Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for September 10, 2024

And the plug is behind the very heavy TV and stand!

Big mouth on the TV. No wonder it’s so loud!

It doesn’t take Goldie to figure out this mystery.

When has anyone ever heard of TV buttons becoming jammed with peanut butter in a house with children?

Unplug the TV from the wall, and the ghost of Monty Hall shall be thwarted! Or would you like to see what’s behind the curtain????

Peanut butter or something . After last week’s cavalcade of toebeans I would bet the something is toebean squeee.

Burt’s snark comes to the forefront.

Alright, gotta ask: crunchy or smooth? and which is the favorite brand in your home, childhood or now?

Clearly, a nefarious plot long in the making.

We need Goldie on the case!

MAD Magazine had a “TV Hate” list by Al Jaffee. There was a guy whose kids had removed all the knobs off the set and he was having to turn the channel with pliers, and it was either him or somebody else who found the knobs covered with peanut butter. The jar on top of the set read “YECCHH! Peanur Burr”.

Gee, Woman, have you forgotten you have children?

Turn the thing off at the plug, woman! (Geez, that makes me sound like my grandfather…)

I took a nap late this afternoon and I dreamed that the TV kept skipping channels and I couldn’t make it stop. I used the remote to try to turn it off, but the remote wasn’t working and it wouldn’t turn off. I turned off the wall switch but the TV still wouldn’t turn off. Then the dream morphed as dreams often do and I was out in my driveway eating a tomato and telling my neighbor that tomatoes were 97% water at which point my neighbor took a big watermelon out of the trunk of his car. When I woke up I was thirsty, and I had fallen asleep with the TV on which might explain why I couldn’t manage to turn it off in my dream. Now I’m craving a bacon and tomato sandwich and a slice of watermelon!

OT: May be coming home early

Are all of the humans vampires? Because sometimes when the woman’s teeth are sticking out, they are pointy like a vampires. Plus, on the TV i’m pretty sure those are fangs.

Seriously, if someone can’t get to the power source, is it safe to trip the circuit breaker?

Breaking Cat News: Along the upper Texas Gulf coast, the Spare Cat Hurricane Safety Plan has been activated. All Spare Cats (loose neighborhood cats) have joined us inside the house, while we closely watch the approach of Tropical Storm Francine.

Plug your ears, and start cleaning out those buttons, woman! And this could not be based on real life, right? Nod nod wink wink!

Pretty much all of my plugs are on smart plugs or extension cord smart cords that plug in flat on the wall so I can get my furniture close against the wall. I don’t think I’ll ever make the mistake of plugging something in again that I can’t get to in a hurry. So, it’s Alexa, [insert plug name] on, or off, and there I go. No more problems.

A TV with knobs/buttons, must be really old. Haven’t had a set with them for years!

Well just pulls the plug to shuts it down.

The remote control going missing happens all the time in our home.

What is happening to Breaking Cat News and GoComics why do most comments have barely any replies and have likes more than replies?

Facebook and forums are dead,Instagram, Twitter and Reddit are going to die soon.

We need to keep GoComics alive, I miss my first 2 years in GoComics it was the best years in this website.

Could this be a crime where the usual suspects (the kids) are not at fault? This is a job for Goldie, plus the Robber Mice are due for a visit, perhaps they can render assistance. If it was March, I would blame that ill-tempered leprechaun who has scared the kids and painted Iggy green on back to back St Patty’s Days….

You and me, I’m at loss for words

I like to laugh at you tho’ most shows are for the birds

Sometimes I’m crazy and you wonder why

I’m such a baby ’cause your loudness makes me cry

Well there’s nothing else to do

I’m looking for the remote for you

I only wanna see “The View”

/Darius Rucker, Dean Felber, Jim Sonefeld, Mark Bryan /Only Wanna Be with You / Hootie & the Blowfish

Lost remote, tv too loud, all the buttons jammed with peanut butter or something. This sounds like a parenting problem.

Use your foot, hard!

I miss the large-format BCN comics. To Georgia Dunn: My wish is that you could produce a new set of comics in your old format. Put them in a book and I will buy it. Put them online and I’ll pay to read them.

Do TVs still plug into the wall? If so, I may have a temporary solution for you.

Better then than me to live in such a chaotic house. I’d have a meltdown. But I love reading about it.

Sarcastic chyrons, my favorite! Too loud and jammed with peanut butter sounds like it could be a description of the children rather than the trouble their antics possibly caused.

I smell a mystery!

I used to love Peter Pan, crunchy, creamy, didn’t matter, then about 4 years ago I developed an allergy to peanut butter – so sad :( I definitely enjoy cashew butter, it is my favorite replacement, not fond of almond butter but sunflower seed butter is really good, too!

So. Those with children/grandkids/whatever: Is the TV’s image from an actual program?

Mostly creamy, but when I make peanut butter cookies, I like to use crunchy.

Thinking of Monty Hall, as I was instantly this morning…… I began pondering the “Monty Hall Problem” As in you pick door#1. He reveals door #2 to be a booby prize….Then asks if you’d like to switch to door #3. Thus changing, so some mathematicians say, your odds from 1 in 3 to 50/50. There’s more math to it than that, but anyway…. This left me with the image of Dr Who, played by Tom Baker, going head to head with an EVIL ALIEN game show host who presents the Doctor with a 3 door choice. Pick the wrong door and his companion, let’s say Sarah Jane, dies. I don’t have an ending, just the banter back and forth that might have occured.

As for the Monty Hall Problem, I think the answer to it being legitimate or not is behind door #3.

Just unplug it.

First, unplug the TV so you can stay sane. Second, get the best sniffing cat to track down the peanut butter trail.

Yuck, I hate peanut butter. Just the smell of it makes me feel nauseous.

OT: Mom, her new ears, & her TV

Maybe unplug the TV until you can clean the buttons and/or find the remote.

Who are we to judge? TV might taste great with peanut butter!

O.T. — Made my day!

THIS – THIS is why I generally keep control of the remote. The Spousal Unit tends to just put things down wherever he happens to be when he stops using them … then, predictably, has no clue where said things are when he needs them again.

Since I am not a fan of playing hide and seek with inanimate objects, I have spent YEARS training myself to put things down in the specific spot where they belong. That way, I always know where the remote is … unless the Spousal Unit used it after I went to bed.

I finally noticed that the September 2024 calendar picture has little lines around Puck: he is rocking OZ as she sleeps on his shoulder!

I was playing around with my phone’s remote control app. It is very silly. If you’re looking for it, the phone will display a blue “radar” type circle and beep with a flashing dot indicating what direction your remote is in. Then it tells you it’s HERE. Within a few inches. But the silliest thing to me is how it operates. It won’t turn the TV, this model anyway, on or off, but will turn the streaming device on and off. To change channels you use your finger ,as you would on a trackpad, to slide around to your desired target. Then click. And, of course, the sensitivity of that trackpad area is set to whatever default setting the phone has, until you change it that is. So, useful, but not that useful. LOL

My wife complained bitterly when we had to replace the huge CRT TV with a flat screen modern device. She wanted it to have buttons on the TV for all the functions. I explained it would have to have about 150 buttons and would cost $5000 for a small TV to duplicate the functionality of a remote control.

Good afternoon. Lots of stuff happening. I’ll make a longer post when i have time. :)

Organic and crunchy on toast. No jam.

OT: House and other stuff

You can always use Ctrl-A.C.

We have 2 remotes. It comes in handy.

Pull the plug.

THE CHILDREN HAVE SABOTAGED THE MAGIC SCREAMING BOX

OT: weird ad blocker on gocomics