October 10, 2008


Found

Today. In the cat’s litter box.

A chess piece. A white knight.

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31 Responses to “Found”

  1. Sheila Ryan on October 10th, 2008 at 2:07 pm

    Tossed there, by the bye. Not otherwise deposited. But it did call to mind that line of Hamlet’s re: the corpse of Polonius and how “we fat ourselves for maggots”:

    Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar.

  2. Andricon on October 10th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
  3. Sheila Ryan on October 10th, 2008 at 3:13 pm

    I learned something new today! Damn! Thanks.

  4. Mike Dresser on October 10th, 2008 at 3:43 pm

    Was there a, um, dark piece three over, one up?

  5. Sheila Ryan on October 10th, 2008 at 3:47 pm

    I really shoulda checked . . .

    I really shoulda checked before . . .

    Oh, hell, I can’t think of any reply that is not at least a triple entendre.

    Chess. Sex. And . . .

    Oh, count yourselves fortunate I didn’t snap and post a photo.

  6. Phil Bebbington on October 10th, 2008 at 3:54 pm

    Andricon, If I hadn’t been so excited by the prospect I might have blushed! Not sure about the king. Perhaps a bishop. That mitre seems a tad more accommodating I must say.

    Sheila, I’m always disappointed when you don’t post photos although this may be way beyond the call of duty.

  7. Amanda Mae Meyncke on October 10th, 2008 at 5:59 pm

    Oh yeah, Checkmate.

  8. Brandon Hobson on October 10th, 2008 at 6:39 pm

    Are you sure it wasn’t white cat shit? Maybe the cat played and pawed and molded it into a chess piece?

  9. Sheila Ryan on October 10th, 2008 at 7:01 pm

    Like white chocolate, eh?

  10. Lucy on October 10th, 2008 at 9:39 pm

    It’s a gauntlet. You know what you must do.

  11. Sheila Ryan on October 10th, 2008 at 9:50 pm

    Yep. And I generally do.

  12. Tracy on October 11th, 2008 at 6:58 am

    Perhaps related -

    Found in the dog’s water bowl: cat litter. blech!

  13. Lucy on October 11th, 2008 at 7:01 am

    Oh they love that stuff. I’ve got a bunch of eager sheepshiteaters over here.

  14. Sheila Ryan on October 11th, 2008 at 9:47 am

    “Eager sheepshiteaters.” The dogs? — or those vaguely idiotic-looking guys with grins on their faces?

  15. Alek on October 11th, 2008 at 10:01 am

    or both? sheepshite’s got to be tastier than cat litter

  16. Sheila Ryan on October 11th, 2008 at 10:08 am

    There is such a thing as kaolin-specific pica, so it could well be both.

  17. Phil Bebbington on October 11th, 2008 at 10:09 am

    well in litter at least there is an element of roughage…sheepshite surely is gonna leave a nasty film on your teeth….and lets not begin to discuss the after taste next morning!

    …and in any case…what is it with dogs! Cats don’t do it yet dogs….if they’re not rolling in other animals shit they are eating it

  18. Phil Bebbington on October 11th, 2008 at 10:10 am

    Sheila is that vaguely idiotic-looking guys with grins on their faces or vaguely idiotic-looking guys with grins on their faeces?

  19. Phil Bebbington on October 11th, 2008 at 10:12 am

    Yea, I remember eating chalk as a kid but that was generally my teacher throwing it at me for not paying attention!

  20. Lucy on October 11th, 2008 at 10:54 am

    Ok ok, christ, I take a half hour in the Outside World I come back to a world of sheepshit speculation. Well I meant my flock of hound dogs here, yes, in the most literal sense. They are all very keen sheepshit eaters and foxshit rollers. The small yappy one got covered in fox shit the other day and so to avoid him having the neglected look (I am, after all, charged with his care while his owners are away) I washed him in ecofriendly shampoo and he is fluffy and white again, but he still reeks of fox shit. Over the course of the afternoon, it turned to the aroma of smokey bacon crisps. I hope this helps.

  21. Sheila Ryan on October 11th, 2008 at 11:04 am

    You’ll find that there are those of us prone to that. Wait till your back is turned and then go to it. But yes, it does help. Especially the bit about the aromatic transformation from fox shit to smokey bacon crisps.

    As my mother used to say, “Honey, the other children wouldn’t tease you if they didn’t like you.”

  22. Lucy on October 11th, 2008 at 11:13 am

    Yes except that in this case, the other dogs understand deeply that yappy is a Piece of Work, and they sigh deeply when they are allowed to be away from him. It is hard for them, hard for yappy, I am acclimatising. I will keep you updated about any further aromatic progressions.

  23. Phil Bebbington on October 11th, 2008 at 12:10 pm

    Technically I an inept but is there any way on Clusterflock we can activate scratch and sniff? The science is there right?

  24. Lucy on October 11th, 2008 at 12:18 pm

    Phil, the science is right there, in our hearts.

  25. Amanda Mae Meyncke on October 11th, 2008 at 12:25 pm

    Fox Shit is a song I wrote this afternoon. Yes, it is morning, but it’ll be done by tonight.

  26. Lucy on October 11th, 2008 at 12:26 pm

    Dude, if you email it to me, I will teach it to yappy. It wil help us all get through these dark days.

  27. Phil Bebbington on October 11th, 2008 at 12:28 pm

    Lucy, I guess it’s all about belief right?

    Amanda Mae, you practically have me salivating in anticipation, not a pretty sight in men of a certain age. I shall contain my excitement by drinking the finest wines known to humanity…unless others have any suggestions?

  28. Lucy on October 11th, 2008 at 12:41 pm

    Phil, here’s an article about emailable smells. It requires complicated synthesising contraptions though, which really defeats the purpose. And I doubt that it contains either eau de renard merde, or Smoky Bacon Beckham, in its repertoire, sadly. http://www.nytimes.com/idg/IDG_002570DE00740E1800257425001B1F2B.html

  29. Alek on October 11th, 2008 at 2:51 pm

    phil - get yourself a dog and you won’t need to be downloading olfactory delights off the net

    dogs are zen

  30. Phil Bebbington on October 11th, 2008 at 3:29 pm

    Thanks Lucy but yea you know that they’ll never have the smells you want, I’d need access to cut grass and the smell of vinegar on chips.

    Alek, I can barely take care of myself, I dare not take on a dog. I just about manage a cat largely because I think he takes care of me!

  31. Le Doode Foxe : clusterflock on October 11th, 2008 at 3:51 pm

    [...] and I took on orchestration of a song about Fox… defecation, and mine is sort of a jazzy little number, while you may recognize large portions of Mike’s [...]

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