To my cat Groucho

[james_davis_nicoll]

It is inconsistent to complain that I am brushing out all your fur snarls and then complain that I stopped.

Comments

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

So hard to find good help these days. ;-)

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

It's perfectly consistent: U R doin' it Worng. Whatever 'it' is, which may change from moment to moment, without warning. Much in the same way that the problem is never that the cat is on the outside of the door wanting in, or on the inside wanting out, but that you have thoughtlessly left a door in the way of the cat's whim & fancy. Also, if it is raining out when last week it was fine, that is your fault. U R doin' it Worng.

[beth-bernobich.livejournal.com]

Sounds consistent to me.

[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

A foolish consistency is a hobgoblin of furless food apes.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

He didn't tell you to start. He didn't tell you to stop. I don't see the inconsistency.

[agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com]

This.

[badgerbag.livejournal.com]

Conflicted!

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

What do you expect from a cat named Groucho?

Not that you probably haven't heard that before 1000 times or anything.

[twoeleven.livejournal.com]

Inconsistency, thy name is cat.

[chomiji]

It's not inconsistent: it's cattish.

[timgueguen.livejournal.com]

If you had a house full of Springer Spaniels you wouldn't have this problem. Whether this would be a fair tradeoff for the problems a bunch of Springers might bring is another question.

o

[dbdatvic.livejournal.com]

... and now I'm picturing an illustration in a physics book of a cubical box, containing a small spattering of idealized spaniel pictures, oriented in all directions, each with a dotted-line trail behind it, showing that they are bouncing off each bounding plane of the box without losing energy. A dilute gas of them, as it were.

--Dave