Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for February 03, 2025

I ❤️ the cat’s pajamas! Lupin with his wee tea cup is SO cute!!!

That look on Elvis’ face, and twitching tail, look very familiar to me. Just like my Gracie when she hops on me and tells me it’s time to go to sleep. Remarkably, it’s the same attitude she gives me when it’s time to get up.

There are times when I can’t sleep because my mind is churning after I go to bed.

It is well past midnight here on the US east coast. Perfect time to checkout my favorite comic.

Maybe I need some of Lupin’s (presumably herbal) tea.

Woman, did you not jump rope to:

“Lizzie Borden took an ax

And gave her mother forty whacks,

And when she saw what she had done,

She gave her father forty-one."

Elvis, distraction detail! It’s her only chance of sleep.

The Lizzie Borden murders? This was one of the earliest US cases where being rich and having a high-powered lawyer with political ambitions worked in someone’s favor. Everyone knew she did it, but her lawyer got her off and the police never pursued anyone else. Rich people were above the law then, just as they are now.

Ahem Looks like the woman takes after a certain tortie we know & love

She loves mysteries.

Continue ping “what the heck do these comment terms mean” with yours truly, Po! I’ve seen people say OT: then something. What the heck does that mean?!? Fun fact: the nickname for one of my cats,Ollie, is Potato, which is why my name is PotatoLover02.

It was probably Lizzie. HTH.

Since this is a family friendly comic, I thought the -Lizzie Borden rhyme, needed a do over! Lizzie Borden took an…er…tree chopping instrument, and caused quite the incident! She may have…um…used it, on her parents, but I’m sure it was for chopping carrots! And when she saw what she had done…um…she ordered take out, for everyone! Ok, I give up! There is no way to make that rhyme, family friendly!

Elvis Toe Beans!

Pucky white floof patch x 2!

I liked the explanation in the movie starring Elizabeth Montgomery of how Lizzie did it the best. She didn’t get any blood on her clothes because she removed them all before murdering her parents and then simply rinsed the evidence off, pouring it down the basement loo.

Where’s Robin to tell us that the Woman’s sleep is doomed?

The woman needs to put that phone away if she has to get up early X

I"ve been there too many times.. including today for instance.

OT. Relapse

Lizze who and why he was murdereds?

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

At the oPyramid Library

Beatrixia: Thanks for setting out the display of ancient legend scrolls, Obie. Just in time for Phil-Adelph and Groundhog Day.

Obadiah Opossum: No oProblem! It was my oPleasure!

Bea: I’m considering doing a display of Ancient Mysteries scrolls. For example, what became of the famous explorer and Polo Player, Marco.

Obie: And I understand the moles have a legend of the mysterious rain of colorful gumballs that has been lost in futurity. (October 27, 2023)

Bea: Now we have time to go and celebrate Groundhog Day. I understand Phil saw his shadow. So you know what that means.

Obie: The main buffet will feature Chocolate Everything.

Bea: And the Ancient and Accepted Procurers’ Guild is bringing in cheese From Where We Know Not and brand new Xanadu Honey. And maybe a visit from an old friend.

Enter Old Friend

Friend: And here I am!

Bea: Beaver Lee Cleary! It’s so good to see you.

Bev: And maybe we can talk about some old legends while I’m here.

Woman, you need to put the phone away if you are going to get any sleep!

That’s so me but instead, I’m solving mysteries about lost flights and ships with my best friend.

That’s the only time we notice our phones at night.

I wonder how the Woman would get along with Dale Gribble. This reminds me distinctly of the time he stayed up with Khan and solved the Kennedy and Lincoln assassinations, and got halfway through McKinley to boot.

Boy, is the Woman going to jump a mile when the Running of the Cats starts at 2 AM!

We’ve all been there.

I thought they lived in the big pink house, not an apartment.

Marie likes True-Crime stories, and I think she’s read several volumes on the Lizi Borden murders.

Lizzie Borden was found innocent of all charges on June 23, 1893

Miss Lizzie Borden (so they say)

Chopped up her folks one August day.

The experts gave us all the specs:

She lusted after her own sex;

Beheading kittens (two or three)

She regularly did with glee;

She stole the goods she could have bought;

Her music lessons came to naught;

She was a dropout, though ’tis said

She was uncommonly well-read.

She sailed to Europe – that we know

And overspent her budget, so

The girl wired home for extra cash…

Her father wired back, “Balderdash!”

She had to borrow from a friend,

Which set her thinking how to send

Old Andrew up to Heaven’s throne

And get his fortune for her own.

Of course, there was one tiny hitch:

His wife – that sly and scheming witch!

He could leave no widowed missus,

For all the money must be Lizzie’s.

(She’d share with Sister Emma, who

Was fond of filthy lucre too.)

The plot was hatched, the hatchet ground;

She waited till the time came ’round –

The perfect moment, when the coast

Was clear, and she could make the most

Of Emma’s summer interlude,

For poor, dear Emma was a prude,

Who wouldn’t sanction shedding blood,

Though Lizzie fancied Emma would

Be all too glad to help her spend

The proceeds of it in the end.

She chose a perfect summer day;

‘Twas hellish hot, the stories say.

A houseguest put her plan in doubt,

But handily, he sauntered out

To visit elsewhere in the town.

But then the maid was duty-bound

To wash the windows in and out,

Assuring she would be about

The place and surely interfere

With Lizzie’s plan – but never fear –

Our Lizzie was a fearless sort;

She donned her paint-smeared Bedford cord,

Crept noiselessly up the stair,

And slew that “mean old thing” up there;

Rained blows upon her old gray head,

Till she was well and truly dead.

I thought that they were going to say “A perfect time to take a nap on the Woman’s face.”

BTW, I like that they refer to her as “The Woman.” I’ve always been vaguely irritated when the people at the vet’s call me my cats’ “Mom”. I’ve also seen books and a movie where the animals refer to their “Moms”. They are my dear friends and companions, but I doubt if they think of me as “Mom”. More likely “The Can Opener.”

I’ve never understood the obsession with “true crime.” Certainly I wouldn’t read something like that at bedtime of all times – my night time reading is generally something light & preferably funny+, for pure escape from my prevailing anxious & depressed state!

+Currently it’s Pratchett’s Discworld series.

Some nights I can’t stop tossing and turning in my nest. Sigh.

“Massachusetts is a far cry from New York.”

She needs someone to tell her to “put that down and go to sleep!”

Some folks say she didn’t do it. Others say “of course she did.” But they all agree Miss Lizzie B. was a problem kind of kid.

None better, Elvis!