...NEWER coke?...so that maaaakes:
Coke, Cherry Coke, Vanilla Coke, caffiene-free Coke, diet varieties of all-of-the-above and Diet Coke with Lemon.

Look, how much more choice do people WANT other than 'High-fructose corn syrup' or 'aspartame'?

But no, seems we need Coke-with-not-QUITE-as-much-HFCS-as-regular-but-I-don't-want
it-to-taste-all-chemically-like-Diet.
It's Neurotically Indecisive Coke ;)

Just looking at gallopin' B there...

Kitty-bowls!
So, if KK's is the little dainty pink Hello Kitty bowl, is the honking big bowl next to it Byron's trough? ;)

Mimi:
They used to have seperate bowls--and seperate food--but either one would always eat the other's over the food meant for them.

Hey, and Mimi, you forgot Diet Coke with Lime! (Something my neighbor drinks, which baffles me. I'll stick to Diet Pep as long as I'm in North America--I recall its U.K. incarnation as weird 'n icky.)

Ernst... :::sigh::: There are indeed some of us out here--in fact, some of us *!right*here!*--who would give quite a lot to be able to see HNIC on a remotely regular basis. Though yes, I can admit that your average Cali girl isn't exactly down with the entire oeuvre of Don Cherry (since when did I claim to be average?)...regardless, Go Flames!

Aha, we have discovered young Zeffy's secret identity--instead of being our own Rico Suave South, he's actually some guy named Ryan North! Well played, mi amigo... ;)

Kitty pictures! Thank you Bill! I will give you $8.00 dollars for Byron. I'll give you $20 if you throw KK into the deal.

Edited by author 05-27-2004 12:07 AM
Well, around here there are ads daring us to try the 'new' pepsi. i dunno, most mexicans are addicted to coke. is it called there 'coca-cola'? i can't remember, imagine. other fun spanish names: 'coca', 'coquita'.

Yes and no. i am not the genius Ryan north. i did the fan picture. i read the strip, and got the idea, and i wanted to do a full drawing of my own, but i feared someone else would think of it too and just photoshopped it. i plan to draw the scene later.

I'm so in love with byron's pantherish looks.

"given the hootin' and hollerin' that's going on in the corner via CBC's "Hockey Night in Canada (and a bit of Florida)" just now."

hahahahaha. ha. try mexico on for size. when there's the world cup, and mexico's playing, whole *neighborhoods* shake with the scream of 'gooooaaaaalll' roaring everywhere. and then the drunks everywhere, and the hollerin' and rioting.

Bill, i was reading the Burguer king entry at 1am last night. i hadn't laughed so much so late in a while.

There's a new Pepsi now?

Strangely, the classic glass Coke bottles are pretty common here. They're about a buck or so. Must be a regional thing.

Edited by author 05-27-2004 08:30 PM
Lilly: I'll trade you my hockey rights for some of those keen electric cars (damn, where'd I leave that phone number for the Faustian Bargain Centre?).

Zephiel: Hockey fans are annoying. Soccer fans are semi-biblical. You definitely win. Even when the Grey Cup (national CDN-rules football championship) was played here and won by the home team, all we had was traffic congestion. Soccer fans seem to have a little extra rage.

Bill: ..."sounds like a hard-boiled detective made of pocket fluff." Oddly enough, when engaged in writing for my brother's site, I'm looking for a tone somewhere between that (well, without the fluff aspect) and William Burroughs. Pretentious? Oh, yeah!

I find myself rather puzzled by the panic shoppers you describe on your site. I guess four feet of snow makes for a different mindspace than -40 temperatures (the magic place where C and F meet, right here in Regina, every winter!).

...And I COMPLETELY forgot to coo over the pictures. Huzzah for pretty cats! I wonder whether He of Many Toes will perform the same sort of bongo solo as our standard-toed tabby when the spot is waggled in small circles right in front of him?

Byron doesn't play bongos as much as he clog-dances.

Oh, Bill, you *know* how whenever I get a mention in the News, it makes my week, and when I get an actual **scan**? Oh man, draw a big red ring around the house! (It'll have be yours, being as I'm only a renter in an upstairs apartment.)

Still, all this and multitudes o' kitty pix too! I sent the link to my friend Deb in IM just now and she exclaimed at how big Kills has gotten (it's been a while since she's seen her) while pronouncing Byron "terminally adorable." (Oh, and Zefster, when telling her about you I related the sad tale of Kiwi's fate, and Deb sent "a karmic bitch slap" to the presumed poisoners.)

Ernst, dahlink, I'm afraid I have zilch access to cars electric and otherwise, as I'm currently a patron of the Modesto public transportation system (can't really say I agree with the Chinese girlfriend's paean to l'entire autobus experience at your brother's page, but maybe it's just a fundamentally more pleasant endeavor in Canada? In my experience most things are, and I'm not just saying that because codeine is legal over the counter there, either).

Still, should I suddenly become blessed with a fleet of electric cars, I'd more than welcome the opportunity to deliver one to Saskatchewan, mon ami. (How far are you from Langenburg? I have to make a pilgrimage there sometime...)

Langenburg? Hmm, lessee-- 144km to Melville, and then it's not more than 85km straight east. So, hardly a tittle in local reckoning, although I think in UK terms it's unspeakably distant. I'll leave it to your frame of reference to decide on "near". Of course, the existential part of me is still saying "Langenburg? Langenburg?!" Apart from the easternmost extent of the Yellowhead highway in this province, I don't see the attraction.

(Note to foreign listeners: "km" is short for "Kelvin Miles", a form of measure used exclusively in Western Canada based on multiples of the wavelength of middle C.)

The Ozy and Millie guy has a political strip now: http://www.idrewthis.org/

I get why Yankee speedometers have KPH readings on them. It's so we don't drift north or south of the Borders and think, "Speed limit's a HUNDRED? Well, everyone else seems to be driving slower....but, OKAY!" VROOM! CRASH!

But why are the only inroads that Metric has made here been so lame? Soda and liquor bottles, mainly. We used to have pints, fifths, quarts, and half gallons. Now we have 750s, liters, and the ungainly-named 1.75 liter. Oh, and the half-pints are 200ML, while the pints are 375ML. So 2 half-pints are more than a pint. Try explaining THAT to a drunk sometime.
And soda. One liter or 2 liter, but everything else is in ounces. And it's only soda and likker! Nobody in the US buys a liter of milk or OJ.
And the only place you see centigrade is on bank time & temperature signs. Why do I only need to know the C temp when I'm driving by a bank? Or the time, for that matter? And why only banks? Oil change places or hospitals don't have those signs--Why? And when it ceases to be a bank, why is the sign still there? There's a bank a mile from here that closed almost a decade ago, but ever since has decided to keep the busted sign that says that the temp is always "45," except for the other side, which insists that it's "-15" (it means "45," but a part of the sign is burned out). Why don't they just turn the damn sign off?
Possibly I think about stupid shit too much.

If the bank sign gives you the temp in centigrade, double it, subtract 10%, add 32, and you'll be within 1 degree of the Farenheit temp. That's the only mathematical formula I can do in my head.

All the 7-11 cups up here are printed in metric but have the US volumes, so you get a delightful .72l slurpee. Bhuh?

Of course, I was in grade 4 when the big metrification happened here, and thus can only think of distances in km, but my own hieght in ft/in. I blame the neighbours ;-)

...and down at the local, I can have a 20oz. pint of stout, or a 12oz. half-pint of cider...

I suck. I'm so sorry I forgot to come back and clarify that link on Kimmaugh, but yeah, they are "fans" of hers, somewhat in a loose use of the term. My bad. I was thinking of the Site that used to be up dedicated to Gonty.

Also, loved the cat pics, if you notice a spike in hits I put them on a board I go to. I only hotlinked one picture (sleeping on the stairs?) the rest are link-links to the pages/pics.

I had no idea cats got as big as your two... They're the size of dogs. Geez.