Sometimes I just crack me up...

Do you ever talk to your pets?

Sure you do. We all do. It's human nature to anthropomorphize lots of things. Cars. Plants. And pets. We're really bad about it with our pets.

I have this cat, Spaz, who likes to hang out on the "back porch" (a small balcony, three floors up). When it's time for him to check out his kingdom from this perch, he whines and talks and carries on like, well like a cat who really, really wants to go outside (if you've ever been around a cat in this frame of mind.⁽¹⁾, you know exactly what I mean).

So, I let him out for a little while. And then I brought him back in, somewhat to his chagrin.

Now, here's why I crack me up....

When he came in, he started "explaining" to me just why it is that he should be outside surveying the vastness of his kingdom. To which I responded:

"Nope. You're done. You can't go out. I have work to do upstairs. Done. Nada. Nope."

"Meow-meee-eeewwww-mrowl-mmrrrrrr-owww," says Spaz, unconvinced. (yes, Spaz and I have actual conversations, where we take turns "speaking." It tends to compound the anthropomorphic dilemma)

To this I replied, resolute in my decision, "No, Dude. You're not going out. Done. Nuh-uh. Done. What part of 'done' do you not...."

And that's where I lost it.

Laughing out loud at myself, I say to him: "pretty much all of it.... There's no part of 'done' that do you understand." More laughter.

After all, he is only a cat and doesn't understand a word I say -- despite the many "conversations" we've had over the years. Despite the years of treating him like he's some language challenged, very short, very fuzzy human, who purrs like a freight train and... did I mention the fuzz?

⁽¹⁾ "Frame of mind?" Can a cat have a "frame of mind?" More anthropomorphizing, methinks

We don't need no stinking.... whatever!

I've always been a fan of the Blazing Saddles line "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!" Classic Mel Brooks Humor (is his humor "classic??"). It's especially funny (at least to me), if you're familiar with the original scene from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

Here's a site that did all the leg work to let me to find the myriad references to the reference: Stinking Badges Home Page.

What's funny about this is that the The Treasure of the Sierra Madre lines were parodied in Blazing Saddles, but the "original" The Treasure of the Sierra Madre lines are even different than the truly original lines from the book.

Does that make these references parodies of a parody of a variation on the original?

Good fun.

Isn't this pretty?

This is coming along so very nicely, don't you think?

If you'd care to comment, feel free

I hate spam... except when it's poetic

I found this site at blogger.com. It's cute.

I despise spam, but here's someone who's turned a terrible blight into something amusing: she writes Spam Poetry

http://www.sperare.com/spam_poetry/blogger.html

Enjoy!

Disgust and embarrassment win the day....

So, as can be seen by the delay since my last post, I don't get 'round to this WebLog thing very much....

Today begins the Great tdfunk.com Site Rebuild.

Some friends of mine came to this site to see the pictures of my fat cat. I've never really liked the format of this site and their traipsing around the nooks and crannies of this digusting mess was more than I can stand. I've been shamed in to putting a new face on my site.

So be it.

Thus begins the "fun..."