Conference misery::feline_v1

    Isnt that second one a farside comic?

    The conversations about allergies, humor and children reminded me of a
    cartoon I saw this week.  A wife is saying to her husband, "Darling,
    let's get rid of the children.  The pets are allergic to them."
    
    Anne_who_is_a_great_aunt (but not a Great-Aunt)  ;^)
    
    
    

    Here's a good one that someone clipped and gave to me...
    
    The cartoon shows a "kitty marriage counselor" talking to a "husband
    and wife kitty couple"...the caption reads:
    
    "Things haven't been the same since he coughed up that blond hair
    ball."
    
    I found it cute!
    
    cin
    

    I have a cartoon over my desk from one of the cat mags I'm sure.
    
    it is of two aliens and a cat. The aliens are saying "Take us to
    your leader."  The thought-bubble over the cat says "I *am* their
    leader"
    
    How true.
    
    

        
        Andy clipped  this  one  from  a  paper  for me:  two cats are
        sitting in front of a fireplace knitting sweaters.  Two humans
        are also in the picture, and the caption reads:
        
        "They started by playing  with  a  small  ball  of  yarn,  and
        gradually their skills and interest level grew."
        
        

    RE:  .1   
    
    Nancy, the signature on the cartoon is "Larson", isn't that the 
    Farside guy?
    
    
    Keep them funnies a comin' folks.  These are great!  Everyone is
    wondering why I'm sitting here laughing so hard.
    
    Jan

    re: Larson - Yup, that's the guy.  I have a farside comic that
    shows a husband and wife cat, the wife is opening a can on the
    canopener and through the kitchen door you can see another 
    husband & wife cat heading this way.  The captions reads:

    "Zelda!! Cool it...The Rothenbergs hear the can opener!"

    
    
    	I have a Far Side Mug...two captions on it, the first is a woman
    	yelling at her pet, with a big ballon filled with blah's ect.
    	The caption says:  "What we say to cats"
    
    	The second picture is the same but this time the ballon coming from
    	the yelling woman is empty, and the caption says:  "What cats
    	hear" (Or something along that line...my mind is in neutral right
    	now)
    
    

    While we're on a Gary Larson roll...
    
    I have a cartoon hanging on my wall.  It shows two cats inside
    a house, one looking out a broken window, a bone lying on the 
    floor that was apparently thrown through the window and cat
    one reading a paper that has the words "ARF ARF ARF" using cut 
    out newspaper letters.  The caption reads "Dog threat letters".

    re: .8  I've seen a similar cartoon.  The top one shows a woman
    scolding her dog and shows what she's saying.  The bubble over
    the dog's head shows what he's hearing - all it has in it is the
    dog's name.  This is entitled "What dogs hear"
      Below that is a similar cartoon of woman and cat entitled
    "What cats hear" and the bubble above the cat's head is empty  :-)
    
    Personally I think they understand everything we say to them, but
    dont want to let on.

    
    Came home late the other day and asked..
    
    " Is my dinner still hot darling?"
    came the reply...
    
    "Should be,its in the cat...."
    
    Phil.
    

    
    	Well Brandi decided to leave Mom a gift on the front
    	stoop this morning....or should I say pieces of a gift....
    	not my idea of how to start the morning...
    
    	gross.....
    
    	

    A friend of mine brought me the cutest sign to put up on my wall
    today.  In light of my current "oh-gahd-I-have-to-start-dating-again"
    status I though it was very appropriate.
    
    
    	"The more I know about men, the more I love my cat"
        
    
    Jan

    
    I remember seeing a cartoon in a magazine around Thanksgiving time, it
    pictured a family sitting down to a turkey dinner, and two cats sitting
    on a chair watching the turkey being carved.  One says to the other,
    "wow, they don't even play with it first"
    
    Kathy
    
    

    Then there's the one showing a man and woman, sitting down in their
    easy chairs.  The woman is knitting (of course!), and the man is
    reading the paper (of course!).  The cat is sitting on the floor,
    in front of them, with a gas mask on.  The woman is saying to the
    man, "I think it's time to clean the litter box".
    
    I have this one hanging on the wall near our cats' box.
    
    Regards,
    

    Tho not for us cat lovers, the man who sits behind me has the
    unpleasant experience (his opinion) of listening to me talk about
    my cats all day.  He hates cats.
    
    Anyway, he posted the following cartoon outside of his office:
    
    A man and a woman are sitting in a restaurant engaged in conversation.
    They are getting very dirty looks from the people at the tables
    all around them.
    
    The waiter is standing over the man and woman talking and he says
    to them, "I'm sorry but you are going to have to move.  This is
    the no talking about cats section."
    
    I have to admit, it even made ME laugh!
    
    
    /Roberta
    
    
    

    Didn't quite know where to put this, so decided here was as good
    a place as any because it is funny.
    
    My sister gave me a craft that she made, which is a basket, with
    three little kittens.  It's all made out of clothe.  I finally decided
    to place it on my married sons empty bed between two kitten pillows.
     Well Oliver has taken it over.  He spends just about the whole
    day and part of the evening trying to sit in the basket. Only his
    head and front paws manage to get in. He still sleeps with me through 
    the night. We can't decide if he thinks these
    are his babies or he's one of them. I know he recognizes his toys,
    but to recognize stuffed kittens is something else.
                                        
    What a cat!!!  I've taken a dozen pictures.
    
    Anyone have a similar experience or any ideas?  Could he be lonesome?
     He has Geronimo (dog).
    
    Flo and Oliver
    

    
    	Yes, that reminds me of Missy's little `friend'...I bought
    	a slightly-more-than-lifesize stuffed cat at a craft show and
    	brought it home. It's resting on it's front paws with the 
    	hind end up in the air..but the BEST part is the little ball
    	of yarn glued to it's front paws...Missy would sneak up on it,
    	jump up, and try to steal it's ball of yarn away....
    
    

The cartoon "Silvia" by Nicole Hollander often has cute cat strips in it.  This 
week I clipped this one.

On the far left of the room, someone on the TV is talking and saying "Cats 
should always be reprimanded immediately, because after a few minutes, they 
probably won't remember what they did."

In the middle of the room there are two cats, one with it's arm around the other
facing the reader.  The cat on the left says "Maybe that's because we're think-
ing about stuff", and the cat on the right says "I spend most of my time 
memorizing long passages from big books."

:^D :^D :^D  Maybe I am weird, but I think this is hysterically funny.  It kind
of goes along with my cats' attitude that they do everything on purpose.  If one
of them falls off the window sill, they stand up and look me right in the eye
as if to say "I meant to do that!"

Jo

    This one was in the newspaper a couple of weeks ago.  It reminds me of
    my own cats and I'm sure many others will agree.
    
    It's Garfield.
    
    Garfield is sitting on his masters head while he is sleeping.  Garfield
    is kneeding his face.  Finally later on in the day..Garfield is
    sleeping and his master walks over to him and says "Oh Gaaarrrfield..."
    Garfield says" Oh, nooooo"
    
    Master:"  "Guess what I've got?...
    Garfield (hiding underneath a blanket): "An annoying personality?"
    Master (pulling out a ball of yarn): TAH-DAH!  A BALL OF YARN!!
    Garfield (still underneath blanket): Good for you.
    Master: (poking Garfield): Aw, C'mon, Garfield! All cats like to play
    		with yarn!
    Garfield (still under blanket): Not when they're sleepy they don't.
    Master (shaking him): ;C'MON! ;C'MON OUT AND PLAY WITH THE UARN!
    Garfield (terribly annoyed): If you insist...
    Garfield (after he has tied up his master with the ball of yarn.  The
    		ball of yarn is in his master's mouth): He's right...that was 
    		fun...
    
    
    I got a good laugh out of that....and everytime I read it...of course, a
    picture is worth a thousand words....     but I hope you all get the
    point.
    
    Michele (and princy, precious and pookie)

    re:  .19
    
    jo, you're right.  cats have such a tremendous sense of dignity (have
    you ever seen the look one of them gives you if you have the audacity
    to laugh at one of their "faux pas"?)
    
    so, of course, falling off the window sill seemed like a neat thing to
    do at the time...  ;-)
    
    diane & stella & stanley

I just finished reading Sandy Merritt's intro note about her nephew where
she tells the following anecdote:

    Well as we were filling out the adoption papers...one of the questions
    was "why do you want this cat".  My nephew looked up so innocently
    and said "because we don't have a white one".  

I thought this reply was great!  and it made me think of a couple of others,
having gone through the adoption process recently.

Q: Why do you want this cat?
A: Why shouldn't I? :-)

and the following, which is true but paraphrased due to memory failure:
(acknowledgements to Bill, who filled out this form)

Q: Will this cat be indoors or outdoors?
A: Whatever he/she wants.

By the way, I strongly recommend you all read this topic (2811) and topic 2024
again.  They are both very short, and are great for a bunch of laughs.

And, I'd like to add one of my favorite Far Sides.

A lady cat is sitting in an armchair with a box of chocolates on her lap.
A man cat is pointing to the box:

"These little ones are mice...These over here are hamsters...Ooh! This must
be a gerbil!".

Come to think of it, those chocolate lumps are pretty rodenty looking :-)

Jill who could really identify with the box of chocolates :-)