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(8,217 posts)I like the heart and humor.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Is someone chopping onions in here?
Suich
(10,642 posts)Thanks for posting!
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)nt
Riftaxe
(2,693 posts)and an totally stuck on Labrador Retrievers for the last 30 years or so.
My brother went did heart surgery, and moved 1300 miles away to stick me with the cat from hell, just because in I do not like cats. (I think i got the cat to around 18 years old).
Someday when i get too old to move, it might be cat time or tiny cat like dog time, or an another dumb animal incapable of being useful
orleans
(34,073 posts)handmade34
(22,757 posts)for the smile
Iggo
(47,565 posts)Demeter
(85,373 posts)because it's too sad and scary for words.
If it is, you were damn lucky to get a chance to write it down.
LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)The comic was drawn for the 20th anniversary of the fire. Inman has the newspaper article about it posted at the link.
(I'm a huge fan of the Oatmeal)
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)It is sad, and it is scary, and his gift is finding words and images to express it.
Hope he's at the Green River Marathon tomorrow. I will be.
ChazInAz
(2,572 posts)I believe I owned Domino's ancestor in the Seventies. We named him Dumbo, because of his ears and his mental acuity. The little goof lived to be twenty, despite his best efforts at self-destruction.
Brecchhh...heh heh! Hee?
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)That kinda got to me too.
mnhtnbb
(31,402 posts)and our two kitties--Mouse and Simba--survived because every night we used to put them outside.
Simba would usually try to avoid getting grabbed to be put out by planting himself under the baby
grand piano. Someone would have to crawl under it to get him. We were all very glad hubby
did it that night.
And when we left the house--after calling the fire department--I deliberately left the front door open
to avoid a backdraft when the FD arrived. Sadly, even though they were there within 5 minutes of the call,
the house was already an inferno and they had to back out, go defensive, and work to keep the fire
from spreading. We had 59 firefighters there that morning at 4:30 am--from 3 counties--and they managed to keep
the house from burning to the ground. As a result? Several photo albums of our kids growing up survived.
Not much else. But we all got out: hubby, me, our youngest son still living at home, and our dog, Tanya.
The kitties showed up one and two days later. They'd been hiding out somewhere.
MADem
(135,425 posts)nikto
(3,284 posts)Which story do you prefer?
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)seaglass
(8,173 posts)baldguy
(36,649 posts)AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)is awesome!
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)mackerel
(4,412 posts)mwyn8
(84 posts)Hope to see more.
polly7
(20,582 posts)I laughed!, I cried (not really cried, but close!). That was amazingly well done.