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1. 7 magnetite says:
   September 19th, 2008 at 4:57 pm

   I was a cheap copyreader for a while - about six weeks - for a local paper that usually ran out of real news after page four. I’m sure they made up their own horoscopes ’cause they were too tight to buy syndicated ones. The canteen was cheap though. I was piss-poor at it, so this isn’t a job application. I’m a full-time broken-down mumdad/dadmum anyway.

   Pam, people deny the existence of big cats and wildcats here too. I say if their little cuddly cousins can squeeze into shoeboxes and under doors; and hide in the kitchen for days while we wander around the house like f**king iditots calling a name they only take notice of when they want to - then the big ‘uns can hunt in even small sections of sparse tundra undiscovered by us clumping humans and our obvious scent forever. I call real, but that might be because I like them puddy-tats. Always have. Don’t try having twelve unless you live on a main road to keep the numbers down. Too far from a road for cats now. Got big gallumphin’ mutts - the idiot sons I never had.

2. 6 chenier says:
   September 19th, 2008 at 4:17 pm

   It depends what your view on flying pigs, as opposed to invisible cows, is:

   ‘Pig Racing and Diving show of the 2008 Royal Melbourne Show at the Melbourne Showgrounds in Australia.’

   There is a picture to go with it but I can’t see how to paste it; the Vista Update package appears to have rendered my laptop more or less useless…

3. 5 firestar says:
   September 19th, 2008 at 4:12 pm

   reader even.

4. 4 firestar says:
   September 19th, 2008 at 4:11 pm

   i didn’t know hawaii was in continental europe.

   come to think, apart from anoraks spelling, i think they have a bit of cheek saying sarah and michael palin can’t point to iraq on a map.

   i know a cheap copywriter if you need one, but my caps shift doesn’t work.

5. 3 Pam says:
   September 19th, 2008 at 2:20 pm

   And on the other side of the US, ghost cats:

   Va. town tries to prove existence of ‘ghost cats’
   By DENA POTTER – 1 hour ago

   BLACKSTONE, Va. (AP) — Like some other residents of this small town, Mary Elizabeth Goodwyn doesn’t go outside after dark much anymore.

   Goodwyn, 81, used to welcome the dusk under a red maple tree in her front yard every evening, but that was before cougars started showing up in Blackstone — at least in the local newspaper.

   Since 2003, the Courier-Record has run at least 15 stories on cougar sightings in town and in the neighboring 41,000-acre Army National Guard training base.

   Wildlife officials say that except for a known population of 100 in Florida, the large cats — also called mountain lions, pumas, panthers and the fitting “ghost cats” — were wiped out in the eastern United States by 1900. They claim sightings most likely are cases of mistaken identity — perhaps a bobcat, deer or even a Labrador retriever.

   “The sense I get is there are a number of game commission people laughing, and that bothers me a bit because we’ve got good people here who aren’t crazy,” said Billy Coleburn, who as editor of the paper wrote most of the stories.

   –AP–

6. 2 dairy says:
   September 19th, 2008 at 2:14 pm

   …if the rest of us have to wear health and safety dayglo crap, why can’t the cows..?

7. 1 magnetite says:
   September 19th, 2008 at 2:05 pm

   I do like the ‘do not litter’ notice above the sign. Does that include your teeth, internal organs and windscreen glass when you inevitably hit one of these invisible cows?

   “Sir, you are littering the public highway by lying here embedded in the side of this dead animal. You’ll have to come with me.”

   [The best part is, invisible or not, most people will be too busy watching the skies there anyway - what with the observatory - so the cows could be neon and equipped with horns; an astronomer would still hit one of 'em eventually. You know what they're like. Then the ambulanceman can ask if he's seeing stars.]

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