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Show 875: Travelling With Your Pet in Stasis

Neal O'Carroll,

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Neal reviews his list of helpful animal TV shows with surprising additions, illuminates the double life of the consultant surgeon, looks at the pros and cons of taking pets through Customs in stasis, explores pre-surgery bathing, considers how Australians feel about how we feel about their popular culture, reveals why he seldom speaks his own name on this show, explains why you must never cut your dog’s tail off even when flying, exposes a possible synergy between end times preppers and amateur astronomers, remembers life in the second millennium and discusses the Coyote prey realism problem, the trouble with war games, Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, childish medicine packaging, not sidewalks, breakdown rescue, dogs as bus branding, making discount mushy peas palatable, the dark history of frontal lobe lobotomies, why doctors shouldn’t have books, bars of soap, an important note about Irish Spring, why your underground shelter needs a window, handling raw poultry and road runner meat, Quantum Leap, Michael Landon in Highway to Heaven, CSI Miami, CSI Kids, The Safety Dance in Grand Theft Auto, Phil Spector, Rolf Harris and more.

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LICENSE – Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 with attribution: by Neal O’Carroll.

Shorts 214: So You Just Fell Out of a Car

Neal O'Carroll,

What to Do When Someone Says “Look it Up”

Neal O'Carroll,

Whenever somebody barks “Look it up” in a heated online debate, I always oblige as a matter of respect, not for them, but for the only thing that really matters: the truth.

I set down my phone, calmly stroll over to our antique bookcase and consult a set of 1960s Colliers Encyclopedia that once belonged to my father. I methodically peruse and memorise the relevant entry, replace the volume, re-traverse the drawing room, pausing only to greet our cat Bowsy II, who likes to sleep on top of my childhood bear Bowsy on top of the bookcase. Some day, I tell Bowsy II, these Encyclopedias will belong to him, since nobody else seems to want them.

To say that Bowsy looks unperturbed could, in theory, leave one open to a charge of anthropomorphisation, the arbitration of which would probably involve proving whether or not an inaminate object that cannot be perturbed can be said to be unperturbed by default.

Bowsy II using Bowsy the Bear as a cat bed on top of bookcase.

However, once the prosecution realises I was talking about our real cat Bowsy II, and not Bowsy my inaminate childhood bear who serves as a cat bed, this issue becomes moot.

I then return to my phone, to recommence deliberations on the issues of the day.

More: Bowsy’s Complete Works (plus a biographical update) – Mid 2000s writings of a straight talking inaminate bear. | More writings |

First posted March 2020 on the book of faces.

Matchstick Cats 777: Are You Putting Unreasonable Standards on Your Cat?

Neal O'Carroll,
Matchstick Cats 777: Are You Putting Unreasonable Standards on Your Cat?

Shorts 213: You’re Not Dead Inside. As Far as can be Ascertained.

Neal O'Carroll,

Matchstick Cats 776: Guilty Pleasure

Neal O'Carroll,
Matchstick Cats 776: Guilty Pleasure

Shorts 212: You Could Accidentally Become a MONK? The Faulty Beads Hazard

Neal O'Carroll,

Show 874: You’re Nobody Without Opposable Thumbs, Supposedly

Neal O'Carroll,

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Neal wonders how dog rehab works, goes over what happens when you leave hospital without clothes, documents a decades old fake cinema facade with which you might identify, recalls the last time he learned something (2003), asks if opposable thumbs are worth the trouble, issues a stark warning about your waste disposal contraption, clarifies how Lighthouse entrance halls work, considers how emergency services deal with prayer related accidents, ponders whether abolishing Limbo will embolden it and discusses the phrase TMI, the song Yer Old by Reef, your longevity as a far future listener on Archive dot org, how a dog might fall out of a car, salt water accidents on land, ER scissors extravagance, In the Name of the Father (1993), half of Queen plus Paul Rodgers, an American Idol host clarification, public buildings with no walls, old school Monopoly, how a well meaning dog struggles to mind it’s own business, what US satellite radio can teach you about how to listen to this show and more.

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IN THE FAR FUTURE? Feeds broken? Site dilapidated? Everyone dead? No problem! Find hundreds of Into Your Head shows and Matchstick Cats comics on Archive dot org.

LICENSE: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 – Attribution: Neal O’Carroll.