How Did I Survive Before Facebook?

Back in the days before Facebook, I would never have learned that my high school marching band drum major's daughter's friend's domesticated bobcat had been toilet-trained.

Comments

[Matt]

It's perhaps not as impressive as doing it w/ a domesticated bobcat, but our house-cat is also trained to use the toilet rather than a litter box. He doesn't flush, but alerts us to flush for him by scratching the back of the toilet seat.

[Facebooked]

Brilliant pos, Eric! On the same subject, I was so excited to find my junior high school girlfriend on Facebook recently. (The 8th grade "relationship" lasted about 10 days, I believe, but there was a great game of footsie in English class once.) After two months, I'm thinking that memory and mystery ("Wow, those were the days. I wonder what would have happened if we had stuck it out? I wonder what ever happened to her?") are far superior to actual, quotidian knowledge ("Oh, her cat is potty training and her kids are just as snot-nosed as mine.")

[Orin Kerr]

Maybe you would have learned it, but the hard way.

[Chris]

Is the cat Ginormous or is the toilet really small?

[Burt]

Chris: it's a bobcat...think Lynx. they are larger than domesticated kitties.

[Instalaunch]

now how many will post this post on their facebook page??

[jgreene]

I knew there was a reason I am reluctant to have a Facebook page.

[tom]

Those folks are lucky that cat has a sense of humor. There is no way I'd trust a bobcat to stay "domesticated" any longer than he just wants to.

[Judy]

How do I train my 4 cats to do that?

[Pence]

Charles Mingus, the jazz bassist, wrote a pamphlet about how to toilet-train your cat.

No, seriously.

http://www.mingusmingusmingus.com/Mingus/cat_training.html

[Christianmarks.wordpress.com]

Social media can rectify some of the injustices of the past. A college English professor once scrawled a comment in the margin of one of my papers that a certain of my sentences was well written, but wondered if it was my own. It was. According to Facebook, my former professor is still an ABD.