Welcome to Thursday, June 18, 2026, and National Cheesemakers Day. Bless them all! Here is a picture of the cheese platter in one of my erstwhile favorite restaurants in Paris (Astier), where you could have as much and as many cheeses as you wanted after dinner.
And one of my favorite cheese stores in Paris. This is a but a small part of the selection, with the goat cheeses on the bottom shelf. Choose three of these, a baguette, and a bottle of wine, and you’ll have the makings of a fine picnic:
It’s also, coincidentally, International Picnic Day, International Sushi Day, and World Tapas Day.
There’s a World Cup Google Doodle today; click on the icon below to see where it goes:
Readers are welcome to mark notable events, births, or deaths on this day by consulting the June 18 Wikipedia page.
Da Nooz:
Footie news: England beat Croatia 4-2. From the BBC:
England made a winning start to their World Cup campaign as they overpowered Croatia in a thriller in Dallas.
Thomas Tuchel’s side demonstrated strength in attack and frailty in defence, but possessed the firepower to finally overcome Croatia and set the platform for progress in Group L.
Harry Kane put England ahead on 12 minutes with a twice taken spot-kick after Luka Modric fouled Noni Madueke, Croatia keeper Dominik Livakovic saving his first attempt but penalised for encroaching off his goalline.
Croatia, always dangerous opponents, were level after 36 minutes when Martin Baturina sent a powerful drive high past Jordan Pickford, who got a touch but could not keep the ball out.
Kane, inevitably, restored England’s lead three minutes before the break with a powerful header from Declan Rice’s corner, bringing him level with Gary Lineker on 10 World Cup goals, his 81st in 115 England appearances.
England, however, never looked at ease defensively, Croatia equalising again with a well-worked goal seconds before half-time, Petar Musa steering Ivan Perisic’s header beyond Pickford.
A video of the highlights (shorter videos aren’t available in the U.S.:
*The NYT has two views of the war, one from the U.S. side and the other from the Iranian. The U.S. article reports that Trump is in a bind because, to look good, he has to make a better deal with nukes than Obama did (article archived here).
Only minutes into a phone call to a New York Times reporter to explain the deal he had just agreed to with Iran, President Trump turned to an issue that clearly grates on him: the comparisons to the deal that President Barack Obama struck with Tehran in 2015.
The Obama deal, he said on Sunday evening, repeating a well-worn line, was “a disaster.”
“It was a road to a nuclear weapon and ours is a wall against a nuclear weapon in the truest sense of the word,” Mr. Trump said. “So let’s start there.”
Mr. Trump’s sensitivity is easy to understand. He campaigned against the Obama-era deal as far back as 2015, and ultimately killed it during his first term over the objections of many of his top national security aides. At the time, he had a long list of complaints about its failings. The 2015 accord “lifted crippling economic sanctions on Iran in exchange for very weak limits on the regime’s nuclear activity,” Mr. Trump said in a 2018 speech, and “no limits at all on its other malign behavior,” especially its support of terror activities around the Middle East.
. . .Now the moment of reckoning has come for Mr. Trump. He is caught in what could best be described as the Obama-deal bind.
The accord he described on Sunday is simply a cease-fire and an agreement to fully open the Strait of Hormuz for 60 days. It commits both sides to begin negotiating on the future of the nuclear program. So for now, there is no way to compare the old and new deals; they are completely different in nature.
Yet Mr. Trump clearly knows he must significantly improve upon Mr. Obama’s results in order to justify the huge human and economic cost of taking the United States to war over the past three months.
The 2015 deal resulted in shipping about 97 percent of Iran’s nuclear stockpile at the time out of the country. The fate of the current stockpile, a far more dangerous one, is undetermined, and Mr. Trump sounded on Tuesday as if he was in no rush to get the nuclear material out of Iranian territory. There is no resolution about how to deal with future nuclear research and enrichment activities inside Iran, or whether all of its major nuclear sites will be shut down. There is no discussion yet about limits on its missiles or of resumed support for what is left of militias it supports, such as Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis.
Trump is out of his depth here, and so am I. All I can say is that if Trump stops military activity now to negotiate for two months, it will be very hard for him to start military action again. Also, Iran always lies about its nuclear ambitions, and whatever deal is forged has to take that into account.
*And, on the other side, the NYT reports that (as expected), “Iran will enter nuclear talks feeling emboldened” (article archived here).
In the days after Iran and the United States reached a preliminary agreement to pause their war, Iranian politicians, generals, and clerics from a range of political factions described the deal as a victory that showed Tehran’s resilience against a far more powerful enemy.
That is the position Iran’s leaders are pushing even though the country lost a slew of its top political and military figures, suffered a battering to its stock of ballistic missiles and was left with an economy strained even further by a naval blockade.
“Iran has taken a major step toward final victory,” Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of the Iranian Parliament who has played a major role in negotiating the deal, wrote on social media on Monday.
As negotiators were nearing an agreement, Sadegh Amoli Larijani, chairman of a powerful appointed council that supervises the work of the government, wrote on social media on Saturday that Iranians had shown a “renewed spirit of resistance” and defeated U.S.-Israeli plans to overthrow the Islamic republic.
. . . . The style of Iran’s leadership has also changed as a result of the war. Some pragmatic figures, such as the national security official Ali Larijani, were killed, while the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps — the military force that defends Iran’s system of clerical rule — has consolidated power. The long-term impact of those changes is still to be seen, but the shifts raise the question of how willing the military, now even more powerful, will be to make serious concessions at the negotiating table.
Mr. Trump’s rhetoric also appears to be adding to Iranian leaders’ confident tone. The American president has publicly excoriated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel for mounting attacks on Lebanon that nearly derailed the U.S.-Iran deal, and he has described Iran’s current leadership, including the supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, as pragmatists.
On Tuesday, Mr. Trump said Iran’s leadership was now “rational,” compared to, in his view, the leaders who were killed at the outset of the war.
According to Mr. Trump’s account of the deal, Iran is to allow shipping through the Strait of Hormuz — a return to the status quo before the war. But in what is perhaps an indication of the leverage Iran feels it has, Tehran has indicated that it intends to charge ships for passing through the strait, which it did not do before the war.
“Iran is certain to be emboldened by this deal,” said Mehrzad Boroujerdi, an Iran expert at Missouri University of Science and Technology. “I cannot recall another instance in which Iran suffered such serious military setbacks yet emerged with what could be considered a diplomatic victory.”
What the deuce does Trump mean by saying that Iran’s leadership is “rational”? Of course it is; it’s getting what it wants. But it’s not rational in Trump’s sense, which means “seeing reason about nukes and terrorism.” I always entertained the hope that Trump was playing some kind of clever game, but now it’s clear that he didn’t know what he was doing.
*The WSJ has an item-by-item explication and analysis of the “memorandum of understanding” that’s serving as a framework for the U.S./Iran ceasefire. I’ll give a few items.
1. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States, together with their allies in the current war, declare upon the signing of this Memorandum of Understanding an immediate and permanent end to the war on all fronts, including Lebanon, and undertake that from now on they will not launch any hostile action against each other, and will refrain from the threat or use of force against each other. The final agreement will confirm the provisions of this Article and the remaining Articles.
WSJ analysis
The inclusion of Lebanon is highly controversial in Israel, which is fighting a war there with Hezbollah.
2. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States undertake to respect each other’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and to refrain from interfering in each other’s internal affairs.
WSJ analysis
President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began the war calling on Iranians to overthrow the regime, a goal that faded in Washington as the government in Tehran held firm.4. Immediately upon the signing of this Memorandum of Understanding, the United States Lift the naval blockade and prevent any interference or obstruction against the Islamic Republic of Iran, and restore traffic within a maximum of 30 days to its full capacity; the traffic of ships shall be proportional to the pre-war volume of traffic on the part of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The United States also undertakes to withdraw its forces from the surrounding areas within 30 days after the final agreement.
WSJ analysis
This is the meat of the initial deal, reopening the strategic Strait of Hormuz and winding down the war.10. The United States undertakes that immediately after the signing of this Memorandum of Understanding, and until the date of the lifting of sanctions, the United States Treasury Department will issue waivers for exports of Iranian crude oil, petrochemical products and their derivatives, and all related services, including banking, insurance, transportation, and the like.
WSJ analysis
A major upfront American concession freeing Iran to sell oil as it likes and reap the financial benefits.
13. Following the signing of this Memorandum of Understanding, and upon receipt of assurances regarding the commencement of implementation of Articles 4, 5, 10, and 11 of this Memorandum of Understanding, and the continued implementation of these steps, the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States will enter into negotiations for a Final Agreement solely with respect to the remaining Articles.
WSJ analysis
Limits the scope of discussion in the second phase, leaving out Iran’s ballistic missile program and its network of regional militias.
*Here’s Jonathan Conricus, who used to be the main spokesperson for the IDF but is now a non-IDF commenter, describing why the sentiment of the entire political spectrum in Israel is “bitterness towards Trump” and a feeling that the “evilian Iranian regime” has won at the negotiation table.
All I can say is to echo Bret Stephens:
I write this as someone who supported the war from the outset and hoped to see Trump carry it through to a decisive result: if not regime change, then at least a deal in which Iran would be forced to relinquish all of its enrichment capabilities and access to the Strait was unfettered. Those goals were well within the president’s reach, particularly if he had continued to attack Iran’s military-industrial infrastructure until it agreed to terms, rather than conducting most of the negotiations after the fighting had mostly stopped.
Iran is surely happy that it seems to have driven a wedge between the U.S. and Israel. And it’s not just Netanyahu, either: any Israeli PM who tries to defend Israel against terrorism can expect little help from Trump, and even less help from any future Democratic President.
*The Babbling Beaver, the spoof magazine of MIT, has highlighted Luana’s Heterodox STEM post which I wrote about the other day (she attended two lectures on “fat studies” that purveyed a lot of harmful misinformation). The Beaver’s piece is called “Williams College: Where the belly of the beast comes to weaponize fatties.” (Luana teaches at Williams.)
Williams College has developed a robust curriculum in what its more outspoken social justice warriors call Fat Studies. Regular offerings over the years have included a seminar titled Don’t Tell Me to Love My Body, a workshop on Fatphobia and Body Liberation, and sundry other learning opportunities where undergraduates could expand their consciousness to match their waistlines. A Williams biology professor, troubled by the assault on empirical science these events represent when it comes to health problems caused by obesity, recently published a careful and restrained account in Heterodox STEM, declining to name names out of professional courtesy.
The Babbling Beaver labors under no such compunctions.
The 2026 Michael A. Dively ’61 Lecture on LGBTQ+ Life and Cultures — endowed by a formerly closeted Republican Michigan state legislator who found his true calling funding queer theory at his alma mater — presents this year’s adipose luminary: , self-described “Black, fat, queer and trans theorist and abolitionist,” and author of Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness.
Harrison’s thesis, stated without embarrassment, is that observing a person’s obesity is an act of racism; that medicine’s interest in weight loss is rooted in white supremacy; and that the entire edifice of nutritional science is a racial project dressed up in a lab coat. Cornell’s gender studies department arrived at similar conclusions and responded with pole dancing therapy.
Harrison made it clear: your scale is racist, your doctor is a Klansman, and the Cheetos are innocent. Corpulent Williams students in attendance, each paying $84,000 a year for the privilege, nodded gravely. One was overheard whispering that the buffet table at the reception was, itself, a form of reparations.
Williams is paying for this. We all may be laughing but Williams’ STEM professoriate is not.
Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Andrzej is being the Jon Haidt of Poland:
Hili: Schools should bring back calligraphy lessons.
Andrzej: Why do you think that?
Hili:So children’s brains can take a break from clicking.
In Polish
Hili: Powinni w szkołach przywrócić lekcje kaligrafii.
Ja: Czemu tak sądzisz?
Hili: Żeby mózgi dzieci mogły odpocząć od klikania. So children’s brains can take a break from clicking.
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Here’s the final iteration of a caricature of myself I made on ChatGPT. There are at least five changes from the previous version; can you spot them without looking back?
From Bad Spelling or Grammar on Signs and Notices:
From Cats Doing Cat Stuff: the fortune says, “You will take a chance in the near future.”
Masih is very quiet about what’s happening with Iran; I imagine she’s distraught.
From Larry, who notes (and it’s true) that some bars in Boston ran out of beer because of the thirst of Scottish soccer fans:
As I was saying: https://t.co/vaiXAKBJfl
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) June 17, 2026
One I found about the ceasefire framework:
— Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer (@EvanKirstel) June 15, 2026
From Luana, a 216-page report of “grooming gangs” and “rape gangs” in the UK (report is here).
The Rape Gang Inquiry Report.https://t.co/EuKgGWBRhS pic.twitter.com/SD5G9HPVtV
— Rupert Lowe MP (@RupertLowe10) June 16, 2026
Two from my feed. I think this first experiment needs a control: a man making noise and calling the horses but not making music:
A man was singing out in a field when something truly beautiful happened. This is why music will always feel like a universal language of love for humans and animals 🥹 Via jumesofficial, Things You Didn’t Know, Axel Vasa
pic.twitter.com/mdp82xZKdY— Enezator (@Enezator) June 17, 2026
Styling a hijab, which is not illegal:
Iranian hairstylist Ami Moghaddam got death threats from the Islamic regime simply for posting haircut videos.
She then responded with this hilarious troll video that’s going viral.😂 pic.twitter.com/mdlHZWDig8
— Neo (@Realneo101) June 17, 2026
One I reposted from The Auschwitz Memorial:
This Belgian Jewish girl was gassed to death shortly after arriving at Auschwitz. She was 12 years old. https://t.co/5SHnhAhNOs
— Jerry Coyne (@Evolutionistrue) June 18, 2026
Two from Dr. Cobb. First, stabilizing sexual selection: a male changing his courtship won’t appeal to females. But female preferences may change more easily:
These dune flies perform 41 courtship moves, but isolated populations still kept nearly identical routines. Only the timing of one wing movement showed a hint of divergence. doi.org/cmdm6b
— Science X / Phys.org (@sciencex.bsky.social) 2026-06-15T15:20:21-04:00
Matthew and the Matterhorn. He’s now spent a day in Lyon and is on his way to Arles, famous for being Van Gogh’s village:
Me below Sunnegga
— Matthew Cobb (@matthewcobb.bsky.social) 2026-06-15T13:32:30.285Z
“… where undergraduates could expand their consciousness to match their waistlines.”
😂
… and magnificent pic of The Matterhorn, wow.. that village! Take me home … Country road…
What a wild variety of material today!
Honestly, I doubt we are done with Iran. I suspect Iran will balk at a definitive agreement and then we’ll be back at it.
Honestly, I hope you are correct. Trump has surrendered and has sold Israel out. (As I always say, only a fool trusts Trump). Let us hope something happens before this impending disaster is fulfilled.
There are many likely developments that will break this thing down. But in reality, I doubt we will ever really start the war again. Public opinion, mid-term elections, and the expensive task of hauling our carrier ships back to the area in when they are needed elsewhere are all strong disincentives.
Trump is done. He won’t go back.
I hope I’m wrong but I fear I’m not. He gave away far more than he had to. He wants out badly.
Garry Kasparov goes through all 14 points with commentary, suggesting “At this point, I am expecting to see a new Trump Tower rise over the Tehran skyline.”
https://www.thenextmove.org/p/trumps-14-point-iran-deal-annotated
I hope you mean all those involved in the dairy industry not just cheese makers.
Good one!!
I’m not sure I believe my eyes–just read that we’re sending 300 billion of our tax dollars to Iran? Is that true or fake news?
There are a lot of politicized snippets out there that say so. But actually it isn’t taxpayer money. It does have the taint of reparations, though. Here is what Google AI sayz:
The details of the $300 billion plan include:
The waistline problem reminded me of all the soccer players who got into trouble with their managers for carrying extra weight: the Brazilian Ronaldo was one of them. I think he said that the medication he was taking for his knee injuries was causing him to gain weight. I don’t know enough to evaluate his claim, but he was struggling with weight issues at the age of 30.
Pep Guardiola dropped Samir Nasri and Yaya Toure for carrying extra fat 🙂
I think we need to be patient. There have been few American casualties. We forced Iran to play the Strait of Hormuz card, which will prompt a response from the Gulf states. We tried out a bunch of new weapons and gave our military some experience on a modern battlefield. We have learned that we need to build far more missile interceptors and anti-drone weapons.
Trump gave the Iranian people an opening, which they did not take. They may not get a better chance at overthrowing the regime for a while. It is still possible that “peace” may be more dangerous for the regime than war.
There has been a regime change of sorts. It seems like the military now runs the show instead of the theocrats. The stuff about the “Hidden Imam” always made me nervous. Perhaps their behavior will change.
Instead of a war hawk, Trump comes across as pretty dovish. The good cop to Netanyahu’s bad cop. I suspect the “bad blood” between these two is a fiction designed to serve domestic political constituencies.
In sum: America has kept its powder mostly dry, and the conflict is not over yet.
The US conducted a war in Vietnam for no good reason, under Johnson and then Nixon; suffered ~58,000 military deaths, and damaged the lives of millions of draft-age citizens, before finally pulling out after ~7 years. This war against Iran’s drive to nuclear weapons had a defensible reason; after all of 13 military deaths, and a public problem only of increased gasoline prices, current US government has now pulled out after only a few months. There certainly has been a change in the US, regardless of whether this change is positive or negative (or, I would say,, both).
I agree with Bret Stephen’s analysis.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/opinion/iran-us-war-trump-cease-fire.html
For those who do not know, the “Rape Gang Inquiry Report” above is not a government report. It was conducted by Rupert Lowe, the founder of the Restore Party (who did so after being thrown out of Reform for complicated and unclear reasons. He was accused of bullying staff, but that accusation may have been motivated by Lowe’s criticism of the Reform leadership.) It is curious that it was published one day before an important by-election in which Restore is likely to prevent Reform winning, allowing a win by Labour and the replacement of Starmer by the resulting winner, Andy Burnham.
This report plays fast and loose with statistics, claiming in “It has been previously established that, at the very least, 250,000 young white girls have been subjected to repeated rape, gang rape, trafficking, torture, pregnancy, forced Islamic conversion, and lifelong trauma.” This figure is arrived at by assuming the rate of such offenses in Rotherham applies to the whole country. This has not been established. This probable exaggeration must be set against the official enquiry, which is strongly biased against finding anything, so desperate is the establishment (not just the Labour Party) to avoid the civil unrest that could be precipitated by the facts and their cover-up by local councils and police forces.
Lowe is finding an audience among the supporters of Tommy Robinson and acting as a spoiler that will keep Labour in power by splitting right-leaning voters into three camps (Tory, Reform and Restore).
Thanks for that Christopher, I notice stuff in the UK (being an Anglophile Islamophobe) and I actually thought the report was a government report.
Your Mr. Lowe is a pretty extreme guy, but he fills a void in British politics.
To quote David Frum: (approx) If normal politicains don’t control immigration people will elect fascists to do so.
And I’ve seen there’s some dispute as to the exact number of white (and Sikh) girls victimized in this amazing national disaster, but to me it is a bit like saying “How many Palestinians have been killed in Gaza?”. The bigger problem (in both situations) is a certain religion and its ideology.
best regards,
D.A.
NYC 🗽
I have seen a lot of clips of the guy who sings to animals. Gorillas, lions, rhinos, and the like. They commonly come over and interact up close and personal, showing affection to him and to each other as they crowd around (like a huge rhino nuzzling him, or lions, pressing close behind safety glass and grooming each other). It’s’ hard to not believe that they are somehow entranced by music, but I should agree that we need a negative control of these impressions.
Yesterday’s photo of and dialogue with Hili was so lovely and so sad ….
I think any human who acts in ways that advance what he says are his goals and interests is thinking and behaving rationally. An employee who says he wants to advance in the firm but insults his boss is probably behaving irrationally, unless he knows something about the boss’s personality that we don’t, and is playing him. Women who play hard to get seem to be behaving irrationally to those of us not good at deciphering social cues but since they are testing commitment in suitors, which is in their interest, they are rational. (The whole mating game seems irrational sometimes, soaked in hormones as it is. And it does produce many rejected losers, who naturally regard the process as irrational therefore.)
When President Trump says the new Iranian regime is “rational”, he doesn’t mean, “Finally! Someone who sees it our way on nukes and terror and will abandon them because we want them to.” Rather, he means he thinks they will look at nukes and terror in the context of, “Does pursuing these ambitions advance our stated earthly goals?” The answer might sadly be Yes: it is easy to come up with reasons rational even to us why the new regime might see both in its long-term interests to ensure its survival if it can get away with them. Why did Israel and Pakistan develop nuclear weapons? To deter their enemies. If the new regime persists in supporting terror, it must have some reason, even if the reason is no more developed than antisemitsm and anti-western animus. It’s more likely pursuit of power in some way.
But the answer might also be No. It might be that the only reason Iran was developing nukes and exporting terror was as part of a religious “Twelver” eschatology that demands the chaos of End Times before the Mahdi will de-occult himself. We, and even less extreme Shi’a Muslims, regard this as an irrational thought process (although it’s really rational, to believers in it. They want it to happen, so they take steps to make it happen.) The important thing is that a “rational” regime speaks our language because it is deterrable in the earthly domain by the threat of nuclear retaliation, the gluons that have held the world’s fissile nuclei together since 1949, instead of seeking its own nuclear destruction precipitated by its first use against Israel, thus achieving Heaven on earth.
Or it may just be that Donald Trump lacks the vocabulary to express what he really means by the “rational” compliment.
Well put. Rational = deterrable.
I take the jihadis at their word when they say “we love death as you love life.”
Deterrable is a win.
Things look exciting today both for our D.A. in nyc and our Jerry in chicago: Knicks hero parade and the Obama Center dedication which looks to be just couple of blocks from Jerry’s daily walk from crib to office. I hope that you guys get to enjoy some of the urban excitement.
Thank you, Jim.
PCC(E) has more prestige in his ‘hood than I, but we’ve got a ticker tape parade here!
Even if one isn’t a sports fan (HA! I didn’t even watch the game/s) the vibe, plus the World Cup imput, is great.
Saw two sets of young British accented guys, one set in actual kilts, get out of taxis downstairs today, obviously off to see a game. 🙂
D.A.
NYC 🗽
It’s good that the Strait of Hormuz will be opened.
What’s next? From Iran’s standpoint, the best thing would be for the U.S. military to stand down, because once U.S. forces stand down, it will be hard to bring them back in. The dollar cost and cost in public support would be too great. So, I’m guessing that Iran will behave well during the next 60 days.
But it remains to be seen if Iran will really negotiate away its nuclear program. My guess is no, and that the 60 days will turn into 90 days, etc., as the agreement allows. Iran may even be able to drag negotiations out until the Trump administration is no more.
And speaking of delay, I’m terribly disappointed that the Trump administration recklessly linked Lebanon to the MOU. Since Israel has no choice but to protect its people, any Israeli action against Hezbollah in Lebanon gives Iran a reason to call foul—causing, you guessed it, delay. Since Iran controls whether Hezbollah provokes Israel or not, Iran is in the driver seat.
Israel will just have to ignore Iran’s protestations when it strikes back at Hezbollah in Lebanon, even pre-emptively. If the American President complains to Israel that her actions are impeding progress on a deal, or that Iranians are going to molest shipping again, the Israeli PM needs to shrug: “Don’t look at us. You made the foolish promise. We didn’t.” But yes, if there’s was ever a time for the “Israel lobby” (whatever that is) in Washington to get busy, this is it. A time to be glad that money talks in American politics.
PCC(E) took a few years off his chat GPT picture, I note.
I must have missed that 40th birthday he evidently just had. 🙂
I wish I went on vacation with Mathew Cobb, he seems to have the best time.
That said, we’re sitting pretty here in Manhattan at the moment. We have an actual ticker tape parade, like old school 1960s astronauts downtown.
American and NYC style greatness which I, for one, am very happy to see back!
D.A.
NYC 🗽
RE JAC: “There are at least five changes from the previous version [of the AI generated image of Jerry]; can you spot them without looking back?”
I’ll give it a try:
1. Jerry is wearing cowboy boots
2. Photo of Frances Crick
3. J is toasting the viewer with a pint of his favorite ale Timothy Taylor’s Landlord – maybe this explains why Jerry looks younger. You drink a few these pints, and you feel significantly younger.
4. Koyenezaa holidays
5. The cat in J’s lap has a name tag with Jango written on it. Also the cat is in Jerry’s lap instead of just in the foreground of the image. I think in the previous image there were 3 cats. This time Jerry seems to be going for quality instead of quantity.
6. Out on the pond, there are many more ducks – I think there was only one before
7. candy canes
8. WEIT – 3 reasons are given. I think that slate looked different before.
9. menorah
10. J’s desk name plate seems to be different too. What does cat entendre mean in this context? I know double entendre. Et je parle français aussi. (That Jerry is some kind of cat whisperer?)
11. The NATURALIST AT HEART duck thingy seems also new.
I do not have the photos at hand now, but I can think of five. ost of the pictures are identical.
In the new version:
I have no cat ears
I have no whiskers
My legs are showing
I am wearing cowboy boots
I am drinking Landlord
I think the rest is the same.