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Hi I'm Vee!Hi I'm Vee! Formerly VH; She/Her; Is an E X P E R I E N C ERegistered User regular
By now I'm sure most of you are familiar with my cat Widget.

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But I bet you don't know how she got her name!

Originally she was going to be called Iris (over my strenuous objections), but fortunately I stumbled upon a children's book my mother had when she was a kid:

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Which was basically Widget as a kitten.

Recently I snagged the book when I visited home, and I've uploaded it to an imgur album. It's full of Widget adventures!

First of all, lets fix the cover:

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That's better.

Anyway, you should definitely check out the book. In it, Widget defeats a terrifying bear:

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Takes a nap in a slipper:

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And even tangles with the puppy from next door!

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Wait wait, hang on, that puppy's not nearly vicious enough.

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There, much better. Super vicious dog, let me tell you.

Anyway, the full book is in this album (with the original, unaltered pictures):

http://imgur.com/a/n3OP6

Unfortunately the book is long out of print, so unless you happen to have your own copy, this is probably the only place to read it. Enjoy!

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  • Hi I'm Vee!Hi I'm Vee! Formerly VH; She/Her; Is an E X P E R I E N C E Registered User regular
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  • So It GoesSo It Goes We keep moving...Registered User regular
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    this legal document seems suspicious...

  • BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
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    Good thing you posted this 'cause I came in here indignant as all hell let me tell you

  • So It GoesSo It Goes We keep moving...Registered User regular
    Geth, recycle the thread on page 100

    Geth, the word Trump is forbidden in the thread

  • GethGeth Legion Perseus VeilRegistered User, Moderator, Penny Arcade Staff, Vanilla Staff vanilla
    Affirmative So It Goes. Thread will be recycled after 100 pages.

  • GethGeth Legion Perseus VeilRegistered User, Moderator, Penny Arcade Staff, Vanilla Staff vanilla
    Affirmative So It Goes. "trump" is forbidden in this thread.

  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    Eddy wrote: »
    I have in my head an idea for a rom-com where two small-time con artists pretend to propose at nice restaurants and use the resultant good feelings to get out of paying for the meal, or, failing that, use it as an excuse to dine and dash, but then they really start falling in love

    Ok thinking about it that sounds terrible, I need either a twist or a better romantic con

    I think there's a whole potential subgenre to mine here: the rom-con

    a small part of I think Choke is that he chokes on food in restaurants to get free meals

    BNet-Vari#1998 | Switch-SW 6960 6688 8388 | Steam | Twitch
  • Hi I'm Vee!Hi I'm Vee! Formerly VH; She/Her; Is an E X P E R I E N C E Registered User regular
    @jungleroomx your sin was forgiven

    now it is forgotten

    go with god my son

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  • OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User regular
    i wrote those messages at widget-point

    claws sharp as hell

  • BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
    'Course, there's no timestamps, but eh

    What am I, an investigative journalist

  • OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User regular
    contracts signed under coercion aren't contracts at all etc etc

  • Hi I'm Vee!Hi I'm Vee! Formerly VH; She/Her; Is an E X P E R I E N C E Registered User regular
    BeNarwhal wrote: »
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    Good thing you posted this 'cause I came in here indignant as all hell let me tell you

    Yeah, I screenshotted that and put it on imgur and copied the url before even posting the [chat] because I knew I needed to post it as quickly as possible.

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  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    and since this was the very last post (I actually got an alert when I hit 'post', which should mean the thread was locked, except the post is there, so it wasn't locked. doesn't make sense!)


    someone just said Benton was "only a resident" because he's about to perform emergency surgery

    funny note, they wrote his name on a board and the name above his was 'Wiley', which is his student's real name. I wonder if the other listed names were the actor's names... went by too fast.

    BNet-Vari#1998 | Switch-SW 6960 6688 8388 | Steam | Twitch
  • Hi I'm Vee!Hi I'm Vee! Formerly VH; She/Her; Is an E X P E R I E N C E Registered User regular
    But also forget all that shit, that OP is the best one I've ever made so read it again you fucks.

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  • Havelock2.0Havelock2.0 What are you? Some kind of half-assed astronaut?Registered User regular
    shes a lovely dog vh

    You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water, our shark.
  • BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
    BeNarwhal wrote: »
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    Good thing you posted this 'cause I came in here indignant as all hell let me tell you

    Yeah, I screenshotted that and put it on imgur and copied the url before even posting the [chat] because I knew I needed to post it as quickly as possible.

    You know us well, friend

  • Hi I'm Vee!Hi I'm Vee! Formerly VH; She/Her; Is an E X P E R I E N C E Registered User regular
    shes a lovely dog vh

    i am going to fucking murder you

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  • CoinageCoinage Heaviside LayerRegistered User regular
    BRUTAL UNCENSORED DOG FIGHT

    Happiness is within reach!
  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    edited January 2018
    The thing to remember about American bachelor's degrees being filled with generalist information is that American high school is a joke.

    You can get a diploma while barely literate.

    And there isn't really much discrimination on college admittance either. Oh you might not get into the fancy private school or the top state school, but the second and third tier state schools will let in basically anybody. And the for-profit private schools will let in literally anybody who can pay.

    So colleges have to be general cause half the time they're starting from scratch.

    Aioua on
    life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
    fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
    that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
    bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
  • IncenjucarIncenjucar VChatter Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    So I made a shortest-haired purple cat with a deep voice called Destroyer.

  • BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
    So It Goes wrote: »
    Geth, recycle the thread on page 100

    Geth, the word is forbidden in the thread

    SIG FYI the last time you tried to get Geth to do two commands in one post you got flustered and recycled [chat]

    Things went much better this time

  • BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
    Aioua wrote: »
    The thing to remember about American bachelor's degrees being filled with generalist information is that America high school is a joke.

    You can get a diploma while barely literate.

    And there isn't really much discrimination on college admittance either. Oh you might not get into the fancy private school or the top state school, but the second and third tier state schools will let in basically anybody. And the for-profit private schools will let in literally anybody who can pay.

    So colleges have to be general cause half the time they're starting from scratch.

    Making me feel bad about flunkin' outta Uni, Vowels

  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    BeNarwhal wrote: »
    Aioua wrote: »
    The thing to remember about American bachelor's degrees being filled with generalist information is that America high school is a joke.

    You can get a diploma while barely literate.

    And there isn't really much discrimination on college admittance either. Oh you might not get into the fancy private school or the top state school, but the second and third tier state schools will let in basically anybody. And the for-profit private schools will let in literally anybody who can pay.

    So colleges have to be general cause half the time they're starting from scratch.

    Making me feel bad about flunkin' outta Uni, Vowels

    Benar I am also a college drop out!

    life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
    fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
    that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
    bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
  • kedinikkedinik Registered User regular
    huh... I'm having trouble typing, I should probably go to sleep

  • BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
    Aioua wrote: »
    BeNarwhal wrote: »
    Aioua wrote: »
    The thing to remember about American bachelor's degrees being filled with generalist information is that America high school is a joke.

    You can get a diploma while barely literate.

    And there isn't really much discrimination on college admittance either. Oh you might not get into the fancy private school or the top state school, but the second and third tier state schools will let in basically anybody. And the for-profit private schools will let in literally anybody who can pay.

    So colleges have to be general cause half the time they're starting from scratch.

    Making me feel bad about flunkin' outta Uni, Vowels

    Benar I am also a college drop out!

    Flunked outta college and now all I do is spend all day postin' on the internet with my college dropout friends! Oh god!

    :P

  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    BeNarwhal wrote: »
    Aioua wrote: »
    BeNarwhal wrote: »
    Aioua wrote: »
    The thing to remember about American bachelor's degrees being filled with generalist information is that America high school is a joke.

    You can get a diploma while barely literate.

    And there isn't really much discrimination on college admittance either. Oh you might not get into the fancy private school or the top state school, but the second and third tier state schools will let in basically anybody. And the for-profit private schools will let in literally anybody who can pay.

    So colleges have to be general cause half the time they're starting from scratch.

    Making me feel bad about flunkin' outta Uni, Vowels

    Benar I am also a college drop out!

    Flunked outta college and now all I do is spend all day postin' on the internet with my college dropout friends! Oh god!

    :P

    Yeah but you hang out with a lot of doctors.

    life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
    fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
    that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
    bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
  • BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
    Mine was also an arts degree!

    And I less "flunked out" and more "had difficulty attending"

    In lieu of, like, any other way to spend my time

    Which worked out okay!

  • BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
    Until the madness started, that is

    But that also has worked out okay!

  • Havelock2.0Havelock2.0 What are you? Some kind of half-assed astronaut?Registered User regular
    shes a lovely dog vh

    i am going to fucking murder you

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    You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water, our shark.
  • BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
    Aioua wrote: »
    BeNarwhal wrote: »
    Aioua wrote: »
    BeNarwhal wrote: »
    Aioua wrote: »
    The thing to remember about American bachelor's degrees being filled with generalist information is that America high school is a joke.

    You can get a diploma while barely literate.

    And there isn't really much discrimination on college admittance either. Oh you might not get into the fancy private school or the top state school, but the second and third tier state schools will let in basically anybody. And the for-profit private schools will let in literally anybody who can pay.

    So colleges have to be general cause half the time they're starting from scratch.

    Making me feel bad about flunkin' outta Uni, Vowels

    Benar I am also a college drop out!

    Flunked outta college and now all I do is spend all day postin' on the internet with my college dropout friends! Oh god!

    :P

    Yeah but you hang out with a lot of doctors.

    Whenever I'm talking about the forums and I want to class the joint up, I always mention all the doctors and lawyers and engineers

    I never mention that you're all still filthy degenerates just like me, because that doesn't help my argument

  • BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
    "Hey Narwhal, how come you're studying English and History at university?"

    "Oh hey, well it's 'cause I figured out early on in high school that reading something and then writing about what I read is a super-easy way to get an A! So I figure I'll just keep that strategy going, you know?

    ...

    What do you mean "what am I going to do after school?" I didn't really think about it, I just had super-good grades in English and History and got into one of the best schools in the country so I figured I'd just keep doing English and History! I was 17 and just really excited that I got to apply to universities and I got into every school I applied to, it was great!

    ...

    Oh you mean what do I want to do with my life? Well what I want to do is wander into the woods and become a hermit, most days, so I gotta admit I don't really have a 5-year plan!"

    Thank you for reading "A conversation with 18 year old Narwhal, depressed (undiagnosed)"

  • wanderingwandering Russia state-affiliated media Registered User regular
    Pizza and hot chocolate: the midnight snack of champions

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  • OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User regular
    what kind of inhuman mutant can get just a single 65 calorie serving of graham crackers

  • credeikicredeiki Registered User regular
    Is that hot chocolate or did you make a s'more?
    Where does the graham cracker enter here?

    Steam, LoL: credeiki
  • DoctorArchDoctorArch Curmudgeon Registered User regular
    Aioua wrote: »
    BeNarwhal wrote: »
    Aioua wrote: »
    The thing to remember about American bachelor's degrees being filled with generalist information is that America high school is a joke.

    You can get a diploma while barely literate.

    And there isn't really much discrimination on college admittance either. Oh you might not get into the fancy private school or the top state school, but the second and third tier state schools will let in basically anybody. And the for-profit private schools will let in literally anybody who can pay.

    So colleges have to be general cause half the time they're starting from scratch.

    Making me feel bad about flunkin' outta Uni, Vowels

    Benar I am also a college drop out!

    :bro: right there with both of you.

    It still counts even though I went back after a decade.

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  • DoctorArchDoctorArch Curmudgeon Registered User regular
    edited January 2018
    I’ve been informed by the Germans to pack my swimsuit for an upcoming business trip because the hotel has both a bar and a heated pool and there will be much German revelry.

    DoctorArch on
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  • credeikicredeiki Registered User regular
    how is it even possible to have marshmallows or chocolate chips in your house available to make hot chocolate without having just eaten them all straight from the bag the same week you bought them

    Steam, LoL: credeiki
  • BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
    credeiki wrote: »
    Is that hot chocolate or did you make a s'more?
    Where does the graham cracker enter here?

    You dip it in your hot chocolate!

  • BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
    VERY briefly, or else it becomes mush and starts falling apart

    This is critical

  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo We are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourse Registered User regular
    edited January 2018
    wandering wrote: »
    Pizza and hot chocolate: the midnight snack of champions

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    What are you doing with those four packets of sugar? Why do you have packets of sugar? Do you steal them from Starbucks?

    Mojo_Jojo on
    Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
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