The Adventures of Cowboy Hazel

The following is from this morning. It is an instant messenger conversation I had with a coworker. It wasn’t about work. Well, at least there’s not any direct link to work that I can see.

N: i think Lucy needs a twitter account.
N: http://twitter.com/sockington
Me: lucy has one
N: for real?
Me: no
Me: holy shit
Me: 1.4 million followers
Me: cat people are so weird
N: yup
Me: i know of 3 different cats on facebook that are “friends” of my friends
N: they keep getting suggested to me
N: hahaha
Me: i refuse to befriend cats though
Me: however, i do have one dog as a friend
N: that’s cat-ist
N: species-ist
Me: yep. i’m speciesist
Me: sockington actually looks a lot like lucy
Me: but maybe thats just my speciesism — all cats look the same to me
N: hahahahahah

“I never know when to use apostrophes in its.”

“It’s actually pretty simple.”

“I know you put one in if you could say it is instead.”

“Yep. And if you can’t, then there’s no apostrophe.”

“Because it’s possessive?”

“You got it.”

“So, can you give an example?”

“The dog was barking because its collar was on fire.”