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- Cat! Stop eating things (buffalo sauce!) out of the trash, and then having digestive issues that make me think you are really sick. Because I suspect you're not, and you're just an idiot, but this is both annoying and stressful. Your sister doesn't do these things; why do you do these things?

- For those newer to these parts, I must take this moment to mention the motto of the House of Iona (location of Baz Luhrmann's creative team): Communication, Accomodation, Transportation and Hair. If something is going to go hideously wrong, it's going to be one of those four things. This particular quasi-truism pleases me more than I know how to convey.

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[sykii.livejournal.com]

Gee, I wonder which cat.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

If something is going to go hideously wrong, it's going to be one of those four things.

Particularly true when one's talking about conventions.

[misch.livejournal.com]

why do you do these things

I learned them by watching you!

Why do you do these things?

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Because Cat is Cat.

Communication, Accommodation, Transportation and Hair.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Three of these are Universal, but the military dispenses with the hair.

Re: Communication, Accommodation, Transportation and Hair.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Come to think, I suspect that the military uses 'hair' the same way that engineers do.

Re: Communication, Accommodation, Transportation and Hair.

[argentla.livejournal.com]

See, maybe that's their problem.

I knew a guy at one point who had really long hair, who was also prone to ferocious temper tantrums and migraine headaches. I had a dream at one point (when he'd cut his hair off for a while) that his hair needed to be long so that it could function as a heat sink for his brain. In the dream, he ended up building a liquid-cooling system with hoses running down his back to a radiator on his belt, which incorporated a pump and cooling fan, to circulate coolant through his skull. I told him it might be easier just to grow out his hair again.

Re: Communication, Accommodation, Transportation and Hair.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

You have interesting dreams.:0

[argentla.livejournal.com]

That's nothing. At one point, I had a dream that the Air Force was vivisecting house elves (from the Harry Potter series) to use sections of their brains in the guidance systems of anti-wizard missiles.

Most of my dreams aren't like that, but when they are, they're very elaborately detailed.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

What's the blast radius on an ant-wizard missile?

[argentla.livejournal.com]

Depends what kind of weapon it's attached to, I suppose.

I think mostly it was a reflection of my profound irritation with the house elf in the movie, which was agonizingly obnoxious to watch. My brain somehow went from that to "how would you shoot at something that could become magically invisible?"

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

You zero in on the fumes from it's exhaust, of course.
The elf that farts, dies!

[miep.livejournal.com]

she does that because I put vitamin water on her once...

[better-late24.livejournal.com]

My dog ate a pen last night. And then a baby wipe this morning while I was trying to clean ink off her.

One of that cats vomited up a drawstring from pants the other day...a HUGELY long one. Seriously. Wondered how she didn't die.

My pets = not smart.

[nekosensei.livejournal.com]

Sounds like one of my in-laws' cats. Said cat had to go to the vet and have surgery because he ate yarn, some string, and part of one of those mesh bags used to hold potatoes. He's lucky they noticed he wasn't feeling well in time and took him to the vet. The mesh bag thing was blocking his intestines and could have killed him if they waited much longer.