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A stray cat started hanging out under our house a few days ago. At first I was chasing it away, cuz my cat tends to fight other cats but now I see that it's basically just hanging around our house. It sneaks onto our porch. I started feeding it (him? her?) yesterday. Getting a chance to get up close to him (I'm guessing), I see he's quite undernourished and fleabitten. Applied flea stuff just now. My cat seems to just be ignoring him even though I fed him with her bowl, so it isn't coming to blows. Who should I call to find out whose cat it is? He looks like he's been lost for a while, but isn't feral.

You could try the shelter, see if anyone's reported a missing cat. Or take it to a vet to see if it has a microchip.

So, we have a pet guest cat for the next couple of weeks! Gloriously, his name is MONKEY. Or maybe 'her' name. I don't bl00dy know. Today I went to Tesco and picked her (or 'him') up some cat food - the SHEBA brand. One is "rabbit and chicken" which frankly my deres sounds quite tempting TO ME!

Bored. Here is a list of my favourite MUM TELLY:
1. Inspector Lynley Mysteries
2. Midsomer Murders
3. Dib Dob Deeb (JUDGE JOHN DEED to you non legaleagles - would usually be #1 but it's not on at the mo)
4. Morse
5. Poirot

(Inspired by mention of Hamish Macbeth which I never really watched I must admit)

PS INSPECTOR NUMMY MORE LIKE

What is "mum telly"?

ask yer mum

She wouldn't know.

Yes she would!

It is "telly your mum likes". Usually featuring someone who can be described as "that nice kind Inspector" who can either be the main protagnist or supplemental. Men who are fancied by YOUR MUM. You know!!

LYNLEY
http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/lynley/characters/inspectorlynley_person_page.shtml

MIDSOMER
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsomer_Murders

DDD:
I reommend this ep:

"Episode 6 - Popular Appeal
Thursday 17 February 2005, 8.00pm, BBC One

During a reality TV show one contestant, in an explosion of stress-filled anger, kills another on camera. Judge John Deed hears the trial of the producers, who are charged with manslaughter when its learned psychologists profiled contestants to find those with 'The most entertaining flashpoints'.

Meanwhile, the judge is pushing for a police enquiry in the death of Rufus Barron. But as the judge gets closer to the truth so the armaments manufacturer, Sir Tim Listfield is provoked into more extreme measures..."

The reality TV show is called THE DUNGEON!! Features g4y n4z1 aryan stereotype... ON ACID!!! Caused a frenzy of text messages to fly between the Freaky Trigger text reviewin' collective resulting in sore thumbs the next morning!

I kill thread! Never mind, it's quarter to five.

Because you like him, Sarah, I have tried to like JJD, but I just don't. Guess what though, my mum LOVES him. I'm not really a big lover of mum telly. Although Inspector Lynley intrigues me.

And now I know how to use "cowboy up" correctly, I'm all in favour of it.

I've spent the last hour talking to my cousin who came over. She will take little orange cat next week, even if he is ringwormy. Bah. Still, it's probably for the best.

He could "intrigue" me any day.

"telly your mum likes"

Okay I know that is American Chopper, Miami Ink and Dirty Jobs.

She used to "fancy" this weatherman on the local news then I got to go to a superbowl party at his house. She's enormously excited.

she was rather. don't even know if that guy's still on tv.

CHOPPER!

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/catfoodrob/choppers/images/yellchopper.jpg

I saw a dude on a chopper the other day and thought... maybe I should get one! Whilst I greatly worry about bikes, choppers are slightly better for some reason. I like 'design-y' bikes, ie the Strida, loony Sinclair A-bike and so on. They're probably unrideable though. And you'd look a t00l...

Okay I know that is American Chopper, Miami Ink and Dirty Jobs.

I think it's safe to say that your mam is not like my mam. My mam likes these guys on telly:

http://www.thecinemasource.com/moviesdb/images/George_Clooney_9.jpg

or

http://www.nerf-herders-anonymous.net/JimmySmits.jpg

People like that.

I like people like that! Maybe I'm my own mom. That would make sense.

Yesss... it... would.

Ooh, Hamish Macbeth was a mainstay for me when I was single. mmm!

Mum tv for me is home and garden, Cary Grant films, and soppy teen dramas like Felicity. Oh, and Sex and the City. She asked me if that was what it was like to be single in a big city and sounded all disappointed when I told her it was not.

My mother has gotten so deaf that she turns the TV volume up to a level that makes younger people bleed from the ears. And then falls asleep in front of it.

Going out the the movies tonight with a weapons-grade case of the farts. Yay canned black beans! What an excellent way to clear a space so I can put my feet up on the seat in front of me!

Whoa, this thread is impossible to arouse. It must have a headache.

Ooh new thread. This is like coming home and finding someone's moved your furniture around. Except not really. I see pants are no longer optional, is this down to the lions, tigers and boobs thread? Can our kids no longer see their parents' pantless browsing?

My two boys are back at school today. The oldest has graduated to The Big Playground (Primaries 1-3 and 4-7 have separate playgrounds). How to stop them growing up?

You may remove your pants if you choose, you just can't talk about it in the thread title (for the benefit of people who are at work and kind of trying to maintain the moral high ground over the slackers they work with).

Back to school today? Jesus, the kids here don't go back for another two weeks.

Scotland going on holiday two weeks before the rest of UK & Ireland has its benefits. Holidays beginning at the end of June are usually a good bit cheaper than they are once the English holidays start so we can usually get a good deal if we go abroad. Also, hotels tend to have significantly lower numbers of the "two world wars and one world cup" mob who have ENGLAND written on every single item of clothing they own, just in case you weren't sure.

Not that I've been abroad for ages, what with pregnancies and babies and stuff.

When I was a kid the "holidays" meant going to Dunoon and playing crazy golf and eating chips on Fair Saturday then having the remaining 7 weeks off school to fuck around at home. The kids' telly in the first two weeks was always rubbish because the BBC didn't start their holiday programmes until England was on holiday.

Is Life On Mars one for the mums? I reckon mums would want to have John Simm round for a nice hot supper ("feed him up a bit") and they'd probably like the roguish nature of THE GENE GENIE.

I think that John Simm does bring out the maternal instinct in my mam. Not as much as David Tennant, though, who makes her positively cluck with the desire to feed him up.

(Actually feed him up, not "feed him up".)

Yes I see this thread title is too similar to the last. I suck. Never let me at it again.

Beth, what did you see?

Apparently Hurricane Erin has hit down south from us and we are drenched. I had to swim on my .5 mile walk from the bus to the office. I stress the distance b/c normally I take a shuttle that drops me much closer. But no, this is the dead time between semesters so it must be city bus through the monsoon.

I poured water from my vans and had to wring out my skirt.

Plus I'm feeling super exhausted and poorly this week. My cowboy up campaign is not shaping up well.

There's currently a TOTALLY NEKKID picture of David Tennants doing the rounds in the LOLCAT DOCTOR WHO COMMUNITY I AM IN (WHAT OF IT) from when he was in a PLAY and his PROTRUDING RIBS are the most disturbing thing about it! I mean - ouch! (His w1nk1e is NOT protruding fyi, not that I was looking). He definitely needs a pie or six.

The play is "Wot The Butler Saw" (scrawny nekid actor in a pleeceman helmet apparently).

nd his PROTRUDING RIBS are the most disturbing thing about it! I mean

That is disturbing.

I saw "What the Butler Saw" in London though I don't remember who did the nekkid bit.

I'm really hoping Dan Radcliffe comes to NYC when/if they do Equus on Broadway. I would travel for that. (pls to note he is now 18 so this is not crepey)

Not creepy at all.

I'll tell you what is a bit creepy. I have a huge crush on David Tennant (as Sarah says, what of it?) yet both my brother and my mother think he looks like my brother. I am slightly creeped out by this, because obviously I can see that he answers to the same description, as it were, but that hardly counts.

Hmm, I've never crushed on anyone who looks like my brother so feel unqualified to comment on the creepiness. Could just be coincidence, no? There is more to attraction besides the physical after all.

I'm going for posh Mexican food at lunch with my Potter compatriots. (Under the pretext of planning our party next week). And they're picking me up IN A CAR. This improves the day greatly.

:-)

okay no here's creepy. my grandmother is having dinner with my aunt when she goes, u know that niece of yours, Sasha, she's quite a girl now - very poised. She and Ramzi (me) should get married.

my aunt was like what are you crazy? they're cousins. and she's like, that doesn't make any difference in the world.

needless to say my aunt was shocked. she went on, but he's GAY.

"no he isn't"
"yes he is, you knew that"
"no i didn't"
"well know it"

haaaaa

Now where's me lousy t'shirt and ...ah, and whatever-that-other-thing was, where's that also?

I saw the Bourne movie. Awesome. I have to go post on that thread about the movie, but here I will complain about how FUCKING SORE my stupid hip was for the whole movie, like a nail was being tapped into the joint. As soon as I got up and walked away (after sitting through the interminable credits just in case there was hidden footage after them) I was fine. We walked through the graveyard to get to our car. I peed on someone's grave.

Yesterday I incorrectly received two deliveries at my house

A bouquet of flowers
&
£170 worth of silicone sealing gel

u peed on someone's GRAVE???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

who needs that much silicone sealing gel???

Beth is hardcore.

Britishers! Anyone know a decent recipe for treacle tart? I've found a couple online but they seem pretty different so I don't know which is more accurate.

I'm trying to plan some recipes for my Potter Party and want some authentic Hogwart's feast food.

I have never made tart.

aldo is an I Love Cooking type bod, and I know from num num experience his partner makes excellent cake, chili cheesecake notwithstanding :)

Don't ask him, he'll put spiders in it. Although for a Harry Potter party...

Surmounter, is it worse that she's your cousin, or that she's a GURL, (ew)? Actually, the cousin thing is worse.

Mister M has cousins who are married to each other; they got a special dispensation from the pope.

chili cheesecake

!!!

No spiders in cakes pls.

That last bit is kind of weird. I hope they were distant cousins.

Surmounter, at least if you entered into an arranged marriage you and your bride would have YOUR INTERFERING GRANDMA in common. That might make up for her being wrong sex. And the physical nonattraction would avert inbreeding! So it's all good.

OK, the simplest answer is that you can't make authentic treacle tart without golden syrup which AFAIK you can't get in the US. Somewhere on ILC there is a link to a website for how Merkins can knock it up which Jaq(?) posted. Which I can't find.

I'd say you can't go wrong with this recipe.

Wikipedia identifies a US brand, but really it has to be Lyles.

http://www.goldeneaglesyrup.com/images/ges005.jpg

I'm betting this would be pretty darn close. Available in every grocery store in MS/AL/GA, probably TN and LA.

xpost NOOOOOOOO

this thread is pretty good, but i still like the last few 'shout for the moderator' threads better. b+

WHOA thread went on vacation much??!

hey bro

heyy =P i'm about get some lunch. meatloaf sammich maybe

okay no. i made eggs instead. i've been really cheap about food lately, which is paying off.

but i did just buy cream of turkey soup. which was delicious but i'm pretty sure there was a stick of butter in it.

butter is so good it's unreal. the other night i had a bit of an episode when i just ate butter on crackers. i could feel my arteries stiffen.

can someone please sum up this clusterfuck for me? is Misery gone off the internet because of you? i never check/ed this thread but i've noticed her absence. she is my texas bro!!

i just got an email from her recently, but i hope she comes back here soon =)

1 chaki says luna is fake

2 luna leaves ilx in a huff

3 chaki w/some prodding reveals that luna has had internet romances w/a number of ilxors then been a no show when theyre supposed to finally meet in person

4 more details from chaki: shes posted fake pictures of herself and stalked chaki at his work

5 a number of long time ilx regulars are all lol of course shes fake duh

6 her friends get pissed

7 some truly strange clusterfucking ensues

-- jhøshea

I think Andrew F's post up there says it better. Major problem I had with it is not any accusations levelled at Luna, who I couldn't really care less about, but the snidey way it was done, and Chaki and others' refusal to back down even when the person who Chaki was telling everyone about turned up and said "er no, it wasn't exactly like that at all".

But whatever.

he was just savin face obv

you really think andrew's post says anything "better"?? its full of bullcrap

As opposed to "this is what happened to Bloke" then Bloke turns up and says "er, no it isn't", you mean?

geez i'm so in the dark

bloke was downplayin'

mornin

I get jealous of the Chicago thread. I would like a place to post mindlessly because I am boerd at work.

i know

sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow day at work

^^^

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Snakes On A Plane!

Hey M. White, how is Luna doing?

wow, guys.