Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for September 20, 2024

I’m stocking up on stockings for my Christmas pumpkins. Maybe even buy some pumps for my pumpkins…

If you do not carve your pumpkin(s) for Halloween, they should easily last until Thanksgiving. At least they do for me.

Dye them pink and blue, cut them open and fill them with chocolate, and hide them for Easter eggs.

Paint them gold for St Paddy’s day and tell your friends you finally got that stingy Leprechaun’s treasure!

Nunca los he visto tan felices.

Is Tabitha holding a picture of cranberry space goo?

Thanksgiving = cranberry space goo

We found out from the archival footage of Baba’s days as a reporter that Jules has been around for a very long time. Perhaps he is also immortal! Now I’m picturing Jules wearing Red Baron goggles and leather helmet inside a flying pumpkin with bat wings, his scarf flying in the wind. Do July bugs fly south for the winter? Would that make them January bugs in Australia?

Es posible.

By the way, pumpkin spice candy canes do exist. There are also bacon candy canes, too. hyurrgh

Nada dice “Te amo” como el regalo de una calabaza en miniatura en el Día de San Valentín.

Another minor oops: “Si” without an accent means “if”; for “yes”, it has to be “Sí”.

Stockings are “medias,” but thanks for the Spanish strips. They are a lot of fun and I hope you don’t think I’m nitpicking! (just trying to help).

…and then in the attic for the rest of the year, forget they’re there and buy new next year!

I am especially fond of the cranberry space goo when it is decoratively molded by the can.

YES. Steenky narrow fonts is good only for large sized text.

OT but still about cats

Mix them, into a fruitcake, and they WILL last forever!

Interesting that Burt translated the Day of the Dead as “Halloween”. Halloween (All Hallows Eve) is October 31, while the Day of the Dead is November 1 (and 2).

My copy of Good as Goldie arrived this week!

OT cat tribute on Reddit r/cats

Can’t wait to get a tiny pumpkin in my stocking this year! :)

I don’t speak Spanish, but I like looking at the language and translation to spot the connections between Spanish words and English. For example “afirmando” and “claiming”, you can spot “affirm” in the former and see that it’s similar to “claim” because you have to affirm it’s true.

cómpralAs, muéstralAs, mételAs… Thanksgiving can be translated to “Acción de Gracias”… Hopefully Georgia will run these strips past a professional translator…

On New Year’s Day, we celebrate

Bonkers tiny pumpkins, so fun to swat away

They’re good to fling, such joy they bring

In fact, they liven up each ordinary day

When April rains, they brighten gloom

Dear Ig can line them up in ev’ry single room

So what this is, like a Goldie clue

Made up of these three words that we must say to you

We’re on air to say we love them

We’re on air to say, put them ev’rywhere

We’re on air to say we love them

And we’d love to see some in sweet Sophie’s art

When summer’s high, we let them fly

Li’l OZ has bombs to light one each 4th of July

In autumn breeze, the falling leaves

Even Puck has time to bat them as he clears the skies

We have such fun, on Halloween

And we give thanks for all immortal orange things

So what this is, like old space goo

Will blow your mind like Lupin and his derring-do

We’re on air to say we love them

We’re on air to say, we share, we do

We’re on air to say we love them

And we’d love to see them melt Elvis’ noble heart

/Stevie Wonder /I Just Called to Say I Love You

“¡Cómpralas para EL Dia de los Muertos, y muéstralas para Thanksgiving!” missing initial exclamation point and article

Figaro last panel should read: ¡Mételas en med i as en Navidad!" missing an “i” for socks…

I love how much Tabitha and Sir Figaro Newton are enjoying the tiny pumpkins.

Yes! Every holiday is a pumpkin holiday! Hide them for Easter, compost them for Earth Day, blow them up for the Fourth of July! Pumpkins all year!

The other day some of us were trying to find a strip that showed if the BPH used fuses or breakers for its power. Reading Good as Goldie I found the strip from August 12, 2019. Burt says they had a fuse out, though it shows him flipping something and the panel looks more like breakers.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Iggy: I love your Feast of Candy tapestry. Beatrixia and I have a few ideas on how to arrange the jewels and the candy jewels.

Bea: I would like to test them out first. Sophititi, do you have any fabric that you don’t need?

Soph: I have some curtain material from a project I was working on awhile back. It’s roughly the size of the tapestry.

Iggy: That’ll work out nicely. Now let’s get some stones and put them in place, along with some candy jewels.

Bea: And now we’ll climb the curtain and grab the candy.

Voice: Did someone mention candy?

Another Voice: And we’re gonna help.

Maat-Tilda: Lupinium! Back from the tumbling exhibition already?

Lupinium: Avenger gave me a lift after we were done. And I met Ora Z on the way back.

Ora Z: Now, we can eat the tapestry!

Adobe Style: Oh dear, will we have enough candy to go around?

Soph: Not to worry. I just heard the sound of giggling in the background.

Tiny pumpkins make good gag gifts for golfers.

No lo olvides, son grandes cabezas para los jinetes que han perdido la suya. Además, si destripas las calabazas, las asas y las combinas

con especias y leche condensada, puedes hacer un pastel delicioso.

Si alguna vez una calabaza fuera tan redonda y anaranjada como tú,

Seguramente me gustaría ver.

Porque eres el mejor compañero que tengo,

Nunca te mueves de tu lugar ni te equivocas.

Tú haces pasteles dulces, barras y pan.

Muchas porciones de ti tomo.

Te espero todo el año

Y espera a que crezcas de la tierra.

Muchas imágenes divertidas que puedo tallar.

En tu cara tan grande.

Temo el día en que debas irte

Y hay que esperar a la próxima semilla de calabaza.

I think it’s time for an intervention—raccoons & possums band together to take out the pumpkins. As Gutter’s cousin Henry ll put it, “Who will rid me of these troublesome squashes?”

OT: Day in court…

UGH. It’s today.

I’ve been awake since 5am. Nervous, but not freaking out…

(TMI follows…)

If tiny pumpkins did last forever, there would be no new tiny pumpkins. Put them in moist soil and they will live on as a new generation.

“medias”

Whoa! I have a sudden craving for some cranberry space goo.

Might I request that all of the Spanish Grammarians start a SINGLE Off-Topic thread so that you can post all your recommendations/corrections in one place? That way, Georgia can find all of them if she wishes, and those of use who aren’t interested can skip over them.

These discussions are getting a bit tedious for some of us!

I wonder how many kitties will enjoy a pumpkin in their Christmas stocking!!!

They are out of their gourds.

That is an amazingly translucent depiction of Cranberry Space Goo. I can’t believe how impressed I am with that tiny throwaway craftsmanship.

Trust me, the tiny pumpkins rot. I learned that the hard way.

A truly infinite cycle of giving and getting. The lifespan of a tiny pumpkin allows it to hold the wisdom of many centuries, so cats often eat them to become smarter.

yo no hablo mucho espanol, pero me un pico mucho engles.

Rock star!

“Play with them year-round!”

OT: Not a good day.

Never thought of them as stocking stuffers.

I like Figaro. He’s a tuxedo cat, like my cat Petey.

I love the sweet expression on Tabitha’s face! The most blissful I’ve seen her!

And I’m up to date – after a year off from GC, BCN was the first strip I wanted to catch up on, and it’s been quite a ride to catch up on a year’s strips, and the Orb’s stories BTL, in less than a week. So many congratulations, commiserations and sympathies are due, but I will simply express them all by changing my profile pic to my beloved reporter (specialist subject: mices) Poppy.