Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for December 31, 2020

So tempting….cannot resist edible cat toys……must munch them !

The BCN crew is so professional! They took the time to report before taking the snacks! Ooops!

I love Goldie’s dress!

HAPPY SNACK NIGHT TO ALL AND TO ALL A CATTY NEW YEAR!

I love the boys in their formal wear. Goldie’s dress is divine. I wonder if Sophie designed it. But where are the robber mice? A feast of bite sized food like this should have caught their attention. Will Goldie’s next case be the mystery of the missing mice?

Where is Elvis’ cummerbund? He’s that kind of dapper guy.

Once again, cats have their priorities in the right place and a keen grasp of what People holidays are really about.

I have too much food! I have planned for Home Made Pizza. But I also have Chicken Stir Fried Rice, Bagel Cheese Burger, and Lasagna! Desserts are worse! Cherry Chocolate Cordial, Chocolate Pudding, Blueberry Fudge, Lava Cake, and Blooming Fruit Pie! The cats… poor things… Touch of milk, Tuna, Goochy Food, Egg, and anything they can con off my plate!

(Lifting my glass of Apple Juice, Tea, and Hot Coco) Here is to us all having a prosperous New Year!

OT: Yen

“We just want the bacon-wrapped cubes of ham and cheese.”

Nice to see that the crew are dressing for dinner. But what is the “Whoa, whoa, stop!” about? Who would say that?

Remember, guys (and gal), the people need snacks too!

The lads and the lady are dressed to impress. Obviously this is a gala event! I doubt if there will be many guests (including Tommy and Beatrix as well as their owners) coming to the apartment/big house except via Zoom or WhatsApp as everyone is being responsible and social distancing but I do expect an appearance from the Robber Mice, so where are they?

A blast from the past:

http://www.breakingcatnews.com/comic/bcn-new-year-countdown/

The boys are looking quite dapper in their tuxes. Happy Snack Night, Everyone!

Careful cats, your toe beans are looking most edible too! Here’s to a great 2021 everyone x

Tiny horse devours night, eh? Y’mean it’s the Lupin the tiny horse devours delicious delicacies and splendidly scrumptious snacks night, eh?

HAPPY SNACK NIGHT TO ALL IN THE MEGA ORB!!! It’s almost midnight here in New Zealand and I have an avocado and pepperoni pizza, cheesy garlic bread and a glass of cream wine to celebrate! :D Squeeeeeeeeee!!!

Lupin toe beans! Puck toe beans! And Back of Puck Head! Trifecta! What a way to end the year. ♥

Back of Cat Head! BoCH for the new year— nice!

My Cat – look at that spread. The People have been very busy in the kitchen today.

Happy Snack Night to the CN reporters but be careful of those toothpicks.

Edible hockey pucks! Let the games begin!

Happy New Year to the BCN family!

I love staying home on NYE with hubby and eating our hors d’oeuvres. I don’t even think about the calories.

I love it when the boys don their formal wear! Lupin is even wearning a real jacket.

I guess my pair must be unusual. Apart from Little Miss Adventure’s obsession with olives, they don’t show much interest in human food.

Does sushi count as finger foods? Probably not. Our New Years Eve tradition has been Sushi and still being in bed before midnight.

Look how dressed up the kitties are to bring in the new year! And wasn’t the Woman wonderful to make them treats and toys! Wait, you mean those tiny hors d’oeuvres aren’t for them? This should be interesting.

I made this up all by myself

Edible cat toys with toothpick accessories

Tasting and sampling is more than necess’ry

So much tasting to be done,

As we greet 2021

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Our fine crew we like to commend, they’re

Bringing joy with their sartorial splendor

Dressed to the nines, they have such fun,

Time to greet 2021

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2020 will soon be gone,

We’ll do our best to try to move on,

Soon will come our New Year’s Day,

As our cat friends lead the way

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Cats and crew await with no fear,

Let’s hope and pray for a better coming year,

New stories from Ms Georgia Dunn,

Let’s all greet 2021!

Puck really pulls off that White Jacket with red rose in his lapel. He swaggers like James Bond ! Goldie looks so pretty in her formal dress. Elvis and Lupin look very traditional in their formal black Tuxes too!

Now get some cat toys before the Man or Woman pull you away!

Dig in, reporters!

Is your local veterinarian open for business on New Year’s Day? :-o

The people made plenty for themselves, the cats, and Gent.

Happy New Year to all my fellow Orbsters! A special shout out and a Very Happy New Year to our creator, Georgia Dunn.

Yesterday’s strip made it on GoComics list of New Year comics:

https://www.gocomics.com/comics/lists/1722992/15-comics-to-welcome-the-new-year

As requested, a report from the future.

1. Surprisingly, there is a new year.

2. So far, it doesn’t seem much different from the old one.

3. No flying cars in sight yet.

4. No idea about the cricket.

5. None of this suggests that we are not doomed.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

OT: question about cat behavior

https://www.google.com/search?q=New+Year%27s+Eve&oi=ddle&ct=144868592&hl=en&source=doodle-ntp&ved=0ahUKEwiFmfOOvvjtAhUrJzQIHQumBuYQPQgBpress on the confetii shooter, your welcome

Edible cat toys on toothpicks!

Pro tip for Orbsters who live in the Central, Mountain, or Pacific time zones: CNN shows the ball drop live, obviating the need to stay up until midnight.

After all that effort into their party wear, some human has to come in and take the treat tray away…unfortunately hungry cats, goodies, and dozens of toothpicks dont go together. I do feel sorry for people who like to gather for NY eve…not really the best idea this year. But many will do it anyway…

Tuxedos and a gown! Nice!

Soon it will be midnight here. But the only hot drink I’m having this time is a hot cup of tea. If you think that’s weird, well, this year was weirder. And I’ve got a feeling the next year is going to be better, but it’s going to take time. (Of course, if the media would stop all their scaremongering, then it would take much lesser time). Anyway, cheers, folks. A happy new year. And soon, here we go again for another ride around the sun.

I see that Lupin and Goldie will co-exist side by side for tiny hors d’oeuvres.

Happy New Years Eve and New Years Day to all. I plan to blow up the yard & sky (RIP SkyKey) with fireworks. Might be doing that in sleeting rain, but that won’t stop me from ushering out 2020.

Wishing everyone in the Orbiverse a very Happy New Year—may this upside-down world turn back around very soon! I love all y’all!

I just want to know why Georgia didn’t say something when she came by to to take a picture of my table spread for tonight? I mean, this is almost exactly what my table will look like tonight.

Wishing a Happy and Healthy New Year to one and all

I was thinking of giving my boys some catnip and videotape them going crazy. Yes, my life is quite boring, but not to them!

I know people have tried giving cats their own special plates of the tasty party snacks. However, for most cats, the stealthy stalking and snatching is the finest sauce.

At the gathering of the New Years’ Feast

Queen Catshepsut the Golden: And now we bid a not so fond farewell to 2020 BC* and welcome in the New Year! Has anyone made any resolutions?

Elvis-Anum: I plan to be more dignified and awesome.

Lupinium: I just want to have fun.

The Royal Procurers: We’ll never tell!

The Queen: And now I believe Emma and Avenger have an announcement to make

Avenger: Yes. In the New Year a new life and new story will unfoald!

Beatrixia: Oh when are you due?

Emma: Normally it would take almost a year, but thanks to the magic of Cartoon Science, it will be very soon.

Puckmosis: Have you picked out names yet?

The Royal Procurers: All in good time, my kitties, all in good time.

*BC=By Cats

As a child, my siblings and I did not have much opportunity to eat junk food or drink soda. Every New Years my parents would put out a spread like this for us and we could eat and drink as much as we want. For dessert there would be several types of ice cream and fixings for sundaes or floats. After gorging we would break a homemade piñata that my dad would make each year. It would have candy, New Years party favors, comics, mad magazine and pennies with the new year on them. These were the best new year celebrations I have had. In my forty years of adult life I never had as good a New Years as these. In fact only one new years party would even make the top 50 list of parties I have experienced. In 1984 and artist friend of my brother’s pulled out all the stops for the theme. Unfortunately his artist friends were not big readers of Orwell and really didn’t appreciate the effort.

But are these snacks better than Yum Yum Spider Treats?

My waistline agrees with Goldie!

nom-nom-nom!!!

OT face masks Zazzle 21% off sale

Today is: The last day I will be posting a “Today is” comment. Doing this was intended as a substitute for a BCN calendar, using as first inspiration one by Sandra Boynton, later expanded when people complained because I didn’t include one they knew about. It takes at least an hour, often more, to choose the holidays, research them, and come up with something to say. To misquote the song, Goober Peas “I think this thing has lasted almost long enough/ the subjects are most interestin’ but jokes are mighty rough/” I want to spend that time reading and responding to other’s comments, which I have had to cut back. You folks are dear to me, and I’m glad if this gave you some joy and thought during this year of “straight up poop.”

Unlucky Day: Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. That was every day of 2020.

Make Up Your Mind Day: Yes, I know. Those hospital corners are just so baffling …

Hogmanay: A Scottish New Year celebration. Has very little to do with hogs. Some etymologists think it is derived from Middle French. I think that is hogwash (the only place the hogs come in) because although there has been a strong French influence in Scotland, it is relatively recent. The Celtic (Goidelic) “influences” are native, and the Norse influences have been there since at least ~700 CE, possibly even proto-Norse before that.† So I think the last more likely: an invocation to the elves to to banish the trolls into the sea. That would fit with its probable origin as a pagan Winter Solstice celebration. So may the Ljos Alfar bless us, and the trolls be banished. As for origin, you can make up your own mind. Don’t forget the hospital corners …

National Champagne Day: Ironically, an Englishman, Christopher Merret, invented the process that produces champagne. Inebriation being a national sport among the Celts and their descendants, the French ran with it (safer than scissors.) So let’s have a toast. Burps optional.

Happy New Year to Georgia and the Orb! Thank you, Georgia, for a wonderful year of comic entertainment and to the Orb family for your friendship and support during a most challenging time! May 2021 be better for all of us! ♥♥♥

Happy New Year, everyone, from me, Tasha, and Gwinny!

Happy (early) New Year to all of you special folks who make BCN such a welcoming place! You rock!

HAPPY NEW YEAR ORB!

Happy snack night? Without the mixed nuts to keep you up until midnight, really? (Come to think of it I don’t think we any mixed nuts either. Very dangerous territory)

Still 10 more hours to go here in New Jersey, but:

Happy New/Mew Year, Mega-Orb!

Miles of edible cat toys on toothpicks, huh.

“I can snack for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles. Oh Yeah!”

My calendar arrived yesterday along with my mask! I’m at the vet now wearing my BCN logo mask! Unfortunately I’m here because my baby is sick,…which is when I really don’t like curbside vet service. I was the cat mama who wouldn’t even let them take my babies out of the room to be weighed…

Goldie is going to give Sophie a run for her money in the best dressed category!

Happy New Year to everyone in your house. Meet your year be blessed with much happiness.

Our family also has the “tiny food” tradition. Pub food for all, and to all a good night!

If the person responsible for dropping the balls on Times Square doesn’t drop the ball, does this mean (s)he dropped the ball?

Did you hear about the guy who started fixing breakfast at midnight on December 31? He wanted to make a New Year’s toast!

Did you hear that Dracula passed out at midnight on New Year’s Eve? There was a count down!

Why did the wall fall down on New Year’s Eve? It was plastered!

Where do chefs go to celebrate New Year’s Eve? Thyme’s Square!

Wives are often the sober chauffeurs on New Year’s Eve. You might say they drive their husbands to drink.

Anything’s better with comfort food.

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

HAPPY MEW YEAR!

Happy New Year everyone.

“Edible cat toys on toothpicks”… so that’s what ‘hors d’oeuvres’ means. I’ve always wondered.

I wanted to make a comment here but I was called away. I’m afraid that I will be gone for the rest of this year. But if all goes well, I should be back next year.

Happy New Year!

I have 29 minutes left until 2021. Happy new year to the orb. Hubby and I are with our cats and dog and best friends, who are also fans of BCN. Love. Biskits

Oh please let this year be over.