Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for August 12, 2020

Natasha’s logic is also impeccable. I predict that Goldie will approve.

Love the use of the teabag and what looks like a loufa (sp?) sponge. Unless that’s another look at the teabag. Natasha is some girl!

Natasha has no motive! Her reaction is just a double take! I love the sponge she is using in the forth panel and the teabag string hanging out of “the bathtub “ cracks me up!

I think we know who the leader of the Break All the Things Wrecking Ball Gang might be. Still, I think he’s innocent of this crime.

OT: when using my I Pad for BCN my avatar is present ( on Firefox) but on my computer, since they changed the Go Comics format my avatar does not show. I am only supposed to submit an impossibly small gif image which I do not have. I also use Firefox on my computer to view Go Comics. Any suggestions as to how I could find a small gif? I have an I Mac so I can’ download anything.

The tea bag seems to be working quite well as a pillow

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

At the Tea Springs Spa

Attendant: Ms Ta-Natash, we have a message for you.

Ta-Natash: Oh bother. Just when I was starting to relax.

: Ta-Natash, the Queen, Baba-Stet, and just about everyone else have been looking for you (stop) What should we tell them?(stop)Signed, Alice-Ata

Ta-Natash: Wonder what that’s about?

Attendant: Will there be a reply?

Ta-Natash: Yes. Tell them I’ll be back shortly. No use wasting a perfectly good tea bath.

Later that evening at the palace

Beatrixia: It looks like Ta-Natash is in the clear. She’s been at Tea Springs Spa all this time.

Elvis-Anum How do you know?

Beatrixia: Alice-Ata said the Papyrus Cat has just come by.

Elvis-Anum: When will everyone realize? There is no Papyrus Cat!

But does she have any information about who could have done the terrible deed?

Just checked: camomile tea is supposed to lighten hair color. Perhaps that is what Natasha is bathing in. I wonder if the Woman keeps any camomile tea bags around the apartment…

Splish, splash, I was soakin’ in my bath

Long about a Wednesday night, yeah

A rub dub, just relaxin’ in my tub

Thinkin’ everythin’ was all right

Well, I steeped in that tub

I put my feet on the rim

Caressed in tea water in a cup

Filled to the brim

And then a-splish, splash

Goldie ruined my bath

Well, how was I to know

She thinks I’ve really done them wrong?

I was a-splishin’ and a-splashin’

Reelin’ with the feelin’

Movin’ and a-groovin’

Rockin’ and eye-rollin’, yeah, yeah

Bing, bang, while I may be in a gang

I got no part in this whole shebang, yeah

Flip, flop, she thinks I am a thug

Well, me and that infernal Jules bug

Splish, splash, yeah

[Bobby Darin / Jean Murray]

Doesn’t the melted Cookie stain the fur, Nat?

I thought it was a sponge, but I think it’s her shower cap.

Ayyyyyyyyyyyy! It’s my birthday! Did they break the vase?

There is a difference between a robber and a vandal! Get it right, Goldie!

This actually made me think of a character of mine, a thief who is very offended when someone accuses him of being involved in a kidnapping. I’m so amused.

Natasha has a point! Hmmmm, so just who is in this “Break all the Things Wrecking Ball Gang”??? Time to stop rounding up the usual suspects and get a confidential source to start naming names. ;)

She makes a strong argument.

But … after rereading Natasha’s statements, she never actually denies breaking it. She could have been trying to steal Short N Stout and he was accidentally broken.

She didn’t say “no.”

Arrest that reeky rodent! Vase or not, mice spread dangerous diseases!

Maybe it was The Man and he’s going to sheepishly apologize, new owl vase in hand. That would definitely exonerate Lupin!

#IbelieveLupin

A super rare sighting – a red letter day in the diary – BoRMC! [Bottom of Robber Mouse Chin]

Nobody has a specific motive for breaking the vase. On comedic grounds, I’m betting on the Man.

Natasha knows more than she is saying.

I need to know if this is a Hard-Boiled or cozy mystery? Should we take Natasha downtown, put her under the lights and sweat a confession or should we just retire to the drawing room?

Little mouse toes!

How cool! How calm! Collect her!

All good points, but the detail both she and Goldie are seemingly overlooking is that none of this rules out the possibility that it was accidentally and unintentionally broken still.

Georgia posted a picture of Puck, who apparently thought Georgia didn’t really need to start working:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CDw2AxgJv9H/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

My cats often think I should be paying attention to them instead of working.

Well, at last I’m back! Miserable power outage during a heat wave, too. First thing I did was get my name on the very long list for an in-house generator. Missed my comics!

Suspect assumption 1: Vase was not broken by accident. Lack of utility or profit is not an alibi.

My money’s still on Elvis. Roll video from Sunday of last week!

https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2020/08/02

Natasha is a (clothes) modest mouse.

Natasha’s little tootsies sticking out of the tea bath, so cute!

Today is:

Baseball Fans Day —I have an antipathy for baseball that began when I was a child, and games always pre-empted the cartoon shows I wanted to watch. Then there was a disastrous time in little league, when I learned to hate many of the adults involved. I tried to maintain an interest, and learned to throw a ball (or anything else) with great accuracy. What finally did it was attending a Cubs game. Physically miserable for hours, and bored out of my mind—sitting around for hours, watching grown men spit and scratch. As a matter of fact, I knew no adult men who could watch a baseball game on TV and not fall asleep—even the uncle who played semi-pro. I cannot understand other’s excitement and passion for the game. Now cricket, that’s supposed to be boring, but the complexity of the rules keeps you awake—or that’s my understanding. ;^)

National Middle Child Day — “Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.” That pretty much sums up being a middle child. Never mind the “syndrome,” being in the middle has … tactical advantages …

National Vinyl Record Day —This is the day Thomas Edison supposedly invented the phonograph, though I hesitate to give that bandit too much credit. He was a businessman first, an engineer and scientist second. Regardless of who did the actual work, it has been and continues to be a boon to humankind. “Wo-oh-hooooo listen to the music …” =^D

National Julienne Fries Day —The “Proper” name for “French fries.” The technique of julienne cutting is apparently a French invention, sometimes called “frenching.” (Hmmm… NOT when I was in high school!) Hence, “French fries.” Hot grease, carbs, and salt—what’s not to like? (Note for our British representatives: you apparently refer to them as “chips,” similar to the way you call “cookies,” “bisquits.”) Ah, English, the only language with a speech impediment built in!

And yes, I do want fries with that …

Is that a mouse tail if the second panel? It is a wonder that she didn’t tell everyone to get lost. Can’t a girl take a bath in a teacup in peace?

She’s got you there, Goldie.

What good is a broken vase? Would depend on what it’s made out of. Porcelain, forget it. Now if it were made of copper or silver, there’s value there.

Natasha has a point. They’re not vandal mice. Those are the ones that chew through the insulation on wires and other fun stuff.

No, she wouldn’t have broken it, she would have borrowed it.

Hold it, Is that a cookie I see?

Also just a random thought I would like to see more of the woodland creatures and what they are all about. a story line involving Beatrix would be something that I would be exited about

She didn’t deny it…

I will now call me and my friend group the “Break All The Things Wrecking Ball Gang!”