Is somebody missing a lampshade?
This week’s intro picture was taken shortly after I finished last week’s SYW post. I just happened to be peeking out the window and saw the neighbor had let their dog out to do business… and the poor thing is wearing the Cone of Shame. You can tell the poor doggy doesn’t look too happy about it either. No creature should ever be denied the unbridled pleasure of licking its most unmentionable areas…
As hard as it must be for a dog to have a cone attached to its neck, it’s even harder for me to share my world while confined to a straitjacket. But I’m going to give it a try just like I do every week. Questions, as always, by Melanie…
It’s time to burst your bubble…
What should you get rid off that would make your new year better, and why?
Last year’s calendar, or else I’ll end up being a day behind everyone…
Sorry we’re late to class, Mr. KOTT-AIR, but Epstein’s mother’s calendar is running slow…
What’s the most daring thing you’ve ever done?
Allowing myself to be recorded looking like a dumbass for several million people around the country to watch on TV…
This is getting embarrassing…. better hide behind Regis.
Does your family have a “motto” – spoken or unspoken?
No. But my blog does have a tagline, which for some reason, starting a few days ago, now appears above my header along with the redundant title of my blog. Maybe the 11 year old theme I used for The Nest is starting to show some cracks from its age…
Where all the cool squirrels hang out.
On a scale of 1-10 how funny would you say you are?
Well, I’m perfectly capable of entertaining myself with my sense of humor. And for the most part, my written humor is sculpted to make myself laugh. If it makes others laugh as well… that’s awesome! I’d say I’m an 8.5, personally. What do you all think?
Nobody asked for you guys’ opinions…
Tell everyone something that you found personally lifted your spirits!
Nothing quite lifts my spirits like some of my old comics. And who better to put us in a cheery mood than the grumpy old porcupine that made life miserable for my comic strip characters, Nabob! Here’s some of the best of The Nest’s very own nattering Nabob of negativism…
Evil Squirrel's Nest 
I love your cartoons. And now, it’s been so long since I first saw them, they seem brand new. It’s a DOUBLE WIN!
They seem that way to me too. Some I still don’t even remember drawing!
you are the funniest and best blogger of the world… and we think the motto evil squirrel furever would fit pawfectly!!!
I just need some twin squirrels in old blue dresses….
Thanks Bill for Sharing Your World! I’d give you a solid 10 on the hilarity scale…yep. And you just KNOW that anyone who is like myself, went scurrying up to your banner to see the new tag line. Yep. Perfect. Now about that ‘aging’ and ‘cracks in the seamless fluidity of your site’…what? Nah. Wine and cheese AGE, and become better (well the cheese might not, who really truly enjoys moldy cheese?) and people will pay thousands for an ‘old’ bottle of wine if it has the right label (geez we’re a shallow society ain’t we?) Your cartoons are always a welcome jog off life’s sad little path. All I want to know is, IF Nabob the Negative is also ‘old’ (in when the strip was drawn type of way), how come you portrayed accurately the scenario that happened with myself and some snotty little %!@# spawn of Satan unsupervised horrid neighbor kids? At whom yes I did screech “Get the %$!%@% off my %$#!@ LAWN!” I would think I might have scarred their burgeoning psyches, but I am with Nabob (no stick up my nethers though) … why don’t they go home and bother their parents? Those idiots had ’em, they must have wanted ’em. It’s an on-going battle and explains in part the hemmorhoids. Thanks again E.S.! You da squirrel!
Heck, I can’t even keep the adults off my lawn. Never buy a house without a fence… especially at the end of a cul-de-sac where you’re just asking to be the neighborhood “shortcut”….
Never expected to hear that famous Agnew phrase “nattering Nabob of negativism” here! If it’s any consolation, I think the Happiness Coaches at WP are working overtime making blog owners pull their hair out after the New Year. I’m still trying to figure out what they’ve done to mine. Maybe they’re just trying to get even for bad-mouthing at every opportunity that horrid Block Editor thing. I still hate it and pray the Classic Editor stays around for a good long while.
The only weirdness I’ve encountered is that big, honking blog title that now appears at the top of my page along with my cute little tagline. If that’s what it takes to keep them from axing Classic for good, then I guess I’ll tolerate it…
Good point. I’ll stop kvetching if I can keep classic. 😇
Going on TV was pretty daring. I’d never go near the front of any sort of camera, let alone one of those new-fangled “moving pictures” ones…
Just wait until Big Brother installs moving picture cameras everywhere….. oh wait, I think they’ve already done that!