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*waits for inevitable "catatonia" jokes*
Thing is--all jokes aside--there are two forms of catatonia, and this cat is displaying almost classic examples of the stupor type. Check it out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catatonia
I've seen footage of people in this condition, and it's downright eerie. They'll be doing perfectly fine, and then something will cause them to just freeze in place. They'll react to immediate stimuli like touch, but if they're left on their own their eyes will dry out and they'll starve if someone doesn't intervene, or until the spell ends.
It could possibly be some sort of absent seizure, too. Not all seizures are the flopping-around-on-the-floor type. (Those are called tonic-clonic or grand-mal seizures, BTW...)
--TwoDragons
Thing is--all jokes aside--there are two forms of catatonia, and this cat is displaying almost classic examples of the stupor type. Check it out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catatonia
I've seen footage of people in this condition, and it's downright eerie. They'll be doing perfectly fine, and then something will cause them to just freeze in place. They'll react to immediate stimuli like touch, but if they're left on their own their eyes will dry out and they'll starve if someone doesn't intervene, or until the spell ends.
It could possibly be some sort of absent seizure, too. Not all seizures are the flopping-around-on-the-floor type. (Those are called tonic-clonic or grand-mal seizures, BTW...)
--TwoDragons
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Sorry about the hunger pangs, y'all! Trust me, I'm five months pregnant and my appetite is virtually bottomless, to say the least of the almost psychoses-inducing cravings I've been dealing with! I'm heroically resisting the urge to grab my husband by the short hairs and drag him to the nearest Italian restaurant for several platters of battered squid!
(...and that would be after happily downing a kiddie-pool full of tzatziki for appetizers, tossing in several dozen toasted ravioli, and then it's off to the vat of chicken ramen with cream cheese diced up in it. Then polish it all off with a boatload of mocha ice cream with dark chocolate sauce...and a few bites of watermelon.)
--TwoDragons
(...and that would be after happily downing a kiddie-pool full of tzatziki for appetizers, tossing in several dozen toasted ravioli, and then it's off to the vat of chicken ramen with cream cheese diced up in it. Then polish it all off with a boatload of mocha ice cream with dark chocolate sauce...and a few bites of watermelon.)
--TwoDragons
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Tartar is the sauce. Tartare is minced raw steak. ;-)
And tartar and thousand island are for the kiddie table. Give me a good, rich, robust marinara sauce. Or a nice, tangy cocktail sauce with a good dose of hot horseradish. Yummmmmmmm...
--TwoDragons
And tartar and thousand island are for the kiddie table. Give me a good, rich, robust marinara sauce. Or a nice, tangy cocktail sauce with a good dose of hot horseradish. Yummmmmmmm...
--TwoDragons
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Ahhh, Simon's Cat and a nice mug of coffee. Perfect to wake up to!
--TwoDragons
--TwoDragons
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60%...but then, I haven't had my coffee yet. And I clicked #9 before I'd read all the answers. @#$%^& trick questions!!!
Man, I miss that show...has anyone here besides me checked out RiffTrax yet? It's not the same, but the flavor is similar enough to satisfy your fix.
MOVIE SIGN!!!!! Hee!
--TwoDragons
Man, I miss that show...has anyone here besides me checked out RiffTrax yet? It's not the same, but the flavor is similar enough to satisfy your fix.
MOVIE SIGN!!!!! Hee!
--TwoDragons
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"Oh Great Frigidaire, Give Me This Day My Daily Tuna..."
--TwoDragons
--TwoDragons
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I love absinthe, and I've had everything from Absente to the full-on real-deal Pernod. There's even thujone mixers you could get online pre-ban-lift that turned your Absente into the high-octane type. The ban was lifted shortly after I found out I was pregnant, so I can't enjoy the fruits of such libation liberation...otherwise I'd probably have a bottle in my cabinet right now.
So far, the only thing I can report after having imbibed them, is that I end up with slight to moderate stomach cramps the next morning (with or without a hangover,) and a noticeably heightened appetite. Colors are brighter too. But I can't really qualify that as a buzz per se, because 1. It isn't during the actual drinking experience, it's after the alcohol wears off, and 2.) it doesn't "feel" like a buzz, you're not dizzy or relaxed or wired or prone to hallucinating. The alcohol definitely gives you one heck of a buzz--three cocktails was my limit during my heavy-drinking days--and the anise would make your lips and tongue so numb that you started sounding like you were on novocaine. But other than that, I had no impulse to commit murder or cut off my ear, so I never understood what the big deal was about.
I think the reason for the large number of pre-20th-century absinthe drinkers who supposedly went froot-loopy was because some of the less-reputable makers tended to adulterate the mix with such lovely stuff as opiates, to "heighten" the effects.
--Twodragons
So far, the only thing I can report after having imbibed them, is that I end up with slight to moderate stomach cramps the next morning (with or without a hangover,) and a noticeably heightened appetite. Colors are brighter too. But I can't really qualify that as a buzz per se, because 1. It isn't during the actual drinking experience, it's after the alcohol wears off, and 2.) it doesn't "feel" like a buzz, you're not dizzy or relaxed or wired or prone to hallucinating. The alcohol definitely gives you one heck of a buzz--three cocktails was my limit during my heavy-drinking days--and the anise would make your lips and tongue so numb that you started sounding like you were on novocaine. But other than that, I had no impulse to commit murder or cut off my ear, so I never understood what the big deal was about.
I think the reason for the large number of pre-20th-century absinthe drinkers who supposedly went froot-loopy was because some of the less-reputable makers tended to adulterate the mix with such lovely stuff as opiates, to "heighten" the effects.
--Twodragons
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Just imagining all the crusted food that would get stuck inside those letters, gives me psychosomatic ptomaine poisoning... I'll stick (pardon the pun) with the good old sharp pointy original, thanks.
--TwoDragons
--TwoDragons
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Massive pregnancy hormones...
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Cute picture of baby...
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Can someone please mop me up? I appear to have melted from the cute. :-)
Seriously, Alex. If you don't get that pic blown up and framed, you are doing your family a huge disservice!
--TwoDragons
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Cute picture of baby...
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Can someone please mop me up? I appear to have melted from the cute. :-)
Seriously, Alex. If you don't get that pic blown up and framed, you are doing your family a huge disservice!
--TwoDragons
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Why does a Canadian have Texas on his left bicep?!
We're only zombies when we haven't had enough coffee... :-P
--TwoDragons
We're only zombies when we haven't had enough coffee... :-P
--TwoDragons
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--TwoDragons