Also, I combed enough hair off that cat to make a whole NEW cat

[conuly]

and then some!

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Comments

Yes...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Sign languages have accents. Mine carries over from Plains Indian Sign and assorted ones I've seen my characters use. Because I keep all the ones that are routinely useful. It makes people stare, but it works.

[wpadmirer]

You know, when one of your other children gets up on a chair and screams into a monitoring camera - it's time to stop that shit.

[conuly]

One would think.

[kyrielle]

It was probably time before that, but yeah.

And I thought the Elf on a Shelf was creepy and taught tolerance of police-state ideals and was creepy, and oh, did I mention creepy.

This...this is creepier.

[wpadmirer]

It is WAY creepier.

[larryhammer]

This.

(For a variation of Elf on a Shelf with added creepiness, for your Hannukah needs is Mensch on a Bench. Er, um. Uh. NO.)

[conuly]

I'd assumed the mensch was intentionally creepy, as a parody.

[larryhammer]

If so, the packaging copywriter managed to keep a remarkably straight face.

[jesse_the_k]

Exhausting mothers and sign language for the win! Thanks.

[archangelbeth]

Cats can reproduce by budding. Make sure to dispose of all brushed fur properly.

[conuly]

Straight in the compost. (Seriously, it was TWO HANDFULS OF THE STUFF.)

Also: Metaquotes?

[archangelbeth]

Query: context: Metaquotes?

[conuly]

You never heard of metaquotes? Well, you missed the glory days of LJ metaquotes, I'm sorry to say, but it's still fun (even if I seem to post half the entries there....)

[archangelbeth]

Oh, right, metaquotes... Why the query, though?

[conuly]

I always think it's polite to ask people before you quote them elsewhere.

[archangelbeth]

OH! Oh, sure!

[conuly]

(Unless you're making fun of them, in which case, don't bother.)

[archangelbeth]

No, just 100% perpelxitude.

[conuly]

LOL, no, I meant "If you're making fun of somebody, don't bother to ask them before you quote them, because they're not exactly going to say yes".

[archangelbeth]

*snicker* Ohhhhhhh.

Single-Food Diets

[flwyd]

A crazy Geman nudist in the west Pacific unfortunately learned that coconuts do not make a complete diet.

Re: Single-Food Diets

[conuly]

That is just fascinating, thank you.