That cat is totally Salvador Dali! Or maybe Raul Julia in The Addams Family.

Totally!

In case you haven't already looked them up...
tocsin: 1. a signal, especially of alarm, sounded on a bell or bells.
2. a bell used to sound an alarm.

kopje: a small hill

Or, as I realized while reading recent newspaper headlines... sanctioned!

Tocsin and kopje.

Aren't raincoats great at funneling the water straight down the front?

It's beyond evil, what they're doing.

You are so going to love your 50s, which are a million times worse in this department.

Nooo!
I once left a half-finished can of diet Coke overnight on my desk in the lab at UCSB. The next morning I was like, mmmm, I'll have a sip of that.
Could have been worse. I only kissed the cockroach that turned out to be swimming in it.
Critters are amazingly resilient. Luckily, me too.

They are definitely somehow miles more tolerable than raisins.

Huh. As a raisin hater, I cannot get my head around this. But a part of me is also thinking I may have to try to make one to see what it's like.

I love how they're trolling him, though, with all those zombie hands bursting out of the ground to hold up a weirdly rotting looking world.

This might explain why I've never been brave enough to try mince pie!

Are you there for the raisins or the rum?

Not sure. Is there more to mince pie than bloated rum soaked raisins, sugar, and evaporated milk?