I have witnessed the birth of a glurge!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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A cow-orker just sent out a mass email to the department about a call she just had in which a customer’s house was burning down. Firefighters filled the basement with water. The customer had a dog and a pregnant cat who live in the basement and so he was worried for their safety. When they were able to re-enter the house, the dog was found in the basement, swimming, with the cat perched safely on its back.

Of course I’m not forwarding it to anyone but I can name at least four people in the department who will send it to everyone they know.

So in a month when you get this email from a friend who tells you it happened to a friend of a friend, with some lesson about the love of Jesus grafted to it, you know where it came from. And I apologize.

Should I alert Snopes now?

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. . . And each newborn kitten was sitting atop the other’s shoulders, while “By a Waterfall” played softly in the background . . .

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Awwww, that’s sweet. Of course if I get emailed it over and over I won’t think that, but your post made me smile.

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Cool! I would think Snopes would be very interested in hearing from you.

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Hmmmm. On second thought, having lived with cats for years, I know what mean little buggers they can be. The dog was probably trying like heck to get the cat off of him.

6

So you mean this actually happened Otto?

Do you mean to say that not only did you witness the birth of glurge, but the birth of glurge that’s true???

The mind boggles

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Well, at this point it’s true.

When you get the email, it will probably have the dog giving mouth-to-mouth on the cat, and little jesus faces on all the kittens.

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OK, now I won’t be able to sleep for a week.

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I wouldn’t be too sure it gets sent widely. I once emailed a true story to a friend I knew to be deeply religious, regarding my boss’s daughter’s friend’s sister (that’s as far as it goes I swear), who had been in a horrible car accident requiring a helicopter to get them to a hospital. The girl hadn’t been wearing a seatbelt, yet was miraculously alive with few injuries. And had two bruises in the shape of handprints around her hips, as if some invisible presence had held her securely in her seat.

I admit, I did it just to see if it would spread. Never heard about it again…

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I already know exactly who’s going to send it to me, too: a co-worker of my husband’s named Tina who forwards every stinking glurgy-glurge email she gets. The more >>>>>>>'s the better. :rolleyes:

God help me, Otto, if I get this “House Afire, Flooded Basement, Dog Saved the Pregnant Cat, Hand Of Jesus Guided Them All” thing, I’ll know who to blame. :wink:

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You mean, the kittens’ faces will vaguely resemble the Messiah? Or do you mean the face of Jesus will appear elsewhere on the kittens, tortilla-like, say in an especially evocatively pinched butthole?

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Hey, don’t blame me. I’m not forwarding it to anyone!

Oh gawd, now the damn “teamwork award” has been passed on. Here comes the flood of emailed "reply to all"s saying “congratulations!” that no one needs to see but the recipient.

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You mean, like, Jesus just ate a lemon?

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Lemons make the baby Jesus screw up his face like an evocatively… no.

Anyway, that’s what glurge should be: funny, true, and cute.

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That is so sweet. The cat probably thought “Sink, swim, or die. While you make a decision I’m just gonna take up squatters rights on your back, I was here first”. Oh and by the way Jesus face has been spotted on a pecan tree. But you didn’t hear it from me.