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Let's send Sammy Letters (WAS: Supporting Sammy the postoffice cat)
On Jan 12, 4:11*pm, "jmcquown" wrote:
"Linda Boucher" wrote in message I say we should all write Sammy a letter to his new P.O. Box 173 in Notasulga, Alabama, Postal Code 36866-0173 *If you can, send catnip! send Kitty toys! *I say we support Sammy! *snip Jill Jill, that's a wonderful idea. After reading the news report and watching the video news feed it really pulls at your heart strings. Libraries have cats (very famous ones too!) why not Post Offices? Hell, we have a dog in our office! I think every place should have an animal, especially cats. Who was Sammy really bothering anyway? Did that person want Sammy's little patch of sunshine in the window he slept in? PLEASE. People can be real idiots at times. No wonder I don't have a great fondness for most of the human race. Debbie |
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My apologies: I should have snipped the Cross-postings (Was: Supporting Sammy the post office cat)
"jmcquown" wrote in message ... We don't need those rec.pets.cats.health+behav people storming in here again. rec.pets.cats.anecdotes was created to get away from those people with their constanty criticisms and lack of a sense of humour. I apologize for not noticing this was crossposted in the first place before I replied to the original post (and to rpchb). Here come the trolls again. Dammit. Mary, you should know better. Jill I post to *both* rpca and H+B. I seldom cross-post, but this was one time I did because of the content. Cross-posting is usually better than multi-posting because the responses show up in both. As to trolls, we have had our own fair share. MaryL |
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Supporting Sammy the post office cat
"Stan Brown" wrote in message t... Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:10:35 -0600 from MaryL - OUT-THE-LITTER: People in a small town in Tennessee have rallied around to support Sammy the cat. Someone wrote a letter of complaint because the Post Office is a federal building and Sammy does not pay taxes. Therefore, the writer said, Sammy should not be allowed inside. Sammy was banned from the building because of that letter. My "urban legend" antennae are quivering. I searched at snopes.com but there's nothing there (yet) about this. If this is true -- which I doubt mightily -- then either there are significant facts we're not being told, or someone was monumentally stupid. Just for starters, the Post Office is legally not part of the Federal government but is a corporation. Then of course there are many humans who legitimately owe no taxes. If there is indeed a post office cat, and if it was indeed banned, I suspect it was on health and safety grounds, however specious they might be. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com Shikata ga nai... Did you look at the video? It's not long, and it should answer your question about being "real." One of the videos was on CNN.com yesterday, so it's a recent report. Here's the same video from a different location: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/...National_.html (Video) Most of us call it the Post Office. However, it is actually now the U.S. Postal Service--and, yes, it is part of the federal government. It is a wholly owned government corporation, and that *is* part of the U.S. Government. http://www.libsci.sc.edu/bob/class/c...ides/corp.html MaryL |
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Supporting Sammy the post office cat
"Linda Boucher" wrote in message ... | who ever wrote that letter should be ban from the post office for life....i | never heard of anything so stupid before...i would | say the cat as more right to be inside that post office than that person | does | It's not the person who wrote the letter that's at fault, it's the bureaucrat that threw that cat out that should be fired! |
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My apologies: I should have snipped the Cross-postings (Was: Supporting Sammy the post office cat)
"MaryL" -OUT-THE-LITTER wrote in message
. .. "jmcquown" wrote in message ... We don't need those rec.pets.cats.health+behav people storming in here again. rec.pets.cats.anecdotes was created to get away from those people with their constanty criticisms and lack of a sense of humour. I apologize for not noticing this was crossposted in the first place before I replied to the original post (and to rpchb). Here come the trolls again. Dammit. Mary, you should know better. Jill I post to *both* rpca and H+B. I seldom cross-post, but this was one time I did because of the content. Cross-posting is usually better than multi-posting because the responses show up in both. As to trolls, we have had our own fair share. MaryL I don't care where else you post; crossposting is frowned upon here. Check the rpca FAQ. At any rate, I sent Sammy a letter to his new P.O. Box. I sprinked some catnip on it Jill |
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Supporting Sammy the post office cat
"Stan Brown" wrote in message t... Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:10:35 -0600 from MaryL - OUT-THE-LITTER: People in a small town in Tennessee have rallied around to support Sammy the cat. Someone wrote a letter of complaint because the Post Office is a federal building and Sammy does not pay taxes. Therefore, the writer said, Sammy should not be allowed inside. Sammy was banned from the building because of that letter. My "urban legend" antennae are quivering. I searched at snopes.com but there's nothing there (yet) about this. It was on the national news, dipstick. |
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My apologies: I should have snipped the Cross-postings (Was: Supporting Sammy the post office cat)
On Jan 13, 12:14*pm, "jmcquown" wrote:
"MaryL" -OUT-THE-LITTER wrote in message . .. "jmcquown" wrote in message ... We don't need those rec.pets.cats.health+behav people storming in here again. *rec.pets.cats.anecdotes was created to get away from those people with their constanty criticisms and lack of a sense of humour. I apologize for not noticing this was crossposted in the first place before I replied to the original post (and to rpchb). *Here come the trolls again. Dammit. Mary, you should know better. Jill I post to *both* rpca and H+B. *I seldom cross-post, but this was one time I did because of the content. *Cross-posting is usually better than multi-posting because the responses show up in both. *As to trolls, we have had our own fair share. MaryL I don't care where else you post; crossposting is frowned upon here. *Check the rpca FAQ. At any rate, I sent Sammy a letter to his new P.O. Box. *I sprinked some catnip on it Jill- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -. Screaming "idiot" at a post you don't know, purely because you didn't agree with what they posted, is probably also frowned upon in the FAQ, don't you think? And *far* more likely to bring in what you refer to as "trolls" than anything Mary did. Get off her back. Perhaps in the future, anything crossposted between both cat groups could be noted as such in the header so that people who choose to reply with hatefulness will be fully aware their posts are appearing in another group. Sherry |
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My apologies: I should have snipped the Cross-postings (Was: Supporting Sammy the post office cat)
"Sherry" wrote in message
... On Jan 13, 12:14 pm, "jmcquown" wrote: "MaryL" -OUT-THE-LITTER wrote in message . .. "jmcquown" wrote in message ... We don't need those rec.pets.cats.health+behav people storming in here again. rec.pets.cats.anecdotes was created to get away from those people with their constanty criticisms and lack of a sense of humour. I apologize for not noticing this was crossposted in the first place before I replied to the original post (and to rpchb). Here come the trolls again. Dammit. Mary, you should know better. Jill I post to *both* rpca and H+B. I seldom cross-post, but this was one time I did because of the content. Cross-posting is usually better than multi-posting because the responses show up in both. As to trolls, we have had our own fair share. MaryL I don't care where else you post; crossposting is frowned upon here. Check the rpca FAQ. At any rate, I sent Sammy a letter to his new P.O. Box. I sprinked some catnip on it Jill- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -. Screaming "idiot" at a post you don't know At a post I don't know? Stan someone from H+B posted this was a false story, a hoax. It was posted here and there and I replied to it. I clicked on the link and read the story and watched the video. What didn't I *know*? purely because you didn't agree with what they posted, is probably also frowned upon in the FAQ, don't you think? And *far* more likely to bring in what you refer to as "trolls" than anything Mary did. Get off her back. How about you get off MY back? I didn't scream IDIOT at Mary. I called that person from H&B who called the news story into question a fidiot. It was apparent he didn't even watch the video; you could tell so even from Mary's reply to him. These are not the sort of people I wish to associate with. Yes, let's toss out the FAQ. Absolutely. If you want to encourage crossposting, go for it. Let's recombine all the cat newsgroups to we can argue continually. I've made a lot of friends here but if it's going to turn into The War of the Newsgroups again, heh... no problem. rpca is nice but it's not my life. Jill |
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Supporting Sammy the post office cat
"Johnny Pride" wrote in message ... listen bitch.......pets are not allowed inside our post office here.....they make smelly ****ing messes, leave paw prints on the ****ing floor and many people are allergic to them. You miserable people are all ****ing stupid, medication dependent wretches. You are even more worthless and bereft of logic than your mangy, lice-covered furballs. Well now, aren't you preshus. *pet pet pet* |
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Supporting Sammy the post office cat
Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:27:08 -0500 from cybercat :
It was on the national news, dipstick. Right, and everything that's on the news is true. Suuuuuurrrrrrreeeee. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com Shikata ga nai... |
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