Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for October 18, 2020

Let me guess: inspired by real life?

Haven’t had this mistake in my house, but our dish soap and dish washer soap containers are pretty distinct from each-other. XD;

I vote to make this broadcast an animated big-budget disaster movie (in which everyone is adorable and no one gets hurt).

Better switch to dishwasher PODS!

This is one BCN that has me laughing hysterically. Thank you!

Reminds me of a movie I once saw. Maybe The Thrill of it All , with James Gardner and Doris Day…

Omg! I swear my sister in law did this one time. Guess I learned to be careful how long I leave the house for.

The woman as Ensign Pulver, whistling down the corridor on the way back from what used to be the laundry room…

This happened once at our house, when I was a kid. Except it was that someone put dish soap in the clothes washer (no, it wasn’t me).

We’ve never actually used the dishwasher in the roughly 40 years since it was installed. Our water is so hard that it would destroy a dishwasher in just a few years. (We have replaced it once during that time, because even just using it as a drying rack for the dishes we hand-wash, our water eventually ruined it).

This reminds me of the time Andrea “Boom Boom” Mitchell got stuck in the middle of the balloon drop at a long past RNC convention. (Not trying to promote one party over the other—just imagining Elvis in her situation.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJiBWZpGOes

My daughter, who was four or five at the time, did this and proudly announce that she had loaded and started The dishwasher. She didn’t know high soap to use, and chose wrong. The result was very similar.

The kids seem perfectly happy to live on the counter for now. I’m glad Goldie got Puck to safety, but where are Lupin and Elvis? I’m assuming Lupin is having an adventure under the bubbles (maybe involving Elvis’s tail) and that Elvis is trying to maintain his dignity as he continues to report on the bubble flood.

OMC!! At least Pengo is safe, but what about Buzzy Mouse!

SUNDAY FUNDAY!

Puck, you’re going to need a bigger counter.

When my son and his wife bought a new house it came with a Years supply of cleansing products. No labels I’d. That label ever seen. I helped do the dishes with the sink soap. Downy cuts down on foam volume that label I knew.

Cats and People-kittens have to stick together in times of crisis! Love Lupin and Goldie working together to rescue Puck!

Notice that Lupin is “invisible” in the bottom right corner of the second-last panel! I love when Georgia does that with Lupin.

It’s desperate. Lupin and Goldie are working together to save their Pucky!

The perspective in panel 3 as Puck looks up! And Burt’s snarky Chiron in panel 2! :-D

Ride the Wave, Kitties!

When I was a young teenager and my mum was at work she asked me to put the washing machine on. I accidentally put used cooking oil in there as she used to keep it in an old plastic bottle by the back door, not too far from the machine. I couldn’t find the stuff I was supposed to use so thought this was it. Luckily the clothes came out fine, a little softer if anything!

This is alike a 70s disaster film -“Soap Tsunami!”

Aren’t Tabitha and Sir Fig glad their apartment is above the soap flood zone?

Hmm.. I’ve never even seen a dishwasher. Nobody I know has got one. I’ve heard they’re mighty expensive.

Get a stick wit big NOPE.

Tiny bubbles

On the floor

Seen to stay forevermore

Tiny bubbles

Taking over the kitchen

With the feeling that I’m gonna be

Mopping ’til the end of time!

This reminds me of the sort of slapstick comedy in early TV like I Love Lucy. But one feature I like about our dishwasher is the cancel button…stops the cycle and drains the water….I think it would help.

OT. Yen

Liquid dishwasher detergent is hard on glass and china. Should only use powder anyway.

It’s like packing peanuts … but liquid.

LOL, this reminds me of a prank we played in the military. We were on our 5s (level 5 medical training) and we had a friendly rivalry with the medical 3s course. When they were out doing their field training, we snuck into their barracks and poured a whole bottle of dish soap into the bottom of the laundry machines, knowing the first thing they’d do is toss their kit in the laundry, and jump in the showers.

(They did get us back by using bailing twine to tie all our doors together and create a cats cradle up the stairways of our barracks.

♪"How do you solve the problem of the dish soap?

How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?

How do you find a word that means disaster?

It’s all over the floor! Get up high! We’re going to drown!"♫

(“How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria” – Rogers and Hammerstein)

Hey Y’all! We forgot about this! :

SUNDAY FUNDAY!Or did i miss something? Anyway, its Sunday Funday time.

At the end, Goldie is realizing there are a whole new set of perils to living inside with people vs. outside with nature.

Outside: Attacked by racoons.

Inside: Attacked by an ethereal blob.

Consider buying brands with different packaging? Or putting a homemade label on one of them? As a last resort, before pouring, READ THE LABEL. :-p

Did that, done that.

I never did that because the bottles are completely different.

I laughed so hard at this strip my ribs hurt.

Sorry I haven’t been around much; between getting the boys across the street off to school, dashing back home and grabbing my purse and going to help with my great-granddaughter’s home schooling, coming home and working on the Christmas gifts I am crafting and tidying the place and fixing dinner for myself and my grandson, I’m lucky if I can see BCN, never mind comment on it.

Hooray! Glad you’re well and busy!

How about pods or tablets?

When I was broker than broke when the kids were growing up (as in they ate and I did not some nights) I had no choice but to use the liquid and using the machine used less water. A teaspoon of liquid mixed with 1/4 cup of baking soda worked. The baking soda kept the bubbles down.

Maybe you should start using powder dishwasher soap instead, then. The difference would be more obvious then.

How do you keep a wave upon the sand?

How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?

How many of you are now going to have that song stuck in your head all day, like me?

When my mom died I made an appliance cheat sheet for my dad. The first time he ran the dishwasher…

Hey!

Pick up your bubbles in a kitchen so shiny

And smile, smile, smile

While you’ve a counter to save your heiny

Smile, boys (and Goldie), that’s the style!

What’s the use of worrying?

It never was worthwhile

So pack up your bubbles in your old trash bag

And smile, smile, smile

[Felix Powell & George Asaf]

The Girl and Goldie share similar tastes in clothes and colors.

Puck may be apologetic about everyone now having to live on the counter (though why as he didn’t cause the soap tsunami) but the kids look delighted.

one reason why I keep using dry dishwasher soap. The bottles look too much alike!

Unfortunately, I have found that the Slightest amount of Dawan on a plate will do that. I did salt, a large Wet-Vac, and a Lot of flushing.

I missed Lupin the first time in panel 8. He & the kids are loving it!

On the offhand chance it accidentally happens again liquid fabric softener will break down the suds. Tip given to friend when children spilled dish washing soap on the carpet and the shop vac clean-up attempt was overwhelmed with suds.

This is an easy error for me to avoid. I AM the dishwasher!

Panels 3 and 4 are my favourites here. That look on Puck’s face as he sees the suds about to swallow him, and then Goldie and Lupin working together to save their precious Pucky.

Back in the late 1980’s I moved to Winston-Salem and lived with a couple of friends until I was able to afford my own place. After working Night Audit at my first Hampton Inn I came home one morning and opened the apartment door. One of them had put dish soap in the dishwasher and the kitchen, living room, and hallway were solid suds from floor to ceiling. My bedroom was a straight shot from the front door to the end of the hallway. I just closed my eyes and walked straight through the suds to go to bed.

Big Magic Marker – big DW for dishwasher. Sorted.

This is rather sensitive for me, recently a new fire has sprung up in Colorado, just north of boulder, where I live, You can see the plumes of smoke from the north area of boulder, a lot of people have been evacuated and the fire grew to massive size in just one day. I would really appreciate some hugs, boops, and purrs for me and for all the people who have been evacuated and whose houses might have been burned.

Today is:

Sparse when it comes to holidays.

Moby Dick Day — The day this massive tome first hit the bookstores as The Whale in London. This whale of a tale is not true, I swear by Melville’s tattoo. Ishmael was never there, he and Melville never spoke. This broadside has sunk more students than all the whales together have sunk whalers. At least the whale wins in the end.

What day is today? Alaska…

Alaska Day — To this day, Russia regrets Seward’s Swindle, which may have looked a Folly to his myopic political enemies, but wasn’t. They just had a half-baked notion …

National Chocolate Cupcake Day — How are cupcakes related to pound cakes, other than calorically? Originally, there were two types of cup cakes. One was a miniature cake baked in a cup. The other was a cake in which all ingredients were measured in cups, and the total of the ingredients came out to about a pound. The latter eventually came to be called a pound cake. Nothing to do with the pounds it puts on you, really …

I think Elvis is a real cupcake, chocolate or otherwise.

My sister and I did this once. My parents told us the dishwasher better be running and almost done by the time they got home. Unfortunately, we only had liquid dish soap at the time. I called my mom to tell her this after we had already put the soap in the dishwasher and started it up. The kitchen floor was never cleaner, that is for sure.

There’s only one solution: KITCHEN NIGHTCLUB!

Reminds me of the laundry soap episode with Bobby on The Brady Bunch…and the pool scene in The Thrill of it All (also, “we live on the counter now” )

Yup. Done it once myself.

The only time I did it was when I had moved into an apartment for the first time. I thought, “It will probably be okay.” It wasn’t. These days my dish detergent is small bottles of Dawn “blue”, so that’s easy to keep straight even if I’m not using my preferred powdered dishwasher detergent.

Reminds me of an unnamed in-law who was unaware that a dryer has a lint filter. In her defense her family lived in an apartment and always hauled over to the laundromat.

It was a very small fire.

And, yours truly learned a lesson about meat thermometers. How was I supposed to know the plastic on the digital version wasn’t heat resistant?

Clark Update:

He is a little better today. Not quite as lethargic, no vocalizing.

Really weird though. Drinking water like crazy, “leaking” continuously. The pink is almost gone but the leakage is clear and does not smell at all like urine.

Thank goodness they saved Puck.

I can solve this. Start using the kind of dishwasher soap that comes in small packets. There’s no way you can mistake those with a bottle of dish soap.

I think the floor is doomed.

Salt knocks down the bubbles.

OT

Great, once he and Goldie rescued Puck Lupin decided to streak once again. Surprised he can hide in that sea of pink.

Pop did that once. Next time try a wet/dry shopvac.

Oh, oh. I know someone who did this once. When those suds start spewing out, they make The Blob look like child’s play.

Looks like fun!

OK. For those who remember the great Lawrence Welk (my grandparents always watched that) … I must a – say, … " And a – now, for a – da Bubbles! … Wait! … A stop – a – da BUBBLES!!! ". :)

Indeed, how do you capture a cloud?

One of my friends did this trying to help his mom out after she had a hysterectomy. The kitchen floor was sparkling after he and his dad finished cleaning up the mess. No excuse for being a child though, he was 24! When it came time to do the laundry, his mom had him and his dad load the washer, but she added the soap! The thing that gets to him though is he would have been fine making the mistake, but he could have strangled his mom for sharing the mishap with me. :D

I do love the Girl’s purple overalls!

Kids, listen to your Mom Cat.

How do you solve a problem like Maria?

I did this once. While babysitting. I was a teenager and had never used a dishwasher before. What a mess!