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Caturday: Calico rolls a D20

Xeni Jardin at 10:43 am Sat, Sep 24, 2011

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Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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The Snowden Principle

  • phisrow

    I’m too cool to care what kind of skill check I just passed; but I’m not too cool to pass it with extreme prejudice…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OAUXAA362EXWLYVMPJOKLFB5JQ Incipient Madness

    NACHRUL 20 WTH HOLI SORD

    LICH KING DIEZ NOW

  • Marktech

    +10 cute modifier.

  • Flashman

    Interesting quirk I just learned, appropriately enough, from CBC Radio’s Quirks and Quarks: all calico cats are female.

    http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/episode/2011/09/24/september-24-2011/

  • valdis

    Calico cats are *almost* always female.  It’s possible for a chimeric cat that contains DNA from multiple embryos to have calico fur on the part(s) derived from a female embryo and male on other parts.  There’s also the occasional mosaic cat…

    http://www.best-cat-art.com/calico-cats.html

    An example:

    http://cheezburger.com/metal-maiden/lolz/View/593696000

  • Paul Renault

    Actually, she rolled a 13, but moved the die.

  • http://halfbakedmaker.org Robert Baruch

    Save vs. Cute

  • jtegnell

    Fat little girl, and missing a fang.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OAUXAA362EXWLYVMPJOKLFB5JQ Incipient Madness

      Fat little girl, and missing a fang.

      Quit that with your sexy talk!

      You’re describing my dream woman, especially if she lost that tooth to an undead so powerful that a high-level spell like Restoration could not bring it back.

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=607675355 Brent Kirkham

        Hold on.  Are we talking about humans here?  Just so’s we’re sure……

  • http://twitter.com/artofcstuckless CraigStucklessArt

    Geeky  cat pics, highly  tweetable.

  • gwailo_joe

    cat is DM obviously.

    rolls critical for Tiamat and all PCs are froze, flambe’d, and shock ed: ‘Goodnight meow! Thank you for playing!  Take some Slice and Mothers cookies home on your way out!’

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=607675355 Brent Kirkham

    So, this is strange, but normal.  Step-mom rescued a couple of cats from the vet, twins!  (we may have to put them down!!!)  One cat is ginger, the other is tortoiseshell.  Here’s where it gets strange, the ginger one was female, the tortoiseshell was male.  And they both have ‘thumbs’.  An extra digit.  They are soooooooo close to opening their own food, there will be no use for our continued existence.

    Cute though.  Opening their own foil pouches.  Plotting the downfall of humanity.  Yet still so cuddly.

  • Peaklet

    No one so far has noticed that it’s a spin-down.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Schweitzer/100000462546876 David Schweitzer

    Only One d-20?  roll two.  sweet n sour cat has new meaning for me.