Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for February 04, 2025

Lupin, we’re on the air and kittens may be watching!

Leave it to Lupin to be a fan! I guess the “Lizzie Borden Workout” could relieve stress. LOL

Puck’s face when he realizes… And Lupin wanting to find out!

I did the same reading up on Wikipedia during work today . . . .and yeah, Pucky. I hear you. DANG! That’s very appropriate.

Heeeeey! How are y’all doin? I know that probably none of you guys are on Sketches, but if you are, PLEASE find my art and search deep in your heart to find the courage to click the little like button. I’ve posted 10 drawings and haven’t gotten a single like. Starting to feel like I’m bad at it. Restore my self esteem!

Puck is grossed out.

Burt’s ironic chyron is perfect!

Oh, yes, Puck, I think we’re going to hear a lot of dangs today. Just please don’t let Luping teach Ora Zella that song!

Lupin is amused.

Whacks on, whacks off. Repeat 20 times each.

Puck’s peace of mind is doomed.

[bro] who is lizzie borden? I seriously don’t know

Soooo way back when I would go to my middle school or high school library and find books about ghosts and hauntings. I think that’s mostly how I learned about the Lizzie Borden case. Although it does annoy me that I keep hearing different versions of how things went down, such as who discovered Mr. Borden’s body, where everyone was at the time of the discovery, etc…

But mostly I just like the ghost stories about the Borden house. Those are always fun. :D

There are recent claims that DNA evidence has finally identified Jack the Ripper. It turns out he wasn’t Springheel Jack, which is a bit of a disappointment.

LUPIN!

It’s National “Thank a Mail Carrier Day” so maybe Puck can focus on that.

She repented, and turned herself in ???

I didn’t know about Lizzie Borden, had to look it up. Thought you would like a bit of Quebec folklore about Marie-Josephte Corriveau (pronounced Korivo), a woman executed for killing her second husband in 1763, right after the English conquest of New France. First her father was convicted for the suspicious death of her violent husband. The night before he was set to be executed, he confessed to a priest that he was actually covering his daughter. The priest felt it was bad enough to break the secret of confession and report this to the authorities. La Corriveau, as she is known, was arrested, found guilty and condemned to hang. The English authorities added an extra layer of cruelty unheard of in North America: La Corriveau was to be enclosed in an iron cage, hanged in it, and then her body would be exposed publicly. People were horrified, reported strange noises and ghost sightings. Eventually, the body, still in the cage, was buried in an unmarked grave.And this is where the story really gets weird. Many years later, workers digging in that spot found the cage with some bones still in it. La Corriveau was not forgotten, a whole folklore had grown upon her tragic story, they knew right away what they had found. The discovery of the cage eventually came to the ears of PT Barnum, who bought it for his museum of horrors in New York. The cage was considered lost in the fire of the museum in 1865. But! Very recently, in the 2010s, members of a Quebec historical society discovered that the cage had been on loan to another museum at the time. After some research, it turned out that this museum in New England still had the cage in its collection! They agreed to sent it for expertise to a museum in Quebec City, which authenticated the cage as dating from the 18th century and likely the one made for La Corriveau since there are no other instances of that particular punishment being used in North America.

I remember watching th TV movie when I was a kid in 1975, I drove everybody crazy for weeks singing that song.

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

At the Royal Dining Hall

Queen Catshepsut the Golden: Welcome, Librarian Beaver Lee Cleary and the Beaver Division of the Ancient and Accepted Procurers’ Guild.

All: Hear! Hear!

Queen Cat: And a special shout out to the Xanadu Hive Bees for supplying their latest exquisite honey!

All: Hear! Hear!

Queen Titania of the Xanadu Hive: Thank you, Your Majesty. Now we will take our leave, as I understand Trevor-Hotep has invited us to a lovely flower luncheon.

Queen Cat: Yes. I understand Avenger and Emma, our noble steeds, will supply transportation.

Queen Titania: And I would like to give a shout out to Bea and Vi for solving the mystery of the Space Time Anemone Honey.

Beatrixia: There are so many mysteries that have yet to be solved. Bev and I are working on a display of scrolls dedicated to ancient mysteries.

Iggy: Maybe you can solve the Voyage Scroll, which no one has been able to translate.

Im not sure I ever envisioned reading about cats discussing Lizzie Borden as part of my life path

For those interested in the story of Lizzie Borden, The Morbid Curiosity Podcast has an excellent episode. It’s not sensationalist and Halllie, the host, has a lovely, soothing voice. mcpod (dot) libsyn (dot) com/lizzie-borden-mcp-remastered

I was telling my clowder about this strip this morning. I hope I didn’t give them any ideas!

Funny how I actually never heard of Lizzie till yesterday.

I would refer you to yesterday’s submission that I posted, a little ditty about Lizzie Borden that explains all.

Lupin is super into this! Probably not a good thing.

Bet Wikipedia is seeing a spike in Lizzie Borden searches.

I think Puck is going to need some baby-sling time with the Woman to get over this.

Live recording of the 1961 hit song “Lizzie Borden” by The Chad Mitchell Trio

www.youtube.Com/watch?v=kdF428jC6vw

Well, at least we know Lizzie could out to forty…

Further evidence that Lupin is a Toddler – or at least a kid!

gave her mother 41….actually her step mother…poor sweet Puck is too sensitive!

Pucky Bear is too sweet and gentle to be reading real crime.

Oh no! The Woman has found true crime. So much for sleeping tonight!

I LOVE the tale of Lizzie Borden! Those ominous nursery rhymes always send shivers up my spine!

OT: Musical interlude

Tell me, does the Woman have any awareness of her cats prowling around with microphones?

Our earworm for the day :)

Curiosity disturbs the cat! Please spare the gruesome details.

I have a new kitten, Pedro, who likes to type messages. This is his message to the orb.

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OT

I’m not so sure that any of the cats should be looking at this before bedtime!

Poor dad.

Just don’t let OZ see it.

I was just looking to see how far back I can go to look at the early strips. You can scroll clear back to 2010, but there are no accessible dates until October 2014, where they show up twice a week. Odd.

An old rhyme: Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother 40 whacks. When she saw one she had done, she gave her father 41.

Oh, Loooooopin!