these bloody centrists never change!
― calzino, Monday, 19 February 2018 00:01 (six years ago) link
oops, missed the pay more bit there!
― calzino, Monday, 19 February 2018 00:02 (six years ago) link
Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler, with Hitler holding Blondi on a leash.Species Canis lupus familiarisBreed German ShepherdSex FemaleBorn 1941Died Circa April 4, 1945Nation from GermanyOccupation Propaganda dogEmployer Adolf HitlerNotable role Avatar of German animalhoodKnown for Germanischer UrhundOwner Adolf Hitler and familyOffspring Wulf
― sarahell, Monday, 19 February 2018 00:19 (six years ago) link
Blondi's offspring lasted about as long as Goebbels kids by the sound of it!
― calzino, Monday, 19 February 2018 00:39 (six years ago) link
thx 4 new screen name
― Occupation Propaganda dog (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 February 2018 08:09 (six years ago) link
this is byron's dog boatswain (the poem to him is apparently not by byron but by his close friend john hobhouse)
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/11/29/1385740481027/Lord-Byrons-dog-Boatswain-002.jpg
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 11:23 (six years ago) link
http://barkpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/dog-byron-612x287-copy.jpg
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 11:26 (six years ago) link
https://silverbirchpress.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/white_cat_buk1.jpg
THE HISTORY OF ONE TOUGH MFby Charles Bukowski
he came to the door one night wet thin beaten andterrorizeda white cross-eyed tailless catI took him in and fed him and he stayedgrew to trust me until a friend drove up the drivewayand ran him overI took what was left to a vet who said,”not muchchance…give him these pills…his backboneis crushed, but is was crushed before and somehowmended, if he lives he’ll never walk, look atthese x-rays, he’s been shot, look here, the pelletsare still there…also, he once had a tail, somebodycut it off…”I took the cat back, it was a hot summer, one of thehottest in decades, I put him on the bathroomfloor, gave him water and pills, he wouldn’t eat, hewouldn’t touch the water, I dipped my finger into itand wet his mouth and I talked to him, I didn’t go any-where, I put in a lot of bathroom time and talked tohim and gently touched him and he looked back atme with those pale blue crossed eyes and as the days wentby he made his first movedragging himself forward by his front legs(the rear ones wouldn’t work)he made it to the litter boxcrawled over and in,it was like the trumpet of possible victoryblowing in that bathroom and into the city, Irelated to that cat-I’d had it bad, not thatbad but bad enoughone morning he got up, stood up, fell back down andjust looked at me.“you can make it,” I said to him.he kept trying, getting up falling down, finallyhe walked a few steps, he was like a drunk, therear legs just didn’t want to do it and he fell again, rested,then got up.you know the rest: now he’s better than ever, cross-eyedalmost toothless, but the grace is back, and that look inhis eyes never left…and now sometimes I’m interviewed, they want to hear aboutlife and literature and I get drunk and hold up my cross-eyed,shot, runover de-tailed cat and I say,”look, lookat this!”but they don’t understand, they say something like,”yousay you’ve been influenced by Celine?”“no,” I hold the cat up,”by what happens, bythings like this, by this, by this!”I shake the cat, hold him up inthe smoky and drunken light, he’s relaxed he knows…it’s then that the interviews endalthough I am proud sometimes when I see the pictureslater and there I am and there is the cat and we are photo-graphed together.he too knows it’s bullshit but that somehow it all helps.
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 11:28 (six years ago) link
would def hang out with bukowskicat
maybe not so much with bukowski
― Occupation Propaganda dog (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 February 2018 11:33 (six years ago) link
when he dialled down the boorishness and machismo he could be an awesome writer of prose and poetry.
― calzino, Monday, 19 February 2018 11:42 (six years ago) link
more macho softies that liked cats (the one that didn't write the sun also rises is called snowball and was *squints* a pterodactyl) http://cms.mentalfloss.com/sites/default/files/styles/insert_main_wide_image/public/hemingway_cats.jpg
(actually if colour is anything to go by this isn't snowball)
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 11:54 (six years ago) link
inevitably: http://cms.mentalfloss.com/sites/default/files/styles/insert_main_wide_image/public/burroughs.jpg
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 11:55 (six years ago) link
tremendous stuff: http://images.mentalfloss.com/sites/default/files/styles/mf_image_3x2/public/twain_cats.jpg
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 11:56 (six years ago) link
He only had the friggin' dog for 5 years, the, er, big girl's blouse.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 19 February 2018 11:56 (six years ago) link
tough crowd
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 11:58 (six years ago) link
The poem on Boatswain not being by Byron - where's that from? I can only find the introductory lines being reattributed.
(Curious, because I fondly remember staring at Boatswain's tomb on an acid day out to Newstead Abbey.)
― woof, Monday, 19 February 2018 12:09 (six years ago) link
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epitaph_to_a_Dog
but reading more carefully i see that it's saying (or i think it;s saying) that the lines clazino q
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 12:30 (six years ago) link
wtf try again:
from wikipedia but reading more carefully i see that it's saying (or i think it's saying) that the lines that calzino quoted are by hobhouse, and the lines below it (on the inscription) are byron's viz: When some proud Son of Man returns to Earth,Unknown to Glory, but upheld by Birth,The sculptor’s art exhausts the pomp of woe,And storied urns record who rests below.When all is done, upon the Tomb is seen,Not what he was, but what he should have been.But the poor Dog, in life the firmest friend,The first to welcome, foremost to defend,Whose honest heart is still his Master’s own,Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone,Unhonoured falls, unnoticed all his worth,Denied in heaven the Soul he held on earth –While man, vain insect! hopes to be forgiven,And claims himself a sole exclusive heaven.
Oh man! thou feeble tenant of an hour,Debased by slavery, or corrupt by power –Who knows thee well, must quit thee with disgust,Degraded mass of animated dust!Thy love is lust, thy friendship all a cheat,Thy tongue hypocrisy, thy heart deceit!By nature vile, ennobled but by name,Each kindred brute might bid thee blush for shame.Ye, who behold perchance this simple urn,Pass on – it honours none you wish to mourn.To mark a friend’s remains these stones arise;I never knew but one -- and here he lies.
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 12:33 (six years ago) link
Consider the Brownings' dog Flush
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/70/FlushBiography.jpg
and of course Samuel Johnson's cat Hodge
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Hodgecat_flickr.jpg
― persona non gratin (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 19 February 2018 12:40 (six years ago) link
Boswell: "I never shall forget the indulgence with which he treated Hodge, his cat: for whom he himself used to go out and buy oysters, lest the servants having that trouble should take a dislike to the poor creature. I am, unluckily, one of those who have an antipathy to a cat, so that I am uneasy when in the room with one; and I own, I frequently suffered a good deal from the presence of this same Hodge. I recollect him one day scrambling up Dr. Johnson's breast, apparently with much satisfaction, while my friend smiling and half-whistling, rubbed down his back, and pulled him by the tail; and when I observed he was a fine cat, saying, "Why yes, Sir, but I have had cats whom I liked better than this;" and then as if perceiving Hodge to be out of countenance, adding, "but he is a very fine cat, a very fine cat indeed."
This reminds me of the ludicrous account which he gave Mr. Langton, of the despicable state of a young Gentleman of good family. "Sir, when I heard of him last, he was running about town shooting cats." And then in a sort of kindly reverie, he bethought himself of his own favourite cat, and said, "But Hodge shan't be shot; no, no, Hodge shall not be shot."
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 12:54 (six years ago) link
dunno if this one counts as a pet per se but here is félicette the astrocat, who was sent into space by the french space agency in 1963 and remains (iirc) the only spacefaring feline
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e0/Felicette%2C_spacecat.jpg/220px-Felicette%2C_spacecat.jpg
she survived her 15-minute journey to the heavens and on her return she was uh promptly put down so scientists could study the effects of space travel on her li'l kitty body
― Occupation Propaganda dog (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 February 2018 13:01 (six years ago) link
here she is catloafin', admittedly a bit uncomfortably, before making her trip
http://www.collectspace.com/images/news-111717a-lg.jpg
― Occupation Propaganda dog (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 February 2018 13:02 (six years ago) link
disappointed to find out because of this thread that Isaac Newton's pyromaniac dog Diamond is possibly apocryphal
― Big Ched aka The Cheesedriver (Noodle Vague), Monday, 19 February 2018 13:04 (six years ago) link
i give u stubbs the cat, honorary mayor of talkeetna, alaska from 1997 until his death last year
https://mediaassets.abc2news.com/photo/2017/07/24/poster_0654595f21fa4f53a8c38997953db8df_63308082_ver1.0_640_480.jpg
― Occupation Propaganda dog (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 February 2018 13:05 (six years ago) link
Culann the smith invites Conchobar to a feast at his house. Before going, Conchobar goes to the playing field to watch the boys play hurling. He is so impressed by Sétanta's performance that he asks him to join him at the feast. Sétanta has a game to finish, but promises to follow the king later. But Conchobar forgets, and Culann lets loose his ferocious hound to protect his house. When Sétanta arrives, the enormous hound attacks him, but he kills it in self-defence, in one version by smashing it against a standing stone, and in another by driving a sliotar (hurling ball) down its throat with his hurley. Culann is devastated by the loss of his hound, so Sétanta promises he will rear him a replacement, and until it is old enough to do the job, he himself will guard Culann's house. The druid Cathbad announces that his name henceforth will be Cú Chulainn—"Culann's Hound".[16]
― rum dmc (darraghmac), Monday, 19 February 2018 13:11 (six years ago) link
years later setanta, using his given name, recorded mega-smash 'smooth' with rob thomas of matchbox 20
― Occupation Propaganda dog (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 February 2018 13:13 (six years ago) link
Wow that's an ancient heritage of a proud people you're mocking there man
― rum dmc (darraghmac), Monday, 19 February 2018 13:24 (six years ago) link
you're right, i apologise if any matchbox 20 fans were offended by my previous post itt
― Occupation Propaganda dog (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 February 2018 13:33 (six years ago) link
https://goo.gl/images/ZxUt1e
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 19 February 2018 13:44 (six years ago) link
https://s10.postimg.org/c8ow8xdkp/slon2.jpg
The Romanovs had a pet elephant, which doesn't appear to have been named. The rest of St Petersburg society apparently thought it was a huge waste of money and made the royal family look frivolous.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Monday, 19 February 2018 13:50 (six years ago) link
The elephant was shot with the rest of the family.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Monday, 19 February 2018 13:51 (six years ago) link
steady on lads that's taking revolution a bit too far imo
― Occupation Propaganda dog (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 February 2018 13:52 (six years ago) link
Quite a task getting the elephant down to the basement.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 19 February 2018 14:01 (six years ago) link
credit where credit's due tho, it takes an especially brave revolutionary fighter to enclose himself in a basement with an angry elephant and try to shoot it enough times to kill it before it kills you
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 February 2018 14:04 (six years ago) link
http://www.estherbubley.com/images/large/life_moore_bird.jpg
To a Prize Birdby Marianne Moore
You suit me well, for you can make me laugh,nor are you blinded by the chaffthat every wind sends spinning from the rick.You know to think, and what you think you speakwith much of Samson's pride and bleakfinality, and none dare bid you stop.Pride sits you well, so strut, colossal bird.No barnyard makes you look absurd;your brazen claws are staunch against defeat.
(i think the cockatoo in the picture is actually from a zoo, rather than MM's: many of her poems are about animals)
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 15:07 (six years ago) link
félicette the astrocat, who was sent into space by the french space agency in 1963 and remains (iirc) the only spacefaring feline
Au contraire
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0839/5903/products/978163106361.jpg?v=1492119402
― persona non gratin (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 19 February 2018 18:12 (six years ago) link
vanilla ice and his pet kangaroo bucky buckaroo https://www.trend-chaser.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2016/12/012-vanilla-ice-has-a-real-life-kangaroo-768661.jpg
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 19:13 (six years ago) link
http://20.theladbiblegroup.com/s3/content/e542f2c65872d6e3c48cce5e62aab923.jpg
I was trying my best to resist posting the pic of Edmundo getting a monkey drunk, till now....
― calzino, Monday, 19 February 2018 19:18 (six years ago) link
is that from this excellent account?
Neymar having a nap with his dog pic.twitter.com/2d8mA3zb5a— Footballers with animals (@ftbllrswanimals) February 18, 2018
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 19:23 (six years ago) link
that’s an ape u savage xp
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 February 2018 19:25 (six years ago) link
Faustino Asprilla teaching his horse how to play football whilst dressed as a Tyrannosaurus rex pic.twitter.com/ldkRrPGtfe— Footballers with animals (@ftbllrswanimals) February 10, 2018
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 19:26 (six years ago) link
lol you just xped me!
No, but I saw that priceless one of Asprilla teaching a horse football, dressed as a dinosaur from that account, lol!
― calzino, Monday, 19 February 2018 19:28 (six years ago) link
braziian composer alberto ginastera: cat has just heard ELP's version of his piano concertohttps://www.ludwig-van.com/toronto/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/04/Ginastera.jpg
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 19:44 (six years ago) link
what a scene-stealer
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 February 2018 19:46 (six years ago) link
(AG once said the reason he stayed in buenos aires to compose was to be near the cat)
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 19:47 (six years ago) link
https://www.meisterdrucke.com/kunstwerke/500px/John%20Doyle%20-%20Le%20Mort%20George%20IV%20(1762-1830)%20caricature%20of%20the%20King%20grieving%20the%20death%20of%20the%20giraffe%20at%20London%20Zoo%20printed%20by%20J%20Netherclift%20and%20pub%20by%20McLean%201829%20London%20(hand-coloured%20engraving)%20-%20(MeisterDrucke-46248).jpg
In 1827 the then-viceroy of Egypt gave away three live specimens: one to King George IV of Britain, a second to Charles X of France and a third to Franz II, Emperor of Austria.
The giraffe that George IV was gifted suffered terrible leg injuries during transit and had a wretched 2 years in England and was barely mobile by the time she died. French caricature ripping into him above.
― calzino, Monday, 19 February 2018 19:55 (six years ago) link
Gérard de Nerval shown up in this thread yet?
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 19 February 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link
https://strangeflowers.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/simpsons_pinchy.jpg
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 20:00 (six years ago) link
http://kengarex.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/W0h1xUR.jpg
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 20:04 (six years ago) link
wanda gag, the author of millions of catshttp://kengarex.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/gQLBbVM-5.jpg
http://millionsofcats.weebly.com/uploads/9/2/7/1/9271119/1102127.png?1319741888
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 20:08 (six years ago) link
nutmeg reminded me of this thread and the venerable COCKY BENNETT (below): the very very very old parrot
http://images.smh.com.au/2011/08/31/2593473/cockybennett2729-420x0.jpg
― mark s, Friday, 23 February 2018 11:35 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CgVkb1TWQAEqPGF.jpg:large
― mark s, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 19:13 (six years ago) link
XP Millions of Cats is a hellish tale
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 19:15 (six years ago) link
trim the cat discovered australia
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Trim%2C_the_cat%2C_in_Donington%2C_Lincs_-_geograph.org.uk_-_218735.jpg/220px-Trim%2C_the_cat%2C_in_Donington%2C_Lincs_-_geograph.org.uk_-_218735.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 10:50 (six years ago) link
despite that tho i'm sure he was a good kitty
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 10:56 (six years ago) link
Firefighters rescue dog from #Telford house roof https://t.co/E6LS78evs7 #Shropshire pic.twitter.com/YzDdFSqcPJ— SHROPSHIRE (@DailySHROPSHIRE) February 26, 2018
― mark s, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 11:01 (six years ago) link
"Scorpion mating is highly stylized with a sequence of behaviors and mating is indirect, with themale producing an external spermatophore that he guides the female to pick up. In the commonstriped bark scorpion the female initiates the mating, making abrupt advances and retreats to apotential mate that it encounters. A receptive male then responds with a back and forth rockingmoving known as “juddering”. This is followed by “clubbing”, striking the other scorpion withthe tip of the abdomen, but without stinging. The scorpions then clasp each other with theirpedipalp claws and draw near enough to engage in a “cheliceral massage” - a scorpion version ofa kiss."
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 19:27 (six years ago) link
i’ll be in my bunk
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 19:30 (six years ago) link
scorpion erotic fiction
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 19:43 (six years ago) link
"Like his spiritual hero, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Robespierre retained an enduring affection for dogs. He delighted in their companionship, and after long days spent toiling in the National Convention, was often seen walking his beloved hound, Brount, through the Champs-Élysées in Paris. "
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 19:45 (six years ago) link
the day that (the seal's whiskers in the aquarium in) hel (in poland) froze over
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXIQAraXUAAeYq_.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 22:41 (six years ago) link
There’s a ‘famous’ cat in St. Andrews you used to see in the pubs all the time - there’s a statue to him now, but it looks so unlike him I wonder if I’m remembering the same cat.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 28 April 2018 13:52 (six years ago) link
Iannis Xenakis riding in a kayak with his dog. pic.twitter.com/t53RTJhFMR— composers doing normal shit (@NormalComposers) June 1, 2022
― mark s, Monday, 13 June 2022 21:05 (one year ago) link