Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for April 22, 2024

She’s a born mother…..

Our cat has a middle name that I use when he is being particularly bad.

When you heard that, your goose was cooked!

Kinda like Winnie the Pooh, John the Baptist, Ivan the Terrible, Catherine the Great all shared the same middle name!!

My neighbour’s dog was named Charlie. One day, when she was getting after the dog, it was “CHARLES!”

I always gave my cats full human names.

For the first few years of my life, I thought my first name was Dam mit.

Is this her way of “getting back” at her mother for giving her a pet name?

I could normally judge how much trouble I was in by how my mother called my name when she was angry. If she just used my first name, it wasn’t too bad. If she used my first and middle name, it was worse. If she used first, middle and last name, I knew I was going to catch it hot.

I give all my friends the middle finger. It helps me when I’m angry with them.

Seems Buffy has Furniture Disease, her chest fell into her drawers

That’s like my mother. Whenever she’d call be by my full name I knew I was in trouble.

yep, always knew mom was Serious when she used our full names

As kids, when called for supper, we would see who could hold out ’til the WHOLE name was called, including numbers. Deal was, you had to be at least visible if not actually in your own yard by the time your last name was to keep the parents calm and feeling as though they were in charge :D

Huh, an update joke to make it a woke joke.

Edmund Wellington Mouseripper III, Wynken for short.

I knew of that “custom” when I was growing up in the South. I never actually heard anyone call their child by their full legal name when angry. Mothers are far too busy for that. I’m sure it’s something a comedy writer thought was cute. Possibly, it was true in the 19th century.

Now, teachers, that another thing. There is no point yelling “Stop that, Bobby.” on a crowded playground. Too many Bobbys.

I once had a cat I named Ada after Lord Byron’s daughter, so I guess the cat did have a middle name as the daughter was Augusta Ada but went by Ada

What’s Muffy Hollandaise’s middle name?

When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble. Mark Twain