Joemala: Episode 32

by | Jul 7, 2021 | Joemala | 163 comments

 

“Of course JFK Jr. is alive,” Joe mumbled.

“What’s that, Grandpa?” Finnegan asked, wiping his face.

“JFK Jr. is alive,” he said more forcefully. “We were going to run him ag-ag-against Bush Jr. in 2000, but Frankenstein Al bullied his way onto the ticket.”

“OK, I need you to lift up your bottom a bit,” she said, wrestling with the harness seat in the jacuzzi tub. She was stripped down to her underwear and sweating, cursing that she had to do this alone, already soaked.

“Jr. vs. Jr.!” Joe said, waving for a flourish and smacking Finnegan in the face. “Two political dynasties locked in a generational battle for the soul of America!”

Finnegan pulled herself out of the tub and strapped Joe’s arms down. “I’m going to get you out now, Grandpa.”

“OK, dear,” Joe said.

Finnegan used the patient transfer system to lift Joe out of the tub, his gray hide sluicing away sudsy water as it broke the surface of the Once and Future Presidental Hot Tub Grande Royale like some starveling whale calf. Finnegan used the showerhead to rinse off his bent and gnarled body, his mottled flesh, and labial folds of loose skin.

“Your Grandma had the best body of any woman I ever saw,” Joe says, his arm on Finnegan’s shoulder as she swung him away from the tub and lowered him into his shower seat. “Like a Playboy bunny.”

“Yes, Dr. Grandma is very pretty,” Finnegan murmured and she dried him, trying to ignore his slow erection.

“No, not her, your real Granma, Neilia,” Joe said.

“Oh. She’s beautiful in all the pictures you’ve shown me,” she said.

“She was my sensuous lover. No one will ever have what we had. No matter how tired I was from campaigning, I always had a Big Biden Bone to feed her when I got home.”

“Yuck, Grandpa, just yuck.”

“I could marry you off to JFK Jr. if you want. That wife of his really is dead. Her teeth and nose just kept growing. It was horrible. I’ve seen the pictures. She basically imploded.”

“Should you be telling me all this, Grandpa? It’s probably classified.”

Joe leaned in and pulled Finnegan close by her underwear elastic. “If Q knows, everybody knows,” he whispered and rubbed his wet, cold face against her warm stomach.

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163 Comments

  1. Chipwooder

    Goddamn, this sequence has me very glad I’m still working from home, because that was legitimately guffaw-inducing

    “I could marry you off to JFK Jr. if you want. That wife of his really is dead. Her teeth and nose just kept growing. It was horrible. I’ve seen the pictures. She basically imploded.”

    “Should you be telling me all this, Grandpa? It’s probably classified.”

    Joe leaned in and pulled Finnegan close by her underwear elastic. “If Q knows, everybody knows,” he whispered and rubbed his wet, cold face against her warm stomach.

  2. The Late P Brooks

    “Two political dynasties locked in a generational battle for the soul of America!”

    The inevitable conclusion of the noble experiment.

  3. The Bearded Hobbit

    There goes lunch.

    Brilliant, as always.

    • juris imprudent

      Yep, thankful that breakfast burrito was well digested, and I wasn’t going to be hungry anyway.

  4. Ownbestenemy

    Yep..not eating for a bit. Still, classic in all sense of the word.

  5. kbolino

    I wondered why you brought up JFK Jr. so naturally I went to blue-pilled central (Wikipedia) to find out:

    Conspiracy Theories

    Posthumously, Kennedy became a figure in conspiracy theories associated with the far-right QAnon movement. Proponents of these theories allege that he faked his own death and is now Q, a high-level government official with access to classified information regarding then-President Donald Trump. In 2019, some QAnon followers attended Independence Day celebrations in Washington, D.C., with the expectation that Kennedy would appear on the twentieth anniversary of his death.

    It’s a troll’s world, we just live in it.

    • DEG

      Yep.

      They think he’s helping snuff out the secret child-sex-trafficking ring.

      • juris imprudent

        Now that’s funny, a Kennedy being against sexual antics – of any kind.

      • Bobarian LMD

        He was snuffing out the competition.

      • CPRM

        He learned his lesson, he was kept in the Kennedy Fuck Tunnels during his rehabilitation, scared him straight, and he became an Avenger for American Morality!

      • Bobarian LMD

        Weapon X”

    • zwak

      And THAT is how you know the Qship is total BS.

      No way Trump follower is a secret Kennedy fan. No. Way.

    • rhywun

      I think we need another vocabulary item to distinguish conspiracy theories that haven’t been proven yet from all the conspiracy theories that have come true in the last few years.

      • Plisade

        Comeuppancy Theory?

  6. Tundra

    …the Once and Future Presidental Hot Tub Grande Royale…

    Very nice.

    • Bobarian LMD

      I wonder if the CDC poster about pooping in the pool is properly displayed?

      • CPRM

        Presidential Shit isn’t like Pauper Shit, silly fool.

      • zwak

        It’s good to look like the piss boy!

  7. Somebody that you don't want to know,(Somebody)

    I managed to hold my lunch down, good stuff SF!

  8. Gustave Lytton

    Q readers don’t care who knows, as long as she’s got got tits.

    • DEG

      Excellent.

      I should have read the comments first. This is far better than my attempt.

      • Gustave Lytton

        That second got was supposed to be “big”. Stupid autocorrect.

      • DEG

        Still better than my attempt.

  9. R C Dean

    Looks like Facebook is escalating its blocking (can we call it censorship yet) of BadThink. TWO: TOS.

    Content attacking concepts, institutions, ideas, practices, or beliefs associated with protected characteristics, which are likely to contribute to imminent physical harm, intimidation or discrimination against the people associated with that protected characteristic.

    Aside from the poor drafting (that comma between “characteristics” and “which” is carrying a whole lot of weight), this is full-on editorial control of what is posted on their site. If somebody at Facebook thinks your views on pretty much anything are “likely to contribute to imminent . . . discrimination”, you’re done. And damn near anything can be said to meet that test. This is pretty obviously a shutdown of any criticism of critical race theory, but it can be applied much more broadly than that.

    • kbolino

      Gloria Ladson-Billings wrote Toward a critical race theory of education in 1995. The reaction today is 25 years too late. That’s not to say our cultural gatekeepers are in the right here, but rather that the opposition movement needs to start moving ahead of things instead of so far behind.

    • WTF

      The fact that CRT can’t withstand any debate or criticism on its merits tells you just how big a pile of bullshit it is.

  10. R C Dean

    So who is Finnegan’s real grandmother, anyway?

    • Chipwooder

      Hillary

      • R C Dean

        “Your Grandma had the best body of any woman I ever saw,”

        Sounds like Joe lost it a long time ago, then.

      • R C Dean

        Ah, got it.

      • R C Dean

        Didn’t recognize the name, thought he was calling Finnegan “Neilia” for some reason.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Now I’m wondering if the doctorate wasn’t really about Dr and Sen Biden, but one upping the dead first wife.

      • R C Dean

        Interesting. Probably in the mix with the rest of her narcissism and sociopathy.

        Whether she actually had a plan to grift the crap out of higher education (for which she needed a doctorate) or just fell into it, we’ll never know.

      • kbolino

        ¿Por qué no los dos?

      • Sensei

        You will note that this did not get the play it deserved.

        EXCLUSIVE: ‘Joe Biden stole Jill from me’: Her first husband tells how she CHEATED with Democrat candidate he once considered a friend and that they have LIED about how they started dating for years

        As a UD alumni I can neither confirm or deny that an underage Sensei may or may not have been in the Stone Balloon at an inappropriate way. I can confirm that I saw The Guess Who and Dr Dirty, aka John Valby, play there. In such a small venue he was hysterical!

  11. CPRM

    Makes me miss my dad…

  12. DEG

    “If Q knows, everybody knows,”

    I thought Q Continuum had better taste?

  13. CPRM

    Count Potato linked this in the last thread. I’m stunned by it. Not because of the content, but by the production. Not only is this ‘political reporter’ inept at politics and reporting, but also production. Popping her Ps like she a like she shootin them out her nose at the lunch table.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The condescension drips off her. Ugh.

  14. EvilSheldon

    takes bite of gyro

    Go on…

  15. R C Dean

    So, Haiti’s President was assassinated.

    Haiti was also the location of one of the Clinton Foundation’s few “charitable” endeavors.

    Coincidence?

    • Urthona

      Probably, but I’m willing to work with a conspiracy theory if it’s fun.

      • CPRM

        Unless it involves Bill parachuting out of Epstein’s plane to do the deed it’s no fun.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Epstein: “Bill, why don’t you take this parachute and jump out and fuck one of them girls?”

        Bill: “Nah, let’s just land this plane and fuck all them girls!”

    • zwak

      So, are you saying that Haiti was whore island?

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Were the UN troops there?

      • Bobarian LMD

        Yes they were.

    • B.P.

      From AP article on assassination:

      “occhit Edmond, the Haitian ambassador to the United States, said the attack on the 53-year-old Moïse was carried out by “well-trained professional commandos” and “foreign mercenaries” who were masquerading as agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.”

      Naive question: Are DEA agents openly operating in a lot of foreign countries, enough so that this was a believable ruse?

      • WTF

        Yes, the DEA openly operates in quite a few foreign countries, because FYTW.
        It’s also a leap to think the assassins were only masquerading as DEA agents.

      • Bobarian LMD

        DEA hit the wrong house?

    • CPRM

      The regional governors now have direct control over their territories. Fear will keep the local systems in line. Fear of this battle station.

    • kbolino

      I guess I can be thankful that all these federal police factions are not united yet.

      How are they not? They all seem to coincidentally reach the same conclusions.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Different masters at the moment…once that is consolidated under Patriot Act: Homeland Edition then I will truly fear them.

    • Plisade

      I once bought a house from an investigator with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. He told me that State BIs are essentially arms of the FBI, but for jurisdictional purposes they can’t overtly state that. Makes me wonder why the FBI would do this, when they can just use those states’ BIs. I suppose dude could’ve been stretching the truth. /shrugs

  16. juris imprudent

    So from the last thread I looked up Carla Sands to see what was on offer to us here in the Commonwealth. That was more stomach-churning than SF content.

  17. Ozymandias

    https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-07-06/u-s-capitol-police-to-open-california-office-following-jan-6-attack

    Why have an FBI when you can use a police force under your direct rule. I guess I can be thankful that all these federal police factions are not united yet.

    Watch. There will be a terrible ‘incident’ – last night I said it would be over the door-to-door vaccine ‘encouragement’, but it could be anything. The current fedgov admin and their team blue sycophants in state office will find an excuse to have armed agents of the state ensuring that some demop members are ‘protected’ while they’re violating people’s civil rights going door-to-door. It’s exactly how the TSA works. Most of the drones are fat, polyester-wearing drones, but they keep enough door-kicking authoritarians in the back so that if one of the proles gets lippy, the goon squad comes out to ensure no one gets out of line – and the goons can easily be convinced because some baddie went after a hack wearing the same uniform. Same union, same uniform.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Things move slowly until they don’t. We’re in the “they don’t” phase now.

      • leon

        Remember when Trump arresting people who tried to burn down a Federal building was him sending his gestapo after political enemies.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Maybe it’s all overblown. Maybe nothing will happen.

        But maybe doesnt confer guarantees and the loudest are wanting it.

      • leon

        I was mostly pointing out the hypocrisy

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        ^ Not to go Godwin, but many Jews still didn’t understand what was happening and were in disbelief as they were led off to the showers.

        Coming deep shit is always a labeled conspiracy theory due to confirmation bias… until suddenly it’s here.

      • Chipwooder

        Yes. A common question in history books I’ve read is why the Jews of Europe largely went obediently and quietly to their deaths, and that was the biggest factor. Virtually no one could believe that the Germans had built a huge infrastructure expressly to kill large numbers of people in an efficient manner. What is obvious to us today was not obvious in 1940.

    • Drake

      Better bring a lot of body-bags.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Etc. == mexicans.

      • Mojeaux

        My bad.

  18. robodruid

    Less Funny, more prophetic.

  19. juris imprudent

    Well fuck Mozilla.

    “YouTube needs to admit their algorithm is designed in a way that harms and misinforms people,” said Brandi Geurkink, senior advocacy manager at Mozilla.

    Wednesday’s investigation also found users in non-English-speaking countries were exposed to regrettable videos at a 60 percent higher rate, with the highest ratio of incidences coming from Brazil, Germany and France.

    • CPRM

      regrettable videos

      WTF does that even mean?

      • Sensei

        The findings, released Wednesday, revealed many instances of YouTube recommending videos that users had marked as “regrettable” — a broad category including misinformation, violence and hate speech.

        In other words whatever this non randomly selected group of people didn’t like.

      • invisible finger

        Misinformation, violence, or hate speech qualifies every ad YouTube streams.

      • Bobarian LMD

        WTF does that even mean?

        Trump was in them.

    • CPRM

      Mozilla gathered 3,362 reports submitted by 1,622 unique contributors

      Mozzilla: Rise of the Karens.

      • rhywun

        *insert audio of ground shaking and swelling chorus of screeches and moans*

      • Bobarian LMD

        ::Gif of Donald Sutherland pointing and screeching::

    • Suthenboy

      Who goes to Youtube for political or social information? That is like going to CNN for news.

      I watch music videos, woodworking videos etc.

      • Sensei

        Precisely.

        It’s the same way I use Wikipedia. I’m certainly not going to use Wiki as a definitive source for information on Joe Biden, for example.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yep..I absolutely love YouTube to watch space launches, how to do this or that…but I do not watch beyond that.

      • l0b0t

        Indeed, DerpTube has helped me fix our AC, dishwasher, and clothes dryer.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Like all things: a good, a bad and an ugly.

        I can look up the most obscure thing that I can think of, but yet I can find someone that has made it, fixed it or destroyed it.

        What an amazing thing.

      • Bobarian LMD

        I go to another website for all my woodworking videos.

        Unless it’s something that HM linked.

    • slumbrew

      I deleted Firefox when they came out with this:

      We need more than deplatforming

      “There is no question that social media played a role in the siege and take-over of the US Capitol on January 6.”

      More derp follows.

      • rhywun

        Wow. Good choice. I dumped them years ago* but that is just awful. But I see a lot of political shit from organizations that are not profit-driven.

        *for Chrome ? which has itself been dumped

      • kbolino

        And that’s the CEO. That whole organization seems to be one big woke dumpster fire. The EFF, the ACLU, Mozilla, … there remain very few of what used to be respectable organizations that haven’t been thoroughly skinsuited.

    • Not Adahn

      Ever since the Brendan Eich debacle, I’ve been firmly in the “Fuck Mozilla” camp.

      • Bill Door

        ^This.

        I’m looking into Vivialdi 4.0 now, but am currently using Brave.

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        +8

      • Rat on a train

        Their market share indicates most of their users have said Fuck Mozilla for whatever reason.

  20. Swiss Servator

    Finnegan used the showerhead to rinse off his bent and gnarled body, his mottled flesh, and labial folds of loose skin.

    Gah!?

    • Ownbestenemy

      He is all of us and the transcended neo-human that is man, woman, of all race and shall be dipped in gold and enshrined.

    • rhywun

      Yeah, I was wondering if Hilary had worked some dark magic on him.

  21. Scruffy Nerfherder

    *reads first line*

    ABORT ABORT ABORT

  22. juris imprudent

    If only we had national standards on police training, all would be well.

    No, all we need to do is end qualified immunity and make the entire police department, including the officer pension fund, liable for damages. They’ll weed out the shitheads real quick.

    • l0b0t

      My mom had to carry a rather extensive malpractice policy and she was only a radiologist. I had to get bonded, and the shop had to carry a liability policy as a picture framer. I don’t think it would asking too much for LEOs to carry some kind of insurance. Perhaps it could be issued by their union as an incentive for the union to dump cops who have too many pay-outs?

      • Mojeaux

        I had to get bonded, and the shop had to carry a liability policy as a picture framer.

        You worked at Michael’s, right? I did too, as a picture framer, and I didn’t have to do that. Maybe a state thing?

      • l0b0t

        Yep, NYC thing, and because of our location, we got some stupendously pricey pieces from folk who did want to go to Manhattan or Long Island City (where the REALLY fancy museum frame shops are).

      • Mojeaux

        Ah.

        I got in trouble once for taking a customer’s cross stitch piece home and washing it for her, preparing it for framing. The customer was just so grateful she found a fellow stitcher who knew what to do with it I couldn’t stand to break her heart. Boy, was my manager pissed.

      • l0b0t

        I left when my manager (with full approval of the DM) threw away two pieces because the customers could not pick them up. I had even arranged to deliver one but was told HELL NO by the boss because the shop’s insurance wouldn’t cover me using my own truck. SO they threw the art into the fucking trash compactor!!

      • Mojeaux

        Oh my goodness gracious.

        I only worked part time in the evenings and on the weekends. I left when I got a day job that had hours where I couldn’t get to work on time in the evenings.

      • l0b0t

        I will cop to crying about it. An 1849 nautical chart of Long Island Sound and Jamaica Bay (48” X 72”), and an original cell from Sleeping Beauty (16” X 18”). Absolutely heartbreaking.

      • Mojeaux

        OMG.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Why you tell us these things?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Never mind me. Reaffirms my Nader-esque preference for small businesses.

      • R C Dean

        Jeebus. Its a frame shop. Hang ’em on the wall as examples of framing.

      • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

        Philistines who care nothing for art or the patrimoine of a nation or people shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near a framing shop, much less be appointed as the manager, fer cryin’ out loud . . .

      • invisible finger

        I suspect the doctors that are in favor of socialized medicine are entirely motivated by socialized malpractice. Like vaccine producers.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        “socialized malpractice”

        Good way of putting it.

      • Bobarian LMD

        That’s how we recruit doctors into the military.

    • kinnath

      A headline at Salon was “police unions are too powerful”. I thought, wow, Salon is finally paying attention. Then I saw the author was Robert Reich, so I didn’t bother to click through.

      It’s been pulled from then main page. Not completely memory-holed, but well out of the way. Must have been too truthy for Salon.

      • kbolino

        It’s better for them to capture the union leadership than to decertify or penalize the unions. The latter creates too much disruption and too much potential for control to fall into the “wrong” hands.

      • kinnath

        I got nuthin better to do . . . so let’s see what Robert has to say:

        One study found that extending collective bargaining rights to Florida sheriffs’ offices led to an estimated 40 percent increase in violent police misconduct.

        Another study found that the protections built into the police union contracts in America’s 100 largest cities were significantly correlated with the killing of unarmed civilians.

        Another study suggests that the increase in police unionization from the 1950s through the 1980s resulted in “about 60 to 70” additional civilians killed by police each year — the majority of whom were people of color.

        Experts believe the protections in police union contracts give too many officers the sense they can abuse their power.

        So, that’s why Salon pulled it from the main page.

        Now, don’t get me wrong. Stopping the abuses of police unions must not become a stalking horse for attacking public sector unions generally. But the unchecked powers of police unions urgently need to be addressed.

        Come to the dark side Robert. We have cookies.

      • B.P.

        He makes his own cookies. Inside a hollow tree.

      • kinnath

        For decades, police unions have shielded officers from accountability, bullied cities into doing their bidding, and attacked lawmakers who took them on. It’s past time to ensure they can no longer block accountability under the guise of collective bargaining.

        Huh. Did Robert get into the wrong bottle and take a red pill?

      • Akira

        Now, don’t get me wrong. Stopping the abuses of police unions must not become a stalking horse for attacking public sector unions generally.

        Why the fuck not? The police violence issue is just a particularly stark example of what goes on with every type of government employee union – bad employees get protected and citizens get the shaft.

      • Plisade

        STATE SMITH???

  23. WTF

    When Trump lost and I knew the Hat and Hair were going away, I felt a profound sense of loss.
    I no longer feel that thanks to Joemala.

    Good stuff, SugarFree.

  24. Sean

    https://www.foxnews.com/media/covid-vaccine-heart-condition-17-year-old-father-friends

    A 17-year-old student who received the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine in order to attend school and play soccer was diagnosed with heart issues soon after the shot, his father explained Tuesday on “Fox & Friends.”

    “A week later, he came home and started telling me that his heart was hurting every time he had a heartbeat,” Fabio Berlingieri told “Fox & Friends.”

    Nothing to see here. Move along.

    Safe, effective, & free!

    Keep an eye out for the strike forces, kids.

    • Urthona

      I was in the Pfizer phase 3 trials last June. One of the earliest to get the vaccine.

      Shortly after, I had all the symptoms of myocarditis and went to the cardiologist. we have heart issues in my family and i just figured it was the beginning. All men in my family have needed some valve work by their 50’s.

      I did have the irregular heartbeat.

      Some time later it just went away.

      Neither I nor my doctor thought it had anything to do with the vaccine.

      But when I saw the report I was mighty curious.

      I will say i’m in my 40’s, however, and not a young man. Though I suspect when people my age get the issue they normally think it’s something else and not so unusual.

      But I am suspicious. By no means I am suggesting that the vaccine is not worth it for some people and I don’t know the odds of this. But I think it may well be a real thing.

      • Urthona

        I will also say a flaw in my trial. You report all symptoms of everything you get for years afterward but that wasn’t on the checklist in the app. I bet a lot of people aren’t reporting it. I don’t know how likely it is to be serious.

  25. Old Man With Candy

    What about the kids in the pool rubbing his leg hairs? Were they present? Was that the reason for his slow erection?

    • Bobarian LMD

      For whose slow erection? Yours or Joe’s?

      • Old Man With Candy

        Yes.

    • Chipwooder

      No, Joe splits custody of them with Corn Pop.

    • blackjack

      I thought it was an Asian talking about his 2020 campaign.

  26. kinnath

    I got nothin

    A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that the U.S. Air Force is mostly responsible for the 2017 mass shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas, due to its failure to enter the gunman’s criminal history into a federal background check database, which might have prevented him from purchasing firearms.

    • Ownbestenemy

      That ruling will be used going forward…

    • Sensei

      Seems to me AF shouldn’t be trusted with arms.

      Isn’t that the way all these laws are supposed to work?

    • blackjack

      A federal judge ruled that his court should be responsible for debasing both the US constitution and the very concept of personal responsibility.

    • Sean

      “The trial conclusively established that no other individual — not even Kelley’s own parents or partners — knew as much as the United States about the violence that Devin Kelley had threatened to commit and was capable of committing,” Rodriguez’s ruling read.

      Kind of a big leap from domestic violence to mass murder, imo.

  27. Ownbestenemy

    Thanks Neph for the Siege. Its Hollywood but you can see our governments fingerprints all over it.

    • Nephilium

      Glad you enjoyed it.

    • Bobarian LMD

      7:30 PM seems a little early for this kind of whack-a-doo.

      The picture really is the chef’s kiss to that story.

      That would make me cross the street.

    • LJW

      Mobile home? All I see is a pile of what kind of looks like tents taped together.

      • The Hyperbole

        It is a tent. They used a picture/video of some dude burning a homeless guys tent in England at the top of the article for some reason.

      • Not Adahn

        Apparently it’s modern journalism to use a “more interesting than factual” photo to go along with stories. Just like Cuomo used a pre-coof Jewish wedding pic to demonstrate how (((they))) were filthy disease vectors and he needed to heroically shut down synagogues.

      • B.P.

        Headline: Supply Chain Setbacks Still Impacting Cost of Lumber

        Pictured: Demi Rose

      • Bobarian LMD

        Wood.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        I can’t see what was done due to the beam in my eye.

    • Not Adahn

      A 37-year-old woman named Sheena Johnson has been arrested and charged with several crimes, including arson, attempted murder, resisting arrest, and disorderly conduct

      Huh. Sheena is a punk rocker.

  28. Mojeaux

    *sigh* Sitting at the vet with my very lethargic kitteh.

    • Sean

      Poor kitteh. Hope it’s nothing serious.

    • Gender Traitor

      ☹️ Being affected by something more than the famous MO heat and humidity?

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Oh no! How old?

      In a similar situation here (so far, cat fight seems most likely).

    • Mojeaux

      Today he has just been very listless, which is not like him. He has no bladder issues, thank heaven. He did have a fever though, so anti-inflammatory, antibiotic, and an injection of fluids and electrolytes. As soon as we got home he was more lively.

      TO’G, he is 2.5 yo.

      • SugarFree

        Quick tip to get them to drink more. Set out numerous bowls of water and they will usually go around and drink out of every one of them.

      • R C Dean

        I would have gone with a “2 for 1 Happy Hour” sign, but your way is probably better.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        FREE BEER

        SF: huh, did not know that.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Reminded of probably the funniest farside

        Oh please, oh please…

      • Gender Traitor

        ? Yup. Longtime favorite!

      • SugarFree

        It plays on their instinct to drink water whenever they find it.

        Also, an easy way to check for dehydration is to grab the skin between their shoulder blades and let go. If it doesn’t immediately snap back into place, they are dehydrated.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I’ve used low sodium chicken broth in the past. Not sure if that’s “recommended” or not, though.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Crab (or clam?) juice in a small bottle has worked here. Also Licks packets for meal replacement.

    • DEG

      Best wishes!

    • Mojeaux

      Thanks for the advice, SF. I didn’t know that.

      Thanks all for the good wishes.

      He’s still not wanting to move and now he’s sneezing. She did say to call tomorrow if he started to sneeze.

  29. Sean
  30. westernsloper

    ….his gray hide sluicing away sudsy water as it broke the surface of the Once and Future Presidental Hot Tub Grande Royale like some starveling whale calf.

    ?………and then……….Joe leaned in and pulled Finnegan close by her underwear elastic. “If Q knows, everybody knows,” he whispered and rubbed his wet, cold face against her warm stomach.

    #creepedthefuckout