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Posted by kid a on September 27, 2002, at 14:06:22
It seems while I was away from the keyboard (afk for all you nerds out there llalrroroof on the ground out loud and whatnot)... My cat registered an account on psychobabble.I don't know how he got through the long questionaire being A) he's a cat, B) that questionaire is damned hard, and C) he was a little blitzed on Catnip...
We'll he stirred up some trouble on the bookclub board trying to praise the greatness of L. Ron Hubbard, and saying that all "non-believers" or infidels as he likes to say would perish in a ball of flame glued to a dynamite stick and then sticky-taped to a suicide bomber...
When I got back to the comp, this was on the screen:
http://home.cfl.rr.com/discostud/kittyblock.jpg
I'm really sorry for all the trouble he caused, and I'm going to try to limit his net access to the AOL hottub room from now on...
I'd make him appologize personally but he's in his cat-hutch now sulking, listening to "It's My Party" by Lesley Gore over and over... teenagers!
Posted by Mal on September 27, 2002, at 14:14:05
In reply to my Kitty was a *bad* kitty on psychobabble (look), posted by kid a on September 27, 2002, at 14:06:22
I am laughing with tears! Good one!!
Posted by IsoM on September 27, 2002, at 14:21:00
In reply to my Kitty was a *bad* kitty on psychobabble (look), posted by kid a on September 27, 2002, at 14:06:22
Posted by SandraDee on September 27, 2002, at 16:51:13
In reply to Ah kid- I love you-thanku-thanku-thanku-thanku (nm) » kid a, posted by IsoM on September 27, 2002, at 14:21:00
Posted by alii on September 27, 2002, at 16:51:29
In reply to Ah kid- I love you-thanku-thanku-thanku-thanku (nm) » kid a, posted by IsoM on September 27, 2002, at 14:21:00
Posted by Tabßitha on September 28, 2002, at 2:06:02
In reply to my Kitty was a *bad* kitty on psychobabble (look), posted by kid a on September 27, 2002, at 14:06:22
Posted by Jonathan on October 20, 2002, at 0:33:56
In reply to my Kitty was a *bad* kitty on psychobabble (look), posted by kid a on September 27, 2002, at 14:06:22
Kid A,
I think your cat has now cracked Dr. Bob's password and is using it to post adverts for "Hello Kitty" calendars: isn't using these boards to promote commercial products like this against the rules? Until now the offending posts (six at the last count) have only appeared on the Tele board — http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/tele/index.html — which we humans have all but abandoned to cyberspace's growing population of stray cats.
Was he also responsible for that mischievous post on the Meds board, which advised someone seeking medication for ailurophobia to take massive doses of Dr Fischbürpf's™ omega-3 oil? Or that unsupportive (yet disturbingly logical) one-liner in the thread about SSRI sexual side-effects "If you had your cat spayed or neutered you don't deserve orgasms"? Or the post on the "Psycho" board which claims that the therapeutic benefits of swimming with dolphins are overrated? The last goes on to say that, since cats, unlike dolphins, are too intelligent to waste their energy swimming with humans, if we insist on swimming with one of the many species more intelligent than ourselves why don't we try electric catfish? (Malapterus electricus — http://members.fortunecity.com/anemaw/catfish.htm — see also "http://home.vicnet.net.au/~mhlc/ect.html — scroll down to Contents and click on "History of ECT".)
I have a similar problem: I suspect that my neighbour's cat may know something about some out-of-character posts in my name, which I have no recollection of having written. This one, for example, looks like a random walk across the keyboard — http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20020908/msgs/30115.html — but if you view the html source with Notepad (or any text editor), replace
content='text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"' /> (at the end of the 5th line) with
content="text/html; charset=Windows-1251" />
then save the file (as something.html) and view what you've just saved with your web browser, you may recognise the opening sentence of "Anna Karenina" — see, for example, http://www.cornellcollege.edu/russian/exercises/reading/annak.html .Now, I would NEVER quote from this masterpiece of pre-revolutionary Russian literature (especially without attribution) because ignorant readers might think that I — and by implication Dr. Bob because this is his site — am actually advocating suicide, or marital infidelity, or the hypocrisy that the latter is acceptable for men but not for women; even though my moral philosophy, like Tolstoy's, is opposed to all three. The sentence cited is additionally offensive because of its denigratory and unfounded assertion about happy families: I've just run a Medline search covering all reputable, peer-reviewed psychological journals; it failed to find a scrap of published empirical evidence that they are all the same.
Another unacceptable (albeit ingeniously pangrammatic) sentence from the same post describes the dog, over which the quick brown fox jumps, with the pejorative adjective "lazy". In addition to its obvious incivility to the canine species, I find this personally offensive to me and other anergic depressives: our sloth-like symptoms are often mistaken for laziness.
Fortunately, I have just found a solution to our problem:
http://www.bitboost.com/pawsense/2000-12-10--accessmag--001-001.jpg
http://www.bitboost.com/pawsense/Disclaimer: This is a real commercial product, which I haven't yet tried; even if I had, I wouldn't break the rules by endorsing it here.
Claimer: On the other hand, it won the IgNobel Prize for Computer Science a couple of years ago — http://www.improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html#ig2000 — and the web site advertising it amused me; I hope it makes you smile, too :)Jonathan.
Posted by IsoM on October 20, 2002, at 2:21:47
In reply to Re: Hello Kitty » kid a, posted by Jonathan on October 20, 2002, at 0:33:56
I certainly enjoyed your post, Jonathan, & the work you did finding some interesting links to include in it. A nice big smile - thank you !!
Posted by Jonathan on October 20, 2002, at 13:14:37
In reply to Re: Hello Kitty » Jonathan, posted by IsoM on October 20, 2002, at 2:21:47
> I certainly enjoyed your post, Jonathan, & the work you did finding some interesting links to include in it. A nice big smile - thank you !!
I'm so glad you enjoyed it. It's something I started to write a fortnight ago, just after Kid A's post appeared, but I was going through a very bad patch then and (like so many of my intended posts) it looked to me as if it would never develop into something that anyone could conceivably wish to read.
Dr. Bob's mysterious "Hello Kitty" posts on the Tele board seemed like a perfect excuse to revive it and get it finished and posted. They reminded me at first of one of Spike Milligan's jokes: a man lost his dog so he put an advert in the local newspaper; the ad read "Here boy!"
Greetings from a fellow cat-lover to all your kitties =^..^=
and thanks for teaching me that superb ascii cat!Jonathan :)
Posted by dreamerz on October 20, 2002, at 13:34:22
In reply to You're welcome :) » IsoM, posted by Jonathan on October 20, 2002, at 13:14:37
Posted by Jonathan on October 20, 2002, at 17:53:22
In reply to Re: ah..now I get it (nm), posted by dreamerz on October 20, 2002, at 13:34:22
Six identical posts, all apparently by "Dr. Bob", saying
testing "hello kitty"
The words "hello kitty" were a hyperlink to a calendar available from Amazon.com.
Perhaps the naughty kitty decided to delete them before the real Dr. Bob found out?
Posted by IsoM on October 21, 2002, at 14:06:28
In reply to Those «Hello Kitty» posts *WERE* on the Tele board, posted by Jonathan on October 20, 2002, at 17:53:22
I know they were, Jonathan. I checked every link out you gave on a lark. But I'm extremely worried now. You see when Bob first had those Hello Kitty links as test posts, I didn't give it any significance - just something to link to for purpose of checking things. But now, Bob's removed them all.
What's he trying to hide. Is he secretly fixated on Hello Kitty trivia? Why the need to remove any connections? Didn't Bob say that once somebody posted (& it's not offensive), it stays & won't be removed? Is there some unhealthy conspiracy here? ^_*
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