Comments on: Daily Mail, Daily Wail: Drinking Cat Piss

By: chenier

chenier — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:47:25 +0000

Does anybody?

I do wonder whether it was a big enough Bang for His buck?

By: Desperate Dan

Desperate Dan — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:41:14 +0000

You can bet that he didn’t buy it retail though…

By: chenier

chenier — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:31:39 +0000

Probably cursing the salesperson who sold it to Him…

By: Desperate Dan

Desperate Dan — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:19:57 +0000

Chenier,

I think He probably just lit the fuse, stood back and hoped for the best.

Much like the people in CERN really!

By: chenier

chenier — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:07:18 +0000

Thank you!

I realise that there is a time and a place for everything, but I would like to defer the time and possibly the place for as long as possible.

I wonder if God had this much trouble setting it up in the first place?

By: Desperate Dan

Desperate Dan — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:21:33 +0000

Chenier,

Don’t worry it is only a short trip and I will be back home on 3 October after the end of Ramadan.

It is my understanding that the LHC didn’t even to get into second gear before it went into meltdown. It seems it operates at around -260 degrees which means that it will have to be warmed up, repaired and recooled before it can be restarted. This will take about two months so you have time to consider your options.

I would suggest though that you stay where you are. London has got so bad that even a black hole probably wouldn’t go near it.

By: chenier

chenier — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:34:49 +0000

Magnetite

I keep trying to read articles on the crisis enveloping the world, or at least bits of the world, and then I find myself bunking off to think of puns.

I am being strong…

By: chenier

chenier — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:32:54 +0000

Desperate Dan

You’ve got me really worried now; was the Large Hadron Collider so scary that you decamped to the desert sands?

Without reporting back?

Let’s keep this simple.

I live in London; how many thousand miles do you recommend that I move?

By: magnetite

magnetite — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:21:46 +0000

“Waiter, this wine is caulked.”
“I’m not surprised. There was a ship in that bottle up until ten minutes ago.”

[Hugs whippet]

By: Desperate Dan

Desperate Dan — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:17:07 +0000

That’s spooky. Not quite but close.

36 degrees centigrade for those stupid enough to venture outside.

Mghrib (sunset) and the cocktail hour approach.

By: chenier

chenier — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:57:24 +0000

I didn’t know you lived in Dubai…

By: Desperate Dan

Desperate Dan — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:38:02 +0000

It wasn’t my terrasse it was yours.

Since they installed the new street lighting, three in the morning on my terrasse and I would get arrested.

By: chenier

chenier — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:30:41 +0000

I’m glad to see that you are getting into the spirit of things here at Anorkra, though I did spend some moments wondering just what part of your anatomy your terrasse is.

My current guess is that it’s the European version of a Troubled Asset…

By: Desperate Dan

Desperate Dan — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:23:15 +0000

Chenier,

You don’t need to cut their legs off.

Just leave a saucer of ethylene glycol (antifreeze) in your garden.

Cats find it sweet and tasty. After a few sips they die of renal failure within a few days and your beautiful vegetable garden will never be despoiled again.

And, of course, as they are dead they won’t wake you up by fornicating on your terrasse at three in the morning.

Oh joy!

By: chenier

chenier — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:50:03 +0000

So my attempt to short cats is doomed to failure then.

Just as well, really; I don’t think I could have gone through with cutting their little legs off…

By: Anorak

Anorak — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:32:11 +0000

Hurrah!

By: Persefoney

Persefoney — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:00:38 +0000

..bentonite clay is actually eaten (has loads of uses) for it’s generous mineral content. I think it’s a specific type of organic bentonite though. Whay were you reading the Wail anyway?

By: Desperate Dan

Desperate Dan — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 10:54:37 +0000

This headline is totally misleading and obviously deliberately so.

To go from the fact that bentonite, which is used in the fining process to clarify wine, is also used in the manufacture of cat litter and then to claim that wine therefore contains cat piss really is stretching things.

The good news is that most of the substances used to clarify wine are of animal origin and therefore out of bounds to vegetarians and vegans. There, that should reduce demand and push the price down for the rest of us.