By the way, have you ever noticed that one of the exceptions to the "i before e, except after c" rule is weird.
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This post is for my own personal record as much as anything.
He was diagnosed hyperthyroid in 2011 and chronic kidney failure some years later.
He had a good run and died on his own in a reasonably comfortable manner, while at the vet clinic. As good of an ending as I could have hoped for. Probably chalk it up to heart failure.
For me, I'm calling it a happy-sad day.
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Added by edit - I've once again made my avatar (for now) one that includes Marvin - He's on the far right. That photo was from back in 2015, so he would have been 16 then.
The far left (back) is Munchkin, currently 10 years. In the middle is Teddy. currently 13 years.
To answer the Phat question from the next message, now down to 4 cats.
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Professor, geology, Whatsamatta U Evolution - Changes in the environment, caused by the interactions of the components of the environment.
"Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss on your computer." - Bruce Graham
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." - John Kenneth Galbraith
"Yesterday on Fox News, commentator Glenn Beck said that he believes President Obama is a racist. To be fair, every time you watch Glenn Beck, it does get a little easier to hate white people." - Conan O'Brien
"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable." - John Kenneth Galbraith
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"I know a little about a lot of things, and a lot about a few things, but I'm highly ignorant about everything." - Moose
By the way, have you ever noticed that one of the exceptions to the "i before e, except after c" rule is weird.
No I hadn't, what is it? Wrong thread for this, but this reminds of an old I Love Lucy show:
Elocution expert: Now beside "okay," I want you all to promise me that there are two words that you will never use. One of these is "swell," the other one's "lousy."
Speaking of sense, there's science, another (sort of) violation of the "i after e, except after c" rule. I guess science gets a pass since the "i" and "e" are in separate syllables.
By the way, have you ever noticed that one of the exceptions to the "i before e, except after c" rule is weird.
No I hadn't, what is it?
quote:"i" before "e" except after "c", or when pronounced as "eh" as in "neighbor" and "weigh".
This video from LangFocus, Why Is English Spelling So Damn Weird?!, might hold some clues:
The rest of that episode of "I Love Lucy" contains classic scenes. Such as Lucy having Ricky read a bedtime story out loud and it contains words with "-ough" which is pronounced differently every time. Or the tutor's exercise of pronouncing English vowels in the typically weird English way and when it comes to Ricky's turn he pronounces them in the normal Spanish manner: "Where did you learn that?" "Havana, Cuba. What's your excuse?"
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Wrong thread for this, but this reminds of an old I Love Lucy show: