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2015-03-18 The Grand Turk

Three ISIS-linked Britons arrested in Turkey, deported to UK

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Posted by Fred 2015-03-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
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#1 Britons?
No.
And now we have to deal with their shite.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2015-03-18 01:27|| 2015-03-18 01:27|| Front Page Top

#2 "All moggies must henceforth wear mittens
So's not to alarm Muslim Britons!"
The ghost of the Lion
Is surely denying
Such tortoise-shell toms are his kittens.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2015-03-18 03:39|| 2015-03-18 03:39|| Front Page Top

#3 :-)

Posted by trailing wife 2015-03-18 04:49|| 2015-03-18 04:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Bravo!

Posted by Steve White 2015-03-18 08:53|| 2015-03-18 08:53|| Front Page Top

#5 I thought I remembered that tortoiseshell cats are exclusively female, so I checked. According to Wikipedia, I am wrong. To whit:

Very rarely (approximately 1 in 3,000[9]) a male tortoiseshell or calico is born. These animals typically have an extra X chromosome (XXY), a condition known in humans as Klinefelter syndrome, and undergo an inactivation process like that in females. As in humans, these cats often are sterile because of the imbalance in sex chromosomes. Some male calico or tortoiseshell cats may be chimeras, which result from the fusion in early development of two embryos with different color genotypes. Others are mosaics, in which the XXY condition arises after conception and the cat is a mixture of cells with different numbers of X chromosomes.

Once again I've learnt something useful from one of Zenobia F's deceptively clever little limericks -- it seems he's to poetry what JosephMendiola is to prose.

Posted by trailing wife 2015-03-18 09:31|| 2015-03-18 09:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Thanks for the decryption, TW. I had no idea what Tortoise shell toms meant. Kinda sad, really, that it's come to this. Where are the soccer hooligans when you need them?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-03-18 12:23|| 2015-03-18 12:23|| Front Page Top

#7 Had a classic medium-haired tuxedo cat that wondered off to the dark side for a month. One Subday afternoon I watched a horrific looking cat stagger down the road towards me, my youngest asked with a hint of awe in his voice, "Sir is that a cat?" My only response could be,"You're damn straight that's a cat" and suddenly all I could hear was Bill Conti.

Took her to the vet for liquids and de-fleeing. BT the time she was back home (and back in charge) she was a classic tortoiseshell for a few years.

Posted by Shipman 2015-03-18 15:02|| 2015-03-18 15:02|| Front Page Top

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