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#1141
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The most Miataturbo day ever:
Braineack loads up his turbo 1.6L Miata with his long-haired cat (on a purple leash) and his photo equipment to take a nice drive to the park. There, Braineack sets up his full photoshoot gear: lighting umbrellas, tripods, etc.
To take pictures...
of his cat.
On a leash.
And it never occurs to him to think that might be anything other than perfectly normal.
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For serious, great photos. It's just some weird imagery picturing the actual operational reality of that scene.
Braineack loads up his turbo 1.6L Miata with his long-haired cat (on a purple leash) and his photo equipment to take a nice drive to the park. There, Braineack sets up his full photoshoot gear: lighting umbrellas, tripods, etc.
To take pictures...
of his cat.
On a leash.
And it never occurs to him to think that might be anything other than perfectly normal.
![](https://www.miataturbo.net/images/smilies/bowrofl.gif)
For serious, great photos. It's just some weird imagery picturing the actual operational reality of that scene.
#1147
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yours truely presents: After work cat grooming
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#1152
I identify as a bear.
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^ This is srs bsns.
When I was maybe 12 or 13, we lived across the street from a man named Joe Melton. Mr. Melton was retired, and spent his days puttering around town in a little white pickup truck, doing odd jobs here and there.
One winter morning (winter = 60° in that part of Florida), Mr. Melton went outside and started his pickup truck as he did every day, and heard a series of unusual and somewhat startling noises from under the hood.
As it happens, a cat had climbed up onto the warm engine the previous night, and fallen asleep in such a position that its midsection was more or less perfectly perpendicular to the path of the alternator belt.
When an adult cat is drawn sideways through the accessory drive system of a running engine, the results are spectacularly and almost uniquely gruesome. Fortunately, the front half of the cat did not live very long thereafter.
When I was maybe 12 or 13, we lived across the street from a man named Joe Melton. Mr. Melton was retired, and spent his days puttering around town in a little white pickup truck, doing odd jobs here and there.
One winter morning (winter = 60° in that part of Florida), Mr. Melton went outside and started his pickup truck as he did every day, and heard a series of unusual and somewhat startling noises from under the hood.
As it happens, a cat had climbed up onto the warm engine the previous night, and fallen asleep in such a position that its midsection was more or less perfectly perpendicular to the path of the alternator belt.
When an adult cat is drawn sideways through the accessory drive system of a running engine, the results are spectacularly and almost uniquely gruesome. Fortunately, the front half of the cat did not live very long thereafter.