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8. Cartoon Cats
Usually black and white. And they often have an amusing speech impediment. If your cat can read newspapers, it is a Cartoon cat. If it can get hold of a stick of dynamite by simply reaching off screen, it is a Cartoon cat. If it wears a bowtie, it's a Cartoon cat. If, when it starts to run, its legs pinwheel in the air for a humorous few seconds making binka-binka-binka noises, it is a Cartoon cat. If you are still uncertain, check to see whether the people next door have a bulldog called Butch who has spikes on his collar and is usually to be found dozing outside his kennel. If they have, you'll know what kind of cat you've got. --- The Unadulterated Cat, Pratchett and Jolliffe
I always thought ours was a Real Cat: He catches anything, his ears are getting tatty, he can hear the fridge opening.
But...
Usually black and white.
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If your cat can read newspapers, it is a Cartoon cat.
We don't have them - he studies computer screens though.
If it can get hold of a stick of dynamite by simply reaching off screen, it is a Cartoon cat.
He wishes he could
If it wears a bowtie, it's a Cartoon cat.
No.
If, when it starts to run, its legs pinwheel in the air for a humorous few seconds making binka-binka-binka noises, it is a Cartoon cat.
No, but has been known to spin his rear legs wildly while power sliding round corners
And the biggy Sir Pterry missed: He loves lasagne. Seriously: I made one last night and he spent three hours pestering me to give him some. No chance - it's securely locked in the Cat Safe (or "microwave" as it's known) for tonights supper.
My cat is Garfield in black-face make up. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Charlie don't surf, but our old cat did. On a small rug, down the corridor towards the front door. Alternatively she started a sprint upstairs on the same rug, usually just pushing back the rug and running on the spot the first few steps.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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We had a little black bastard who, in summer, would jump up on the pot belly stove, usually from about 2 metres away. Poor little sod did the same thing in winter when the fire was on.
Have you aver seen a cat try and change directions in mid leap, there was a scritch as he landed on his claw tips and bounced, still had very saw paws for a few day.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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:shudder:
We had a problem with Bill The Cat - he walked all over kitchen worktops, which I hate; it's unhygienic. But unless we could catch him, you can't stop him and all we had were his paw prints.
Until one day when I'm frying some meat: I've got a hot pan with oil, and I'm chopping the meat up when I catch out of the corner of my eye Bill jumping onto the cooker - and heading for the frying pan. Somehow (and I know not how, I must have started moving before my brain noticed what was happening and caught up) I managed to smack him in the tummy and throw him across the kitchen. One and only time I ever hit him more than a "finger bop" on the nose but there was nothing else I could do to prevent serious injuries.
He was fine - he creeped to me for an hour or so until he was sure I wasn't cross with him - but I felt terrible.
And he never went on the sides again.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: I felt terrible.
I understand you, but you probably saved its life and a lot of torture. I had a cat who jumped with all fours on the wood stove. In full Winter. 3 weeks bandagind his paws and feeding him because he couldn't walk. He got 100% ok luckily.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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I didn't know I was participating...
But apparently my MVVM for beginner[^] article won best article July 2016!
Yeeha! 
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well done 
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Thanks! 
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Congratulations!
I got second for DB - only my second prize ever - for an article I only wrote to save me time typing answers in QA! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Nice!
Good month for us!
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Excellent!
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Thanks!
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Grats! Where's the beer party?
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Coming soon, to a pub near you! :P
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I took 4 bottles already. You have alot to catch up 
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Super Lloyd wrote: I didn't know I was participating...
I've had that happen a couple times. And congrats, great job!
Marc
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Must have happened to you often Marc! ^_^
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Super Lloyd wrote: Must have happened to you often Marc!
Actually, I'm rather egotistic about my articles. I pretty much know when I've written something that will at least be in the competition. Now granted, I never actually write an article for the sake of being in the competition, but I do pretty much know when one has a good chance of making it.
And then I watch it.
Like a hawk circling above a clueless bunny.
Marc
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This is gold![^]
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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The question is, will the new McGyver series upgrade to FiberFix?
Marc
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Thanks! Everyone in the office is staring at me now! 
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The Center for Reading Research at the University of Ghent is making a vocabulary test[^].
Well it's obviously a bit of a survey aswell, it's a university after all.
I scored pretty well I believe, considering I'm not native.
Quote: You said yes to 73% of the existing words.
You said yes to 0% of the nonwords.
This gives you a corrected score of 73% - 0% = 73%.
This is a high level for a native speaker.
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Not good.
I read it as the center for Reading (town in Berkshire) research.
I think the capital letter threw me.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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