I can has lolcats?

[Spriggan]

[Oldie Black Witch]

ROTFLOL. Thanks, Sprig. I needed that.

And just 'cause I feel the need to bring some more geekiness: lolphysicists. (I can't take credit.)



And our favorite childhood hero, Oppenheimer:

[Shrain]

Poor right foot kitty! He has lost his mate.

Anyhoo, here is how your cat views your bed: http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/catmapl.gif

[Spriggan]

[Tage]

It has been too long! I love this one:

[Peter Ahlstrom]

But the 000000 cat is brown/tortoiseshell...

[Spriggan]

[stacer]

But the 000000 cat is brown/tortoiseshell...

That's a tiger cat, not tortoiseshell (stripes, not spots). If I had time this morning, I could photoshop a picture of Tildrum into that spot. (Tildrum is my all-black cat.)

[Fellfrosch]

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/funny-pictures-halo-dog-pew.jpg

[Pink Bunkadoo]

One for Ookla (this is Petercat):

[stacer]

This one was just too cute.

[Peter Ahlstrom]

Stacer, you consider the cat in Pink Bunkadoo's picture a tiger cat?

[stacer]

Yeah. This is tortoiseshell: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortoiseshell_cat. It's a form of calicoism, and mostly only prevalent in female cats because it's an X-gene thing (though some rare male cats might express it if they're XXY). Though interestingly enough, it looks like we're both right: this is a dilute torty: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Dilute_tortie_tabby_cat_-_Sophie.jpg.

The gene expression seems to be closely related, though--looking at this image (poor squashed kitten!) tiger cat and tortoiseshell often come in the same families of cats (which matches my experience--we've had calicoes and torties for years growing up, and there was always a tiger cat in the litter).

[Pink Bunkadoo]

looking at this image (poor squashed kitten!)

Awww!

We had a tortoiseshell named Trixie when I was growing up (she got killed by the garage door while I was on my mission--very sad).  People either thought she was really pretty or really ugly.  I remember one guy said she looked like a burnt groundhog.

[Spriggan]

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