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1. about 4 hours ago on Rose is Rose

   Yup. In our house, we have “daily use” dish and bath towels. Whenever my spouse decides that we are “having guests”, those get put in the wash and a clean set of “nice” ones get put out – always ones that reflect the season.

2. about 4 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   Amen.

3. about 4 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   And MAN, when they bite or kick … !!

4. about 4 hours ago on Over the Hedge

   Correction: Plenty got done, ALL of it to benefit DJT personally.

5. about 20 hours ago on Over the Hedge

   Chickens most certainly can fly.

   The only methods I know to prevent them from flying to escape a coop are:

   1) A ‘chicken-wire’ net cover for the entire coop.

   2) Using shears to clip the flight feathers on both wings. Advantage: the bird can not fly at all … or even glide. Disadvantage: the bird no longer can escape from a predator.

   3) Shear off the flight feathers on one wing. Advantage: the bird can avoid (but not escape) a predator.

   4) Most commonly used in commercial chicken operations – break the bones of one wing. Usual tactic in egg farms and raising chickens for market as food. The bones reset and heal offset or disconnected, rendering the wing and bird flightless.

   Of these, only 1) is really humane.

6. 1 day ago on Mike du Jour

   It’s right after they come out of the drier that cats love them. Wet blankets, not so much.

7. 1 day ago on Rose is Rose

   The one time I caught one of my cats lying down in the garbage can she just had pried open, I got her by the scruff and plunged her into a tub of water. Then I scrubbed her clean with a fingernail brush and strong-scented scented hair shampoo. You could smell her coming 5 minutes before she arrived.

   After that incident, she would not go within 30 yards of the trash can.

8. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

   Found one image of the entrance floor with both this design and an image of the 1966 letter from a Disney VP stating emphatically that the USACIL does have permission to use the image.

9. 1 day ago on Over the Hedge

   Now THAT’S eeewwwww!

10. 2 days ago on Non Sequitur

    Search for “great buffalo slaughter” images. Two in particular: a heap of skulls 40 feet tall, and one of hundreds of carcasses lying on the Midwestern plains. A third also is interesting: a trainload of Eastern ‘hunters’ brought out into the plains specifically to slaughter ‘trophies’.

    Buffalo were hunted by European immigrants in mass for their hides, yes. What was far worse, and caused permanent damage to the psyches of Native Americans, was the slaughter of thousands at a time of these great beasts – for the meat of their tongues (2 – 3 lbs per 2000 lb animal) which was shipped to the East Coast to fancy restaurants and served to the rich as a ‘’delicacy’. Native American tribes deliberately and intentionally were NOT notified of these slaughters, specifically to prevent them from utilizing any of the meat or hides.

    The entire remainder of the carcasses were left on the plains to rot. Native Americans were, in some states, prohibited from leaving their reservations for days or weeks after each such event, to ensure that the carcasses would spoil beyond any use. Several states STILL have laws on the books that prohibit any Native American from making use of any part of a bison carcass.