Shout-out to Chase for starting a new recurring tip. “About time too,” she writes, “since your site has replaced CO as the first thing I check when I get on my computer everyday!” Thanks to you and to all the subscribers for sticking with me.
And speaking of sticking (see what I did there?), “I Voted” stickers are popping up everywhere as early voting gets underway in many states. Reader James D. writes: “My cat Dottie made it on Cute Overload in 2014 with this video:”
And now it’s 2016, and Dottie’s still stuck on her sticker. Wear it proudly, Dottie!
I love the pussycat’s facial markings. Reminds me of those math questions (forget what they’re called) 1/2 is to 4 as 3/8 is to???? Or, maybe just part of a checkerboard.
Proportions or ratios.
Thanks, AB – I think I was thinking ratios. Ah, the aging brain.
Good work, Dottie! I’m also protective of my voting stickers! In Ohio we have pretty great ones, in my opinion:
I recognize that sticker! I’m going to have one soon. Going in for early voting this week.
I voted by mail, and I have a nice “I VOTED/by mail/I made freedom count” sticker that came in the envelope with my ballot! I complained to my husband that I didn’t want to vote by mail because I wouldn’t get a sticker, and he promptly pulled his out and showed me that I would, so what the heck, I have voted now. I was good to get it over and done, after the torturesome length of this campaign!!!
I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a sticker for voting. 🙁
Happily we won’t have to suffer election in Québec until 2018 and for the federal election it won’t be until 2019. Of course ours don’t last as long as yours, they are over in a matter of weeks, the last one in 2015 was one of the longest at 11 weeks.
The campaign process in the US is unconscionably long,
stultifying and, except for this go-round, boring. There
should be a limit of, say, six-eight weeks to get it all said and
done. Dottie should be a poll watcher, folks would turn out
in droves.
Many people are saying that video is rigged.
Believe me, bad hombres everywhere rigging everything. It’s tremendous.
Voter fraud! Is this cat a citizen!?>??? Are we sure she’s not impersonating some famous cat, like Grumpy Cat or Lil Bub? Was she even born in the US?????!/1 1 1 1 1 1??????
Oh, AND I suspect she’s a nasty woman.
I just had to get that out of my system.
How many times did she vote? At least she’s a living voter.
Beautiful kitty! I’m with her!
Can I send her as my proxy voter?
At least this time I get to go to iPlay America with its giant parking lot instead of the firehouse that barely fits 8 cars.
I hear there’s already a “Nasty Woman” T-shirt… 😀
Want.
Here’s an Amazon list of t-shirts with the phrase. Take your pick!
http://amzn.to/2dQYGOh
I like:
There’s a few of them. My favorites:
(Nasty Woman and the Bad Hombres Victory Tour 2016)
fkaWaldenPond asked me to post this somewhere in this thread on her behalf:
Thank you Mike! This looks like it could/ should be a painting. It even captures the moment when his wife realizes.
A couple of my fb acquaintances worked press there that night who had slogged through it years previously and they noted that never in there time had they seen ANY GUEST, let alone Gop so SHUNNED.
Wow! Can’t rig that.
You may be interested in this Reddit board, “Accidental Renaissance,” containing photos that look like they could be paintings. (occasionally NSFW)
https://www.reddit.com/r/AccidentalRenaissance/
Thank you.
Ohhh thank you, I will have a gander tonight at home.
Yuge, even.
But let’s not get political here,
it has been a place of retreat
from all the crepe being tossed
around from ALL sides.
Oh, I concur, Phred’s Mom – much needed respite here.
Thanks, Murray. Have one for me.
I’m an Independent.
I believe the voting booth
should be even more private
than the confessional. Only
you and your conscience.
And, like a lot of religious beliefs,
no two people will share identical
concepts.
No more from me on this. Only
cute stuff gets my attention. And
maybe dark chocolate, truth be told.
And Guinness.
May I add this? Yes, Phred’s Mom, I was raised that way, too. Now I have altered my thinking. Not necessary about this election, but when I started seeing signs in our neighborhood before some election, opinions of which were totally opposite of mine, I found a sign, put it out thinking: Not everybody here thinks like that!
Wear it proudly, Dottie! Too many fine people have suffered and died that we may exercise that sacred right.
Vote!
Really? This post has been up for hours and nobody has made the most obvious comment? Well, I guess it’s up to me, so… (clears throat)
No…
Touchy…
STICKY!
How’d you make such big letters?!
By enclosing my text in <span> tags and adding a style attribute to change font size. The values I used were “larger” “x-large” and “xx-large”. (I could have used numerical values instead.) For example, to output the large “STICKY!” I typed:
<span style=”font-size:xx-large”>STICKY!</span>
What does that MEAN???? You mean to say some of you actually understand that bit of alphabet soup? I am gobsmacked. And dumb, I guess.
Not dumb, just not used to the underlying system that governs typography and design on websites. You’re not alone, I promise. I’ve been doing this sort of work since 1995, so it’s second nature. And I apologize if my answer to your question was too technical. I forget myself sometimes.
I’m somewhat familiar with tags. I know how to do italics, bold, underline,
strikethrough, and. But I’ve never used the span tag.
Edit: Okay, apparently underline doesn’t work here… it works on the disqus system.
DUH! (face palm)
LMAO! ??
My cat hates stickies, she really doesn’t like them.
Mike, I got scared when you said you had to say it: no grabby the…
Phew!
😀
Good one, Faye!
HILARIOUS!!!!
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It’s funnier if you put the stickers on the bottom of the kitty’s paws and then watch him or her do the Shakn’ It Cha-cha.
OK, I’m evil. Plus, it’s really best if you have 4 stickers, one for each paw, and that means voting 4 times. Which I think is only allowed in Chicago and Louisiana.
Ha!
I remember once on a Christmas day, wrapping everywhere, and my cat came flying through the room, screeching – with a curly paper bow stuck to her arse.
We always toss the wrappings in a pile for the cats to play with. Stars ignores it and Stripes usually gets bored quickly, but sometimes a ribbon will catch his fancy and he’ll play with that for a while.
We could only wrap any gifts. My cat would eat the ribbon, not be able to digest it, then bring it back up. What a “nice” present.
We tried to find fun and exciting paper.
I rarely bother with ribbon but that’s just cuz I’m lazy.
What a beautiful kitteh! It’s like she couldn’t decide whether to be a calico or a tortoise shell, so she’s a patchwork!
Aw, my Dottie submission made it!
Her checkerboard face has elicited many reactions, but my favorite of all time is: “That’s a very heraldic face: it can be blazoned Quarterly or and sable!”
Edit: that wasn’t meant as a reply to you specifically, but sure, why not!
I love her centered chest marking. Very eye catching.
Ah, the little bib?
In case it’s not obvious from that and the two videos, she really loves that cat tower.
Please .. Keep your Chads to yourself !
Hey, leave my cousin Chad out of this!
You need to keep him on a leash please .. He’s getting out of control !
*Snickers*
It’s all that Irish rock ‘n roll music he plays.
(True story – he plays bass in a band.)
Oh, hang Chad – and what do Snickers have to do with it!!!?
No, he’s vegan; he wouldn’t eat a Snickers.
Happy happy birthday, Murray!!
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Thank you! Going to lunch with a couple of friends today. My husband is very involved with a regatta that is always this time of the year – The Head of the Schuylkill – he was director for 30 years, longer than we’ve been married. So my birthday kinda gets lost in the shuffle, so we won’t be doing anything ’til Sunday but that’s fine, it just prolongs it!
Good, enjoy it all.
Happy birthday!
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Happy Birthday! Have a great time!
Hey Murray C. Happy Birthday! You are one cool cat. 🙂
Thanks, everybody, it’s turning out to be lots of fun. I’m going out tonight to an Irish session, maybe get to sing a song or two, drink a little wine – nice time.
Cool Cat, huh??
Slainte! Murray C.!
My pleasure Mike!! Hopefully someday my pocket flow will enable me to offer more. Thanks for all you do!