Gatsby and Heathcliff had very bad endings because of who they loved. And Kit and Angora are in a soap opera which allows no one to be happy for more than a few weeks.
“I left to make my own fortune.” Because everybody knows how easy that is! (Of course, it’s impossible if you refuse to try, so there is that.)
Yes, the Grumbling Room is still open (still needs to be open), so let us commence snacking! I’m not normally much of a salad eater, that’s kind of a every once in a while thing for me, but yesterday I had a sudden craving after reading @BaconBoyCamper ’s post. In any case, the Grumbling Room is open for whatever anyone cares to bring in. I still have some ginger snaps left over (they actually get better with age, if you can leave them alone long enough).
Natasha, let’s talk. I need some brick cheese for a Detroit-style pizza, and no one sells it here. And if you can get me a really good deal (as in fell off the back of a truck) on a big chunk of top-grade parmesan . . ..
GAAAAAH! Not Blathering Heights. Not that infernal miserable cruel tormentous torturing device. It one of the worst loathsome mind numbing tedium ever.
Say me keep getting “This website is under heavy load” these days. And now also it stop me from seeing some comics. Is you get it also or it only for me?
Literary references are flying, but it is Natasha’s story that intrigues me the most. Is there someone she hopes to return to when she makes her fortune?
Oh dear. Neither Gatsby nor Heathcliff were intended to be models of healthy romantic attachment, as the endings of their respective relationships demonstrate.
(I do appreciate Sophie specifying “Wuthering Heights’ Heathcliff,” as otherwise it would be perfectly reasonable to think she meant the orange tabby cat from the eponymous comic strip Heathcliff.)
Oh looks like Georgia got a Sap Master 5000, sappy AI line writer for Christmas. It has been programed with every story line, sentiment and line of dialogue from every Harlequin Romance Novel ever printed. Approximately 750 novels a year since 1949. That’s a lot of Sap folks, a whole lot of Sap. It also catalogues ever Hallmark and Lifetime movie as well. If Sap could power the world the Sap Master 5000 would be GOD.
uncle snipe 4 days ago
Did somebody say CHEESE?!?! Count me in!
Brian Premium Member 4 days ago
Gambling, the sure way to a fortune!
Kahlu 4 days ago
Can Gutter see the television from that angle? Or is he there to watch another drama?
thelsrc 4 days ago
Gambling and running cheese! You go, girl!
Le'letha Premium Member 4 days ago
I believe in you, Natasha!
uncle snipe 4 days ago
Gambling. A tax on people who are bad at math. So go get em girl!
marilynnbyerly 4 days ago
Gatsby and Heathcliff had very bad endings because of who they loved. And Kit and Angora are in a soap opera which allows no one to be happy for more than a few weeks.
McColl34 Premium Member 4 days ago
“I left to make my own fortune.” Because everybody knows how easy that is! (Of course, it’s impossible if you refuse to try, so there is that.)
Yes, the Grumbling Room is still open (still needs to be open), so let us commence snacking! I’m not normally much of a salad eater, that’s kind of a every once in a while thing for me, but yesterday I had a sudden craving after reading @BaconBoyCamper ’s post. In any case, the Grumbling Room is open for whatever anyone cares to bring in. I still have some ginger snaps left over (they actually get better with age, if you can leave them alone long enough).
dmah Premium Member 4 days ago
I never understood what Gatsby saw in Daisy. Wasn’t she just a pretty airhead? Kit, otoh, is much smarter, and better looking!
WelshRat Premium Member 4 days ago
They are smooching! And Gutter is dreaming…
Kahlu 4 days ago
BUT WILL WE EVER LEARN WHO FATHERED THE TELEKINETIC KITTIES?
FreyjaRN Premium Member 4 days ago
Aww!
I’m sticking to the Grumbling Room and chowing down on yuzu senbei and stollen.
JLChi 4 days ago
Natasha, let’s talk. I need some brick cheese for a Detroit-style pizza, and no one sells it here. And if you can get me a really good deal (as in fell off the back of a truck) on a big chunk of top-grade parmesan . . ..
FreihEitner Premium Member 4 days ago
Is there gouda pay in cheese running?
howtheduck 4 days ago
I wonder what kind of version of Gatsby or Wuthering Heights’ Heathcliff these cats have been reading to make that comparison?
emiesty2 4 days ago
OT days of the week for cats
Ruth Brown 4 days ago
And what is Gutter thinking?
Decius Premium Member 4 days ago
Natasha’s got it right. Those other stories just lead to tears.
Gent 4 days ago
GAAAAAH! Not Blathering Heights. Not that infernal miserable cruel tormentous torturing device. It one of the worst loathsome mind numbing tedium ever.
Gent 4 days ago
Say me keep getting “This website is under heavy load” these days. And now also it stop me from seeing some comics. Is you get it also or it only for me?
cat19632001 4 days ago
BoCH – panel four.
Robin Harwood 4 days ago
Gent, are you anywhere near the fire breathing zombie chickens?
SheMc 4 days ago
What better way to make a fortune!!! Running cheese is a new one !!!
kimmie260 4 days ago
Gutter is watching, and we all know how Gutter feels about a certain artistic feline…
DorseyBelle 4 days ago
Running cheese??
bonita.eley 4 days ago
So romantic! or Ro cat ic which is so much better!!
Katzen1415 4 days ago
Literary references are flying, but it is Natasha’s story that intrigues me the most. Is there someone she hopes to return to when she makes her fortune?
Kitty Katz 4 days ago
Meanwhile, Back on the Nile
At the Royal Palace
Ta-Natash: We’re heading to the Punn State Wonderful Dairy for its annual year-end sale. Who wants what?
Puckmosis: I would love a nice Brie to go with some apples and Xanadu honey.
Thomios: Some Double Cream for my new recipes, please.
Elvis-Anum: And some nice sharp cheddar.
Agnes-Ata: Avenger and Emma have agreed to take us, so we should be back by Monday. Beatrixia has agreed to look after Diana while we’re gone.
Bea: And we’ll be sure to behave.
Violet-Ifa: Of course. What could possibly go wrong?
ladykat 4 days ago
Natasha, what are you plotting?
delennwen 4 days ago
HATED Wuthering Heights. An unpleasant story with unpleasant, unsympathetic characters.
The Wolf In Your Midst 4 days ago
I mean, you could have told him that at any point in the past, Angora. Might’ve helped him out a bit.
gregcomn 4 days ago
I look forward to the robber mice cheese running arc!
MoultonFamily 4 days ago
[bro] cheese running. a much more harmless and family friendly version of rum running.
mistercatworks 4 days ago
She plays the long game. :)
Red Bird 4 days ago
Love how we can see them kissing on TV. They really are made for each other.
scaeva Premium Member 4 days ago
Actually, I seem to recall that cheese smuggling is a thing.
Rob Nobody 4 days ago
Oh dear. Neither Gatsby nor Heathcliff were intended to be models of healthy romantic attachment, as the endings of their respective relationships demonstrate.
(I do appreciate Sophie specifying “Wuthering Heights’ Heathcliff,” as otherwise it would be perfectly reasonable to think she meant the orange tabby cat from the eponymous comic strip Heathcliff.)
Daltongang Premium Member 4 days ago
Oh looks like Georgia got a Sap Master 5000, sappy AI line writer for Christmas. It has been programed with every story line, sentiment and line of dialogue from every Harlequin Romance Novel ever printed. Approximately 750 novels a year since 1949. That’s a lot of Sap folks, a whole lot of Sap. It also catalogues ever Hallmark and Lifetime movie as well. If Sap could power the world the Sap Master 5000 would be GOD.
willie_mctell 4 days ago
Gambling and running cheese seems like an excellent ambition.