Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for October 24, 2023

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    uncle snipe  about 1 year ago

    THIMBLEFIST THE MIGHTY! Aw heck no says the mighty wee one! Beaks cracked while you wait!

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    McColl34 Premium Member about 1 year ago

    Thimblefist for the win!! I suspect that he will either need a new thimble now, or that this one will be permanently attached!

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    that_jedi_girl  about 1 year ago

    Why you should never eat with your eyes closed?

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    2GreyCats  about 1 year ago

    Oh, excellent! Tiny, but mighty!

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    Aspen_Bell  about 1 year ago

    OW

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    Le'letha Premium Member about 1 year ago

    Diamonds and dynamite come in small packages!

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    McColl34 Premium Member about 1 year ago

    Look at that massive polydactyl paw covering Magazine’s head!

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    2GreyCats  about 1 year ago

    Beatrix and Mag holding paws…

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    uncle snipe  about 1 year ago

    I could totally hear a Scottish accent coming from Thimblefist. His beef can does resemble a kilt, if you let your imagination run wild.

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    Aspen_Bell  about 1 year ago

    I also like Georgia’s different signature with her stylized initials.

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    Lily.spokescat  about 1 year ago

    Oh I love this soo much!!!

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    uncle snipe  about 1 year ago

    I’m glad the Scribe is getting all of this action recorded. A moment for the history books. Thimblefist will forever be the hero of the day.

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    rheddmobile  about 1 year ago

    What’s particularly heroic about this is that unlike Magazine, Thimblefist is exactly barn owl-breakfast-sized! Wicket might really hurt little Mag but she’s really too big and well-armed for him to carry off. BTW I saw a similar scene tonight, one of my barred owls dove and missed a mouse in a tree near me. I think he was most put out and flew off in a huff. Large opposum and baby raccoon both made themselves scarce.

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    azkfwecho Premium Member about 1 year ago

    Thimblefist was in the foreground of yesterday’s comic, which maybe should have been a bit of foreshadowing. I sure wish it had been Monty, though, who somehow came through and saved the day. He may yet come through. It’s only Tuesday.

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    Bub5g  about 1 year ago

    OOH…that’s gonna hurt! Surprised Thimblefist’s thimbles were strong enough to do that!

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    Gloria Fleming  about 1 year ago

    Thank Cat the girls are safe!!! Thimblefist……our hero!!!

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    dmah Premium Member about 1 year ago

    Oh, wow, there’s a literal huge crack in Wicket’s beak. That’s going to put him back at the Quinn Sanctuary for a while, possibly for good, if it can’t heal?

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    azkfwecho Premium Member about 1 year ago

    For those of you who commented on my OT comment from last night (on Monday’s comic — this is getting confusing!) Anyway, I left an update on Monday’s comic on my hubby. It’s near the bottom of my OT comment. If anyone can’t find it, or would prefer I copy and post it here, let me know. It isn’t too difficult to copy and paste it here.

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    Sue Ellen  about 1 year ago

    Oh, Baba! That thimble you returned wasn’t such a small thing after all.

    2020/06/27

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    azkfwecho Premium Member about 1 year ago

    If that beak had connected, it could have done some damage to the princess, especially since her crown seemed to have gotten knocked off. However, I do have to comment that an owl (or any raptor actually) going at their prey beak first is not usually the way they attack their prey. So suspending disbelief a bit here for a wonderful outcome (which we all knew Georgia would come up with).

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    Jayfbird1969 Premium Member about 1 year ago

    Hooray for Thimblefists! A heroic warrior SHOUTMUNK! A legend for the ages! May ballads of his deeds be sung throughout the land!

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    Brian  Premium Member about 1 year ago

    And the comments go wild.

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    Jacob Mattingly   about 1 year ago

    I was expecting Burt but dang thimble fist nice save.

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    Gloria Fleming  about 1 year ago

    So with a broken beak, does that mean that Wicket is doomed to pureed food from the Freddie Quinn Wlidlife Center for the rest of his miserable life and the field animals are free from him??It is his beak that cracked and not Thimblefist’s thimble/paw, right??And what’s happening with puck!?!? I know, i know, patience grasshopper.

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    marilynnbyerly  about 1 year ago

    That is one honking big owl. Very scary. I doubt the fight is out of him yet so the Robber Mice and the other fighters can get in some blows. I’m still waiting for the fire extinguisher and that bag of flour to be deployed.

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    azkfwecho Premium Member about 1 year ago

    I just realized that Monty and Mona are both there looking on as well. So maybe there will be some interaction with Monty and Wicket where he tells him to buzz off or something at least.

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    BarbaraKrooss  about 1 year ago

    This prompted me to do a bit of research on cracked beaks. Birds have nerve endings in their beaks, so Wicket may be in for a world of hurt, like a toothache from a cracked tooth. Beaks grow the way our nails do, so it might grow out and heal just fine with time. But it could also get infected, or his beak end could fall off. Looks like a job for Dr. Man and nursing care and a soft diet and rehab at Quinn. Opinions are mixed on whether a patch attached by superglue would be a good idea or not. Could save the beak, but the glue application could be painful. And as those of us who’ve accidentally superglued our fingers together might guess, there’s always a risk of getting glue on his tongue or accidentally glueing his beak shut. In any case, his predatory career’s likely to be on hold for a while.

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    Last Rose Of Summer Premium Member about 1 year ago

    Listen you Great Horned Bully, we have just begun to fight! Begone Knave!

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    Lady Bri  about 1 year ago

    Well, it’s not how I thought it would happen, but at least someone whacked him one in the mouth. So I’m satisfied. :D Good on ya’ Thimblefist!

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    ikini Premium Member about 1 year ago

    That “pop”… Do you suppose that Thimblefist bounced off of Beatrix’s head as he rolled down the hill? Could that have been what gave him the momentum to meet Wicket in the air?

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    Sionyx  about 1 year ago

    …And back to the wildlife center goes Wicket.

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    Maizing  about 1 year ago

    Those who predicted that Thimblefist would be the hero were right on target.

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    Gent  about 1 year ago

    Owl just says someone going to needs a prosthetic beak set.

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    Gent  about 1 year ago

    Ladies and gentlemens, the moment we owl was waitings for.

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    Gent  about 1 year ago

    Not worries you wicket owl’d bird. It is going to be owlright after repairs. Or maybe you is needs an owlternative beak.

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    Robin Harwood  about 1 year ago

    A crack of doom?

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    Gent  about 1 year ago

    And so Thimble Fist is gots a new name thanks to his mighty fist, The Beakbreaker!

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    face.less_b  about 1 year ago

    Well it appears Wicket has spent too little time in the wild. The proper form for attack is talons first. One talon for the chipmunk and another for the young raccoon.

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    WelshRat Premium Member about 1 year ago

    So, it becomes the ‘Battle of Broken Beak’?

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    cb8ty  about 1 year ago

    Thimblefist took care of Bea in the tree too. He’s been an unsung hero for awhile. But no more!!!

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    Gent  about 1 year ago

    Eeeek! Fowl freak’s beak look bleak!

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    Pet  about 1 year ago

    Go Thimblefist!

    :-))

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    AmazingMrWonderful  about 1 year ago

    Atta Boy Thimblefist !! Mess with the young ones and you get the BEEF.

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    FreyjaRN Premium Member about 1 year ago

    Get him, Thimblefist! It serves him right.

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    andycat Premium Member about 1 year ago

    So many thoughts:

    If only Dr. Scuttles could have been there to witness this. Hopefully he’ll get to see a replay on BCN.

    Will there be a scene with sweeping music where the Princess gives the Mercenary With a Heart of Gold a medal?

    I can see Homestyle and Thimblefist being offered jobs as royal bodyguards, but maybe with a more spectacular-sounding title.

    I wonder if they would turn it down because they prefer the freedom of mercenary life?

    Even if the former is true now, if they ever want to leave behind the uncertainty of mercenary living, they have a place with the Raccoons.

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    tatempleman  about 1 year ago

    When young Mag and Bea are in danger, the small but mighty hero Thimblefist, without hesitation, hurls himself at the much larger foe and strikes a decisive blow!

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    tatempleman  about 1 year ago

    And I love how Bea does her best to shield young Mag – I believe they’ll be fast friends in the years to come.

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    kimmie260  about 1 year ago

    I see a BFF developing between Bea and young Mag.

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    arolarson Premium Member about 1 year ago

    Quite the satisfactory villain smiting! Now to clear up the Puck subplot and then onward to the Victory Ceremonies and appropriate feasting! Wrapping up just in time for Halloween!

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    katey11 Premium Member about 1 year ago

    Who called it? I think 2 people said Thimblefist would shine! (Maybe more but 2 I remember.)

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    katey11 Premium Member about 1 year ago

    A cracked beak should get him back to rehab permanently. And eating mush.

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    Kitty Katz  about 1 year ago

    Bobby Russell, sung by Vicki Lawrence and Reba McEntire, The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia

    Jules was going on home from his July stint,

    He’d been flying around and he got a hint

    That trouble was brewing so he rallied his friends.

    He said, “Mags is my friend, and you know that’s right,”

    But she is in a real fix tonight

    She’ll need your help for this all to end!

    Homestyle and Thimble Fist answered the call

    And Jules said, "Now I have to go,

    But I know you are smart, and I know you will help."

    …….

    That’s the night that the lights went out in the wild

    That’s the night that Wicket will always regret!

    Well, don’t trust your beak to your nefarious planning

    ‘Cause you’re gonna do something that you’re gonna regret!

    …….

    The went to the woods and they found the Queen

    And pledged their service in the forest green

    While the moles made their tunnels all throughout the field

    But Puck did his bit, as did Bea and Young Mags

    And Mona did her part, though some moles lagged

    And Monty was still there to make his attack!

    (Continued Below)

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    cat19632001  about 1 year ago

    Now Magazine just needs to put her tiara back on and everything’s fine.

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    rs0204 Premium Member about 1 year ago

    I don’t think they’re out of the woods yet. Which way will tomorrow’s installment zig…or zag?

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    Katzen1415  about 1 year ago

    That answers my question from Saturday! Go Thimblefist!

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    I AM CARTOON LADY!  about 1 year ago

    You go, Thimblefist! And it looks like, The Mice Girls are leaping into action in panel 2!

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    DorseyBelle  about 1 year ago

    RSO…[Rare Sighting Of] (1) diagonal panels, (2) Guinea pig scribe, (3) those fists of steel (steel thimble) being used for more than show.

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    DorseyBelle  about 1 year ago

    Beatrix wasn’t right beside Magazine yesterday, but they’re hugging each other right now. Dear Beatrix ran TO her new friend rather than AWAY from danger! How brave and how kind!

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    lsnielson  about 1 year ago

    What a leap! Way to go Thimblefist!

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    misty  about 1 year ago

    You’re a mean one, inch for inch,

    You really lack appeal,

    You’re as wicked as the devil, havin’ babies as a meal, it’s a cinch,

    You’re a bad one tryin’ to get poor kit in a deadly clinch

    You’re a monster, makes us squinch,

    But Thimble’s on a roll,

    Saving Mag, he did not hesitate, so brave in heart and soul, in a pinch,

    Thimblefist is one cute, clever, fearless hero – savior of cat, raccoon and mole ❤️

    - You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch – Dr. Seuss

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    kappy.mrnustik Premium Member about 1 year ago

    Am I the only one in The Orb who thinks it looks like the BEAK BIT THE THIMBLE??? Just saying.

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    scyphi26  about 1 year ago

    Ooh! That’s gotta hurt!

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    Willywise52 Premium Member about 1 year ago

    Don’t birds of prey come in talons first?Just sayin’…

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    JohnTheFoole  about 1 year ago

    Heavens!

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    wolfiiig  about 1 year ago

    Truly, a backyard brawl (as in Pitt v. WVU!)

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    Janet Gamble Premium Member about 1 year ago

    Bad owl! Trying to attack children?! You deserve a cracked beak, and the mouse beat down, that it looks you are about to get!

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    sugordon  about 1 year ago

    Hoorah for brave Thimblefest, but what about the second front at the Big Pink House with the attack of the angry moles?

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    Daltongang Premium Member about 1 year ago

    For the sake of the children everywhere, can we cease and desist with all of this violence?

    First Montague gets blasted out of the yard and into his senses with an air cannon and now Wicket had crunched down on Thimblefist’s thimble. Either Thimblefist will be thimblefistless or Wicket will break a beak. Either way, the horror of all this is not only frightening but will cause mental torment and anguish to young children everywhere.

    How many must a mole tunnel through

    Before you call him a mole?

    How many seas must a white owl sail

    Before he sleeps in the sand?

    Yes, and how many times must Montague fly

    Before shooting moles is banned?

    The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind

    The answer is blowin’ in the wind

    Yes, and how many years must a dumpster exist

    Before it is washed and cleaned?

    And how many years can some raccoons exist

    Before they’re allowed to live free?

    Yes, and how many times can an opossum turn it’s head

    And pretend that he just doesn’t see?

    The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind

    The answer is blowin’ in the wind

    Yes, and how many times must a mouse look up

    To see the Owl swoop in the sky?

    And how many ears must one kitten have

    Before he can hear people cry?

    Yes, and how many wars will it take ’til he knows

    That too many creatures have died?

    The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind

    The answer is blowin’ in the wind

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    Granny Roberta  about 1 year ago

    I absolutely LOVE the rolling ‘beef’ label.

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    mepowell  about 1 year ago

    After all our speculation, I think this is the first time that not one of us guessed it would be Thimblefist to defeat Wicket!

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    bonita.eley  about 1 year ago

    The thimble brilliant!!

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    Ignatz Premium Member about 1 year ago

    “Though she be but little she is fierce.” – Shakespeare

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    christineracine77  about 1 year ago

    Looks like it will be back to the wildlife rehab for Wicked Wicket when this all wraps up! And he will probably be deemed un-releasable this time. Poor rehabbers . . .

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    Zoomer&Yeti  about 1 year ago

    ALERT, ALERT . . . A Corporal Mittens sighting over on Brewster-Rocket.

    https://www.gocomics.Com/brewsterrockit/2023/10/24

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    The Wolf In Your Midst  about 1 year ago

    O stout and energetic shoutmunk, henceforth shalt thou be known as Thimblefist, stalwart protector of the realm!

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    (I don’t get to bust out the Old English nearly often enough.)

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    Red Bird  about 1 year ago

    POW! Right in the kisser. Wicket got what he deserved.

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    anomalous4  about 1 year ago

    Welp, I for one was not expecting that! I hope the Mega-Orb will forgive my many enthusiastic exclamations of HUZZAH! today…but I’ve been grinning ear-to-ear all morning over this turn of events!

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    I'm Sad  about 1 year ago

    Go beef! Great storyline!

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    Stygia Premium Member about 1 year ago

    Thimblefist to the rescue!

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    Mr. Reader  about 1 year ago

    FOR GLORY

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    scaeva Premium Member about 1 year ago

    Queen Mags will make him a earl: Jarl Thimblefist Beakbreaker—inspired by the Viking Jarl of Orkney who was called Hausakleuff, or “Skullsplitter.”

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    daswaff  about 1 year ago

    “Left handed fighters, they’re the worst. They lead with their face mostly, trying to throw that big left.” ‘Rocky’ Guessing Wicket is a southpaw ;-)

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    GSD Mom Premium Member about 1 year ago

    GO THIMBLEFIST, GO!!!

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    mepowell  about 1 year ago

    From Georgia: “I always knew that I wanted to give Thimblefist a big “hero’s moment.” And I knew that when the time came, I wanted one little thimble to make all the difference. Today it has.As I write, I leave a lot of doors open for myself. Thimblefist’s right thimble (his right) was one of them. I never spell it out directly in the comic, but Wicket is truly BAD NEWS. The reason the mice are always so ready to tussle with him is because he picked off their ancestors, including the Golden Mouse’s mate. (This is never said by the characters, but if you look over the paintings of Agatha’s life during the Golden Mouse Saga in ‘Elvis Puffs Out’, the timeline is there.) While the cats are somewhat sheltered from the cruelty of outdoor predators, the Wildlands creatures know exactly what Wicket is capable of. Their stakes are high. Thimblefist is not thwarting a kidnapping, he is saving Princess Magazine’s life. “…Even a small thing can carry a lot of weight in the right paws.” A tiny hero rises!”

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    SallyLin   about 1 year ago

    Thimblefist to the rescue!

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    cb8ty  about 1 year ago

    And now back to Puck and the BPH.

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    willie_mctell  about 1 year ago

    Smite the owl.

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    Zoomer&Yeti  about 1 year ago

    I know this is a day late, but yesterday was National Mole Day. I was never aware that moles had their own day!

    https://www.gocomics.Com/day-by-dave/2023/10/23

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    Kitty Katz  about 1 year ago

    Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

    At the Artisans’ Studio

    Wicket: Looks like your tapestry is coming along nicely. What is this gemstone with the crack in it for?

    Adobe Style: That is actually your descendant. He is a real miscreant.

    Wicket: I have heard about him from our time traveling friends. This is one time they told about it.

    Beatrixia: Yes. He decided not to join the Temple Owls. He didn’t like basketball, so he took to a life of crime. His latest misdeed was thwarted by Thimblefist, your descendant.

    Iron Glove: That’s my boy!

    Wicket: It looks like there might be more to play out before this tapestry is done.

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    thunderbattle777  about 1 year ago

    Thimblefiiiiiiiiiist!

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    Fennec! at the Disco  about 1 year ago

    Ok, who had Thimblefist?

    We have a winnah!!

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    Zoomer&Yeti  about 1 year ago

    I am suddenly hearing Michael Buffer:

    “L-L-L-L-Lets get ready to THIMBLE! "

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    turner7811 Premium Member about 1 year ago

    Good girl, Bea! Save your friend!!

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    asrialfeeple  about 1 year ago
    THIMBLEFIST TO THE RESCUE!!!!
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    pchemcat  about 1 year ago

    Now that’s heroic! I was wrong, it wasn’t Baba Mouse to the rescue.

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    Aladar30 Premium Member about 1 year ago

    YEEESS!!!

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    azkfwecho Premium Member about 1 year ago

    OT-Re: Georgia

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    Lady Bri  about 1 year ago

    I wonder if the Man will still be included in the comic . . .

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    James Noury Premium Member about 1 year ago

    I actually have trouble figuring out what is going on.

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    metagalaxy1970  about 1 year ago

    THIMBLE FIST!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    erinurse2000  about 1 year ago

    OMG!! The blurry BEEF on the rolling can! Georgia, you’re a genius!

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    Gloria Fleming  about 1 year ago

    O.T. – Baseball – the phillies LOST!!!!!!!!

    In Philadelphia!!!!!!HALLALEUJAH!!PRAISE Cat!!

    As a fan of the NY Mets (who didn’t come close to making the playoffs), having the braves and phillies lose is EXTREMELY SATISFYING!!! Yes, I’m a nasty, spiteful and vengeful SHREW when it comes to my teams enemies.

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    GaryCooper  about 1 year ago

    But if the owl can’t catch moles and mice and such, what will it eat? Are you going to give it some tofu?

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    gary.eddings4157 Premium Member about 1 year ago

    Great work Thimblefist!

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