If DU created some kind of app that allowed us loungers to text each other...

[LuckyCharms]

This would probably be what a typical text would look like.

[Farmer-Rick]

1. I don't get it

This reads more like what you would find at Musk's Twitter in 2023.

[LuckyCharms]

2. It's just nonsense...nothing more than that. n/t

[Scrivener7]

3. Bahahahah! Definitely. I feel this is an appropriate place to revive this from our venerable

annals of interesting personal anecdotes:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=624815

Can animals have sex with different animals?
My Uncle Leonard was a hermit that lived alone
in the woods in the mountains for many years. He
had a little money that he left to my sister and
left me a bicycle and drums and this animal that is
part wild and looks and acts like several type
of animals. I would say part dog, part cat and
the way it climbs part monkey. There is some kind
of wolverine or that kind of animal too in my opinion.
I am afraid to take it to the pound if it is illegal
and they take it. Leonard was a scary man to me and
I just don't want to immediately let it go even
though he is dead I just have this funny feeling
I would be in for bad things if I got rid of it.
I don't know why he left me it except that one time
I listened to him tell me the story of his life.
My sister and I were his only relatives. He didn't
have a will but told a neighbor what he wanted
left to who. I don't want to keep it in the house. I am
afraid if I left it outside it would climb over
this big wall we have around the house and hurt
somebody or even eat something. It weighs about
25 or 30 pounds, has stiff fur that is different
colors and lengths, makes sounds kind of like a
digging badger and if you pulled a rope or something
through a cardboard box. It has claws more like a
rodent. The tail is short and furry, but it could
have been broken off or cut off, it doesn't look right.
It doesn't really play, but it looks at you and then
looks awy when you look at it. It likes to root around
in the garden but it is winter and there's not too much
damage it can do out there.

[Wicked Blue]

5. Oh thank you

I've missed the Legend of Oscar

[intrepidity]

8. Never did see a pic of Oscar, did we?

Google Lens woulda nipped that thread in the bud.

Or did AS ever admit to it being a tall tale?

[Scrivener7]

9. NO! And I believe in Oscar! I do! I DO!

[Wicked Blue]

4. Nah, it would be

Kittens, kitties, puppies, puppers, pitties, cats, more kittens, wordle, kitties, pets, puppy, kitty, kitten, dog, doggie, kitten.

[Harker]

6. And doggo... and, my personal favorite... kitteh. n/t

[Midnight Writer]

7. Sumatran Rat-Monkeys have been around forever, as well as the Giant Rat of Sumatra.