RIPs

[SmallBlueThing]

That's dreadful. So very sorry tordleback.

SBT

[The Legendary Shark]

Sorry to hear that, Tordelback

[JayzusB.Christ]

Awww, sorry to hear that, TB. Coming from a cat-loving family with a house beside a main road, I know all too well what it's like. 

[Bat King]

Condolences Tordelback

I came to the realisation that my cherished dog would be dead now had he not been run over years ago.  We were on holiday and he was in the care of my mother-in-law. Trying to explain to an 18 month child why her dog is not coming when she calls isn't an easy thing.

My daughter is 23 now, so he'd be gone anyway.  Doesn't make me miss him less of course.  He was a great dog, especially with my daughter.  He checked her first thing in the morning and told us if she cried and we didn't here for any reason.  He had decided she was his responsibility from the day she came home from hospital.

Pets are family.  Indeed animals are generally more reliable... (not calling my daughter unreliable... but she has a brother (snigger)).

[TordelBack]

Bloody pets, just one more way for the world to hurt you. 

Thanks for the thoughts, all.  Telling the kids was the worst part, as she was 'their' first kitten (our other three moggies are over 10, so predate them), and an incredibly gentle and affectionate animal - hardly a cat at all. 

All of our cats have been now been hit by cars, as despite purposely deliberately living in cul-de-sac the next road over has become a ridiculously fast rat-run short cut, but Mushroom is the first one to be killed outright.  At least some kind soul had the decency to move her on to the pavement where I found her, a duty I've performed myself many times, and am now pleased to see the difference it makes to the owner. 

Ah well, we've room for another lost cause now I suppose.

[Roger Godpleton]

Sorry to hear that, TB.

[Misanthrope]

My condolences, TB.

[COMMANDO FORCES]

Vidal Sassoon aged 84

[Spaceghost]

Sorry to hear about your moggy Tback.

[Syne]

Really, really sorry to hear that TordelBack. All the best.

[Misanthrope]

Vidal Sassoon aged 84

Tenuous link to 2000ad. Didn't they ask him for a quote for the graphic novel of Hewligan's Haircut and he responded with:

"We don't wish to be associated with this sort of thing?"

And they put it on the graphic novel anyway?

[Syne]

The New Yorker website published a Sendak/Art Spielgelman collaboration depicting a conversation they had back in the '90s. Contains a great line from Sendak: "Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!"

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/spieg-sendak.jpg

[Syne]

Vidal Sassoon aged 84

Tenuous link to 2000ad. Didn't they ask him for a quote for the graphic novel of Hewligan's Haircut and he responded with:

"We don't wish to be associated with this sort of thing?"

And they put it on the graphic novel anyway?

I remember hearing that story too. Classic

[Colin YNWA]

Tony DeZungia, fantastic comicbook artist who drew one heck of a mean Jonah Hex, amongst others.

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2012/05/10/r-i-p-tony-dezuniga/

[johnnystress]

sad to hear it