Lio by Mark Tatulli for June 14, 2022

wise choice, Lio, on deciding something else to read

How about, The Cat in the Lampshade Hat?

I have a vague recollection of my mother using “in the bag” to refer to her alcoholic brother being drunk. I wonder if the phrase isn’t a Philadelphia/South-Jersey regionalism. Anyone?

Does Cybil think she’s doing taxidermy?

The Kid in the Comic

Read somewhere that the expression “Let the cat out of the bag” came from the middle ages when you bought a pig and it was stuffed in a sack. The seller often cheated and used a stray cat instead. Thus your “Pig in a poke” became “Let the cat of the bag” when you got home.

Monty today has Sedgwick reciting from Green Eggs and Ham.

Or, “The Cat In His Kups”!

(I know it’s a C, and not a K, but it appears that that word is on GoComics’ “banned words” list.)

I guess sharing is right out. :)

The Cat in His

Only Sybil!