Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for October 16, 2020

Surprise! So lifelike even a great detective didn’t know.

LoL

Wait how didbthe cat turn around?! Maybe Goldie will solve that mystery

OT: Elvis Puffs Out is such a fun book, featuring Elvis as well as Baba Mouse and the Robber Mice. I recommend any fan get a copy.

Did Puck sit on a copier machine?

I laughed out loud so hard I think I scared my cats.♥

Goldie, that Puck impersonator would have fooled me too!

Those eyes look like candy corn… Now, that’s spooky!

We know you will, Goldie. As for the Puck wannabe – is that like one of those scary clown type dolls that you can punch or push and it won’t fall down? Those are enough to give me nightmares.

OT. Thanks to the many wonderful folks who wished me Happy 70th Birthday. About the recipes for the Hungarian Walnut Torte and the two frostings . . . .

Perfect opportunity for Tillie, or one of her Spirit friends, to speak through the toy and Really Scare Goldie!!!

My GF gave me a cat doll, life-sized, black, with piercing gold eyes. Her real cat McCali saw it, froze and began to hyperventilate. Poor kitty!! We traumatized her and felt so guilty afterwards!

BoFCH!!! (Back of fake cat head).

I laughed out loud at fourth panel.

Poor Goldie. Guess it was a bit of a one-sided conservation. I would have been scared if the decorative Puck answered back.

Puck, don’t interrupt when a lady talks to another you!

Snowed by the doppelganger! My word but that does really look like our Puck! :O

Look how happy Fake Puck is! LOL.

Because they are called DECORATIONS, Goldie – not toys. You’re a talking cat in a comic strip – wise up.

OT…..Yen, Nushi and the great-hearted Orb

There was an article online yesterday…one of the big box home stores had 12 foot tall articulated skeletons with led eyes. They sold out fast. Would love to see what Goldie and the Boys would do with one of those!

Coulda been worse. Coulda been a cucumber.

ooooh snekay

The shmoos were one of my favorite things in Lil Abner. I started on reading comics, with my Dad reading them to me, so I have many fine memories of comics I’ve followed as long as they existed, or until they were taken over by artists who promptly changed everything that was good about them. Sooo; “forum” query, who remembers old comics? Dick Tracy, Brenda Starr, Rick O’Shay & Hipshot Percussion, Charlie Brown & the Peanuts gang, Lil Abner, Mary Worth, Blondie, Hi & Lois, Beetle Bailey…..the list goes on, but I have to go. Let’s see who we remember!!!

From Stealers Wheel: Stuck in the Middle With You

After a wonderful evening last night

I met Orb friends who were just outta sight

Now this morning I made a spider attack,

Then I had to give the darn thing back

Bats to the left of me, spiders to the right

Here I am

Thought I was talking to you.

…….

Yes I thought I was talking to you, Puck

And I’m telling you what I’m gonna do,

There is a skeleton there for the taking,

And it’s mine, I’m gonna see it through

Bats to the left of me, spiders to the right

Here I am

Thought I was talking to you!

Goldie, you totally deserve the huge spider you bravely caught yesterday. I am so sorry they took it from you. Of course all these decorations are cat toys!

Im with Goldie, dont tempt my instincts if you dont want trouble

Do we get to see the Great Skeleton Takedown tomorrow? Please!

Ha! Hee hee! Goldie got PUnCKED 8-))

OT: The Mega Orb is officially on Urban Dictionary! Or will be soon, hopefully.

Oh Cat that Puck decoration looks creepy. The resemblance is uncanny.

Demonstrating the perspicacity that redounds to her reputation as an investigator of the greatest distinction!

Just a general question: Can somebody please explain the term Orbsters in relation to this comic strip? I saw a few references at the zoom meeting last night.

This one made me literally laugh out loud.

I was wondering why Puck was standing around in his T-shirt. Thought it was time for fisticuffs again.

Oh, that’s just creepy.

Tiny Goldie toe beans!

Wait – is Puck (the real Puck) letting Goldie sit on his window perch where he watches for his buddy the Mail Carrier?

He looks to be made of a squash to me.

That is funny.

Most traumatic Halloween thing for our cats – one year I dressed up as a cat and when I put the ears on, our Orange boy absolutely freaked. He puffed out more than Elvis and ran from me. I was no longer “Mom.” I was a giant, scary invader! I took the ears off of course!

OT a bit

OT: A story to tell you another story:

For a minute there, Goldie was talking to a cartoon character. :)

Poor Goldie. Cue the confused monolog:

“Wait . . . Puck . . . didn’t you? . . . I . . . You . . . How did? . . . I was just . . . Where did you? AHHHHH! "

One Halloween when I was staying at my mom’s house and giving out treats, I dressed up in black jeans, black turtleneck, and a really weird furry wig (no ears, unfortunately) and painted on a rather scary cat face. Then I topped the costume off with big red wax lips with vampire fangs. The first trick-or-treater of the night was a little girl about five years old, dressed in one of those devil costumes from the Hallmark store, being driven from house to house by her mom in a big fancy Mercedes. She was so little I didnt make her ring the doorbell but went out to meet her. The kid was so terrified of my costume that she stopped stock still and wouldn’t come up onto the porch. I had to go down and drop the candy into her little hollow pumpkin. She still didnt move until I was back on the porch, at which time she turned and ran for her life, diving into the Mercedes. I considered my costume a great success, but decided the vampire lips were a bit much and put them away for the rest of the night to avoid traumatizing anybody.

I had a large monkey puppet that was best friends with my sister’s kids. It was big enough that I could give it facial expressions and movements. Other people’s pets would freak out about it. It didn’t smell real, but it moved real. One cat tried to kill him.

I’m surprised Goldie didn’t send her coffee flying when the real Puck startled her!

Let’s face it, you did not see this coming. I sure didn’t.

GAH!!!!!!

Today is:

Global Cat Day —Formerly known as Feral Cat Day. Baba Mouse wants YOU to T-N-R! Because you love them, that’s why.

National Cut Up Your Credit Cards Day —Credit cards may be convenient, but they were also invented by the banking industry to make money. They are a shortcut to debt, and debt is only good for the lender. This is in spite of the fact that your credit worthiness goes down the less debt you have. That is ridiculous.

National Dictionary Day — I have an appetite for words “exceeding the greediest likings of the big people.” One of my so-called “faults” as a writer is using perfectly good words that a third grader doesn’t know. Yes, it was hell trying to write for structural engineers …

How did this terrible affliction come about? I was given my first dictionary in third grade. Look up one word, find five more, or ten, or twenty. Only problem was, having been force-fed phonics, I never did learn to spell … and still beat AutoCorrupt.

World Spine Day —You only have one (unless you are an invertebrate punster, in which case you are lucky to have a notochord.) (See previous entry). Seriously, they cannot be replaced, and repair is both risky and problematic. Even structural engineers think it’s a terrible joke. Take care of it, or it will “take care” of you (Mob definition.)

National Liqueur Day — Otherwise known as National Spinal Lubricant Day for those whose spines are problematic. (Obligatory disclaimer: The medical establishment does not recommend “self-medication,” and neither do I. YMMV)

And Puck-O-Ween gets Goldie.

Panel 3—one fang. Stylish.

The last panel is hilarious.

I’m loving her expression of pique in the first three panels.

There’s something very E.C. Segar about today’s strip. I could see this happening to Castor Oyl.

Now THAT was funny@

Poor Goldie, she is not sure how to Halloween with humans yet.

Best turnaround reveal since finding Mrs. Bates in the cellar of Norman’s motel.

Goldie was concentrating on drinking her coffee and not really looking right at Fake Puck which goes to show how inattention during multitasking can bite you in the butt!

As someone who has dealt with several black cats…I get you.