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Conference misery::feline

Title:Meower Power - Where Differing Opinions are Respected
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Moderator:JULIET::CORDES_JA
Created:Wed Nov 13 1991
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1079
Total number of notes:28858

535.0. "Is that MY CAT on TV????" by CREATV::DANA () Thu May 06 1993 12:59

    Last night after working til 10 pm I was sitting down watching some TV,
    when an Acura commercial came on.  One of the scenes shows a car in a
    garage, and there's a cat sitting on his haunches near the car.
    
    THAT's MY CAT!!!!!
    
    They only show the cat for a second or so, but my jaw dropped.  That
    cat looks JUST LIKE my SPunky, with all his strange swirly gray and
    white.  I've got to get a second look and see if he has the distinctive
    ears (stripe up one, white tip on the other).  
    
    Could he have been a famous TV kitty before he left for a life of crime
    and dumpster living???????????
    
    Dana
    
    
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535.1It's just their little secretNETWKS::GASKELLMon May 17 1993 07:1411
    Anything is possible when you are talking about a cat.  I don't know
    where any of my bunch came from.  I have suspected for a few months now
    that they are leading a double life.  I don't think they have been
    appearing on TV, however.  At least, I haven't seen them spending money
    and driving around in fancy cars--but maybe I just haven't been looking
    at the right time.  
    
    I don't ask many questions as to their origins.  If no one answers my
    initial adds, then the cats are mine.  I wouldn't give them up for
    anything, so I'm not asking them too many questions on their past
    lives.  Not that would tell me if I did.
535.2MCIS5::WOOLNERYour dinner is in the supermarketMon May 17 1993 10:468
    You know, of course, that Steve Martin's cat embezzled from him for
    quite a while before he found out it was going to the bank with a
    little kitty-arrow-through-the-head and cashing Steve's checks.  The
    only way Steve found out was when he discovered *thousands of dollars
    worth* of cat toys scattered through the house.  "SURE, they're *FUN*,"
    Steve says, "... I *hate* it when they go under the refrigerator!"
    
    Leslie
535.3BICYCL::RYERThis note made from 100% recycled bits.Tue May 18 1993 08:213
Yes, and you can't return 'em 'cause they've got spit all over them!

-Patrick
535.4Income producing felinesCREATV::DANATue May 18 1993 10:4913
    Hehehe - I don't know HOW MANY TIMES I've gotten nose-to-nose with one
    of my furfaces and lectured them about paying their own way.  Just
    thinking about Spunky being able to contribute to the bottom line of
    the household makes me want to track down the cat in this commercial. 
    The resemblance is absolutely striking.  
    
    Have any of you ever heard Garrison Keillor's song about Fluffy, aka
    Clarice, the cat who left home because she thought she deserved
    better, went to Hollywood, made cat food commercials, got hooked on
    salmon, and gained 23 lbs, then came back home a humbler kitty,
    thankful for mere suburban existence?  Maybe that's his story!
    
    Dana
535.5another Steve Martin fanDAGWST::BROWNeverybody run Prom Queen's Gotta Gun!Thu May 20 1993 14:026
    Re: .2 and .3
    
    "you think you know a cat for ten years, and he pulls something like
    this!"
    
    Jo