it looks like Gannett has taken lessons from Larry Ellison – He killed off Sun after buying it; and threatened to do that to People Soft. The PS folks fought – even going to court and forcing him to state/sign that he just wanted to combine with them. So he did – but killed off the reason PS was so popular, that it could run on any OS/DB platform, so now it’s just Unix/Oracle.

5. 7 months ago on Breaking Cat News

   And there was a time when new/unknown comics were put in all over a paper – as filler, maybe? Several that I followed when I read a paper were mixed in with the editorials (since there were already editorial cartoons), want ads, what ever the non news section was (where daily columnists were, like Dear Abby; or reporting on theater, tv, movies) and sometimes even the front section. Only place I don’t remember them is sports.

6. 7 months ago on Breaking Cat News

   Sue Ellen and all – if you haven’t done it yet, find a copy of the original books and read them. They should be at a library if you don’t do e-reading. Also look for the book of poems – When We Were Young and Now We Are Six. One of them has the wonderful poem about Tattoo and Pinklepurr >

7. 7 months ago on For Better or For Worse

   Exactly – if she complains about it, he’s going to keep it no matter what anyone else says. If she says nothing, or even says she likes it (and especially if his dad pretends to like it), then he’s likely to find it’s too much trouble.

8. 7 months ago on Breaking Cat News

   I still have my Peace ornament – more than 55 years old now.

9. 7 months ago on For Better or For Worse

   Another round of puppy-hood, eh?

10. 11 months ago on Aunty Acid

    So true