Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for February 29, 2020

Uh, Elvis… Does the Mailman come on February 29th?

Don’t look at me, Elvis, I’m a Doctor Who fan. We mess around with weird time slippage, paradoxes, puzzles, and over-convoluted explanations for fun.

Does this mean the Good Boys are under four years old?

As long as we slip those extra days onto the end of June or September instead of prolonging one of the most miserable months of the year!

Happy Leap Day to Georgia and her family and all the cats of the BCN world!

Happy birthday to all birthday deprived leap babies!

Elvis: “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature!”

I’m surprised not to see Lupin LEAP in to this report.

Puck, your madness needs to be shared with others or it goes nowhere. The rest of the world will turn up March 1 on Sunday, while you are waiting on Feb 30th.

Don’t even start Elvis and my on Daylight Savings Time.

I’m retired, every day is extra time.

I WANT MORE PINS! NEW PINS! SO MANY OPPORTUNITIES NOT YET PINNED!

Tabitha, Figaro, Burt, Sophie, Baba, Tillie and the mice (robber and buzzy).

Build it and we will come.

Make them and we WILL buy them.

Pant Pant Pant Froth Whirl.

Sorry, just kind of coughed out.

This Public Service Message will be repeated on occasion.

It’s quite simple, actually. We add an extra day every four years so they don’t end up adding themselve to ground hog day, lest they go crazy and keep multiplying until someone learn some deep lesson. (Those extra groundhog days are very sneaky…)

Be careful about the contracts you sign, or you might end up like Frederick – indentured till his twenty-first birthday.“For some ridiculous reason, to which, however, I’ve no desire to be disloyal, Some person in authority, I don’t know who, very likely the Astronomer Royal, Has decided that, although for such a beastly month as February, twenty-eight days as a rule are plenty, One year in every four his days shall be reckoned as nine-and-twenty. Through some singular coincidence — I shouldn’t be surprised if were owing to the agency of an ill-natured fairy — You are the victim of this clumsy arrangement, having been born in leap-year, on the twenty-ninth of February. And so, by a simple arithmetical process, you’ll easily discover, That though you’ve lived twenty-one years, yet, if we go by birthdays, you’re only five and a little bit over ! "

And here I thought we’d already seen all the ways to drive Elvis crazy.

He’s messing with Elvis’ mind…

We have a leap day baby in our extended family. He has passed but we all still post birthday messages to his Facebook page so his widow and family will know he is not forgotten. Officially this would have been his 14 birth-day.

I love Puck’s gleeful abandon in panel 4.

You dunno about February 29, Elvis? Didn’t you notice that in 2016 and 2012 already?

We’re being bamboozled, folks. If February 29 is an extra day that isn’t usually there, why is today a working day? Where’s our extra pay for the extra day?

A day that suddenly appears outta nowhere. Now that’s a mysteriously mystifying mystery. And this looks like a job for ……

I love it when Puck messes with Mr. Fussy Paws!

Sure, why not have a February 30 too? This month always seemed short-changed for phone bills, banks, rent, etc.

Logically, we should have 13 months. Twelve of them would have 28 days and one 29 days in a normal year. In a leap year, the extra day could be tacked on to a different month, but for most of the year we’d have nice even 4 week months.

You know what it means on a Leap Year, don’t you Georgia?

In a leap year, you have to add another cat to the family! :))

Be careful and don’t get that tape stuck to your fur, Puck.

Poor Elvis and his “Scream” face.

Look! Georgia Dunn signed that calendar day so we know the extra day is her fault.

Every now and then, the folks who run the atomic clock add a leap second, and you probably don’t even notice.

Yum Yum is so far blissfully unaware that there’s an extra day tacked on this month and I’d like to keep it that way, thank you all kindly.

Eight years ago my beloved was dropping off a friend when a big white cat came up to him, meowing urgently. He thought “This is someone’s cat” and despite not being a cat person at all, he brought the cat home. It took a week of searching for the cat’s owner to realize the someone the cat belonged to was him.

Albert A. Cat is a joy and a delight and loves his Man more than anything in the world. We’re thankful every day that the Universe chose to give him to us.

[Note: he was actually found on the night of Feb. 28, but I alway associate his homecoming with Leap Day]

This “no consequences; live forever” plan of Pucky’s is perfectly sane and sound, and I plan to implement it at once.

Poor Elvis’s linear brain cannot fathom Pucky’s multidimensional, time is not linear universe. I suggest Elvis should hide under a blanket until it is safely March 1st.

Oh and a bonus, we may have glimpsed Pucky’s chart making table in panel 3.*

Based on an oldie by The Association: Goodbye, Columbus

Take a leap of faith, it’s a brand-new day!

Add an extra date, it’s a brand-new day!

It’s a brand-new for the Orb Friends!

It’s a great feeling that never ends!

Grab your calendar, it’s a brand-new day!

…….

Hello Friends, goodbye to worries,

Take it easy today, what’s your hurry?

You’re gonna see that Puck’s got it right!

Let your joy take flight!

…….

It’s a brand-new day!

Just for hoping,

And for being with Friends,

It’s a brand-new day,

Adding new days,

Forever just never ends!

It’s a day for starting a journey,

Taking a path beyond home!

It’s a day, with all of you Orb Friends,

You don’t need to be alone!

…….

Hello Friends, goodbye to worries,

Take it easy today, what’s your hurry?

You’re gonna see that Puck’s got it right!

Let your joy take flight!

It’s a brand new day! Yeah!

It’s a brand new day! Yeah!

It’s a brand new day! Yeah!

In Psalm 30:5 it says “Weeping may endure for a night, but Joy comes in the morning.” Wishing all my Orb Friends the Joy of a new day.*

Puck always has an open mind. This time, his brain seems to have fallen out of his widdle skull!

For Cat’s sake don’t add days to February! Add them to June.

Extra day and yet zero rain in Feb

Zero here, too. I am searching for the photo I took last year, with a ten-foot high wall of snow to compare with the one I just took showing only dirt.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

I am surprised that no-one noticed the Game Theory reference.

I think the “live forever” plan would work better with a warmer month.

Lots of Leap Year comics today.

February 32nd. It’s a thing.

Oh those (beautiful) blue eyes of Siamese indignity.

YUSSSSSSSSSS

The last panel is hilarious.

Puck, and the ‘Never-Ending Calendar’: “Come play with us, Elvis. Forever… and ever… and ever.” … :)

OT, but am I the last one to figure out that Lupin, while invisible, has been replacing the pot of dying/dead grass with a pot of fresh green grass?

Then there was the time that February had 30 days (but only in Sweden, I think).

they just mad that its 1 more day to hams and other foods

I get to be one of those time pocket birthday babies….im 10 today

Poor Elvis…..

Puck, stop breaking Elvis.

They should consider themselves lucky they didn’t live in the time of Pope Gregory XIII. One night everyone went to sleep. When they woke up the next morning, it was ELEVEN DAYS later! In 1582, October 5th thru 14th never existed.

Elvis is so easy to torture. And Puck just can’t help himself!

What, did Georgia and Stephan Pastis get together on strips?

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” ZB

I love Puck’s glee and chuckle at the horror poor Elvis is displaying! But why did he need to tape on the 29th? It’s already there!

I’m just happy it’s on a weekend day for once. Usually it’s on a Monday through Friday. Nice to have a extra day off from work.

I know it’s late in the day, but if possible, please offer up purrs and prayers to whatever higher power you identify with, for the swift recovery of those suffering from the coronavirus, for a halt to the spread of the virus, for a vaccine to prevent it, and for an effective cure to be developed for those who do become infected.

It looks like he’s cutting those dates from a calendar. But what kind of calendar has a 32 there to cut out!!?

Today is Leap Day. Anyone have any left over “lords a leaping” left over from the holidays?

They must be getting pretty stale, by now …

I think it should also be Lupin’s special day.

I have a theory, Puck… A GAME THEORY!!!

I like the extra days on the calendar. Decades ago I was auditing a company. Their accounting machine just kept adding days to December. Transactions were recorded as December 35th. They actually took place on January 4, but they went on the books in the previous year.