Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for January 17, 2025

Iggy, we have a few more hieroglyphs. Do you think you could decipher them?

ahem! That’s “at-hash-star-one,” Ora Zella.

“Ora Zella’s Big Book of Bad Words”!!! So adorable! Also, lots of cuss-words in there. Woman, you okay?

Spell it just like it sounds: @#*1.

And put that in your Big Book of Bad Words.

You spell it &&"^, Ora Zella (7726 is the Spam text reporting number in the UK. Those are the symbols on the matching number on my laptop)

OraZuzu…..You spell it VERY CAREFULLY!

OMG seems oddly out of place with the @#1 and the #$+ing.

Oh my!

I hear you, Woman . . . it’s been a #$+*ING kind of day for me, too!

Somebody needs to be dumping quarters into the “cuss jar.” So many quarters!

A blue pen to write blue words in blue ink. Good choice, Orazilla!

Once I get started….I tend to form compound swear words. Pretty much in complete sentences. Sailors blush at some of my naughtier utterances. LOL

There’s a fun picture book called The Very Inappropriate Word. It’s illustrated by Dave Coverly, the artist who does the Speed Bump comic. The grawlix on the cover is spectacularly gnarly.

Ora Zella’s little tail in the last panel. She is excited. (And I laughed out loud at “Ora Zella’s Big Book of Bad Words”!)

OZ’s tail is wagging at warp 6.

Does anyone here remember the children’s series of Golden Books? The guides covered a wide range of science subjects, one of the weirdest being the one on hallucinogenic plants. I wished they had one for the etymology of cuss words. I knew some young reluctant readers who would’ve got on a wait list to read that one!

oh fudge …

Oz will have at least 3 more volumes, of cuss words, by the time the Woman is finished installing that printer…if she ever installs it!

My father’s family was British. Very proper. Never a cuss word passed their lips in front of me or anyone. Always done behind closed doors if they did at all. My mother’s side were Scots. Get them going and they put sailors and most anyone else who isn’t a Scot to shame. Guess which side I take after when I’m frustrated or mad…

The Woman isn’t providing a healthy environment for the kittens. I’m going to dial the local CPS (Cat Protective Services) and have them look into it.

Ora Zellas big book of bad words !! She should be forgetting them, not writing them down.

OT, good news mostly

Ah, the “point of no return” which I call the “it’s become a quest” point.

Has the Woman tried shaking or kicking the printer yet?

Pucky TOE BEANS!

Well good theeng me bearly needing steenky preenters.

No no no Orazoozoo. It not like that at all. You just mishearing it see. The woomin just calling Puck to helping her with steenky preenter see. Now don’t just stands there Puck can’t cha see she calling ya. Goes and helps already.

This one really cracked me up! :-)

Little kittens have big ears.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Beatrixia: Now that they have all the materials, how will they set up the printer?

Iggy: I’ve outlined the plan in the next act. First Wally, Iron Glove, and I got together with Burt-Ra to get the world out to anyone interested in helping.

Do you want to build a printer?

In the library we need one

We publish The Daily Scroll

And now our goal

Is get so much printing done!

We can build it in our spare time

There is really no rush

Do you want to build a printer

Beatrix really needs a printer

: Thanks so much!

Ora Zella’s Book of Bad Words, very funny. It’s important to build vocabulary.

“OMG”? Not “OMC” for Oh my Cat?

When my printer wouldn’t install, I called my IT guy. He said it was a 5 minute job. Two horls later…

Ora Zelda is learning a new language!

Big book of bad words! I’m compiling a book of Bad words in ASL LOL

Step away from the printer. Do not go back for at least a day. Or, ask the children to get it done.Elementary schools should have a list of kids who can help people with new devices.

Well now isn’t that lovely in a family comic, the woman is teaching the children and the cats the worst of the worst swear words, which will then be repeated by all, much to the disdain of not only others, but the woman herself. Oh the hypocrisy of it all.

So sounds like me!! Good laugh to start my day!

You need to press shift on your keyboard to get most of those characters, first of all. ;)

The Woman has completely lost it. That printer is nothing but a worthless pile of @#*1!

I love the cursing

“Ora Zella’s Big Book of Bad Words” literally made me snort my coffee out.

Why am I not surprised that she is compiling Ora Zella’s Big Book of Bad Words?

If Puck doesn’t intervene quickly, this arc may give her enough material for Volume II!

If you want to fill an entire large book shelf of books with swear words contained therein, hit your thumb with a 16 oz. Estwing hammer. (True story. Dad did this while building a shop. Got a lesson that day.)

Evil printer meet hot oven rack.

OT: Does anyone look at those AI cat videos?

Vocabulary lessons are so important!

remember it’s @ before # except after $

Larry Niven used to invent good swear words. I still use FRAK! Then there’s a great one supposedly derived from Gaelic: (note, may be misspelled)

Foch! (meaningless root)

Fochaile! (meaning “a word”)

Fochalailly! (meaning "another word)

Most printers have at least a 90 day warranty. They will be glad to give you free technical support to avoid any unnecessary returns. Printer problems are only funny up to a point. I did IT support for 20 years. Even after retirement, I find I spend time every month doing “support” on my various computers and devices. Welcome to The Future.

Off-Topic – BlueIris is there some way to PAY you to stop “Liking” my posts? You like so many it is meaningless and I get notifications many times a day, often “liking” days old comments. You are the only one that does this routinely to me.

New printer arrived yesterday. All in one piece, no trauma from shipping. Powers up nicely. Works with new computer via wifi. Works with wife’s computer with wifi if the little wifi booster is used (her computer is upstairs in her office/studio). But this is only the first day. We’ll see about this later when documents and stuff need to be printed out. Going grocery shopping tomorrow, so a shopping list might be a good test. Good luck with the new printer, Georgia. Remember to breathe.

Oh no, she’s learning bad words!

Nearly OT: My @#*1 Moment

[bro] @#1ing mother @#1er! thats not good

O. Z. loves language.

Ampersand, hash mark, asterisk, one.

Spell it like > @#*1 <

Ayup…

Time to call in the Boy…

I love how just one little line or a small change to the eyebrows conveys so much. OraZella’s face in panel three shows her reaction – a bit of wonder and amazement at learning something new. By the next panel her eyes show she knows how to apply this new info.

Panda, age 14 just crossed the Rainbow Bridge. He was diabetic and was nonresponsive to treatment. He stopped eating and drinking. He will be missed.