Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for July 24, 2021

I do believe Great Boot is enjoying this!

He has a picture in an attic somewhere, but because he never does anything worse than mildly annoying people, it remains cheerfully chaotic and in great condition to this day.

Goldie looks like she’s thinking, seeing a mystery to solve.

Jules likes popcorn…..and refuses to give his birthday.

Oo! I had the wrong cat! It’s Burt – Goldie’s in the green outfit.

I spy Agatha loosening the jar lid! And somebug is warming up those wings getting ready to take flight.

BRRRRRZZZZZTTTTTT!

HEEEHEEEEHEEE!

It seems like the rescue may not be needed, but better safe than sorry. I can’t wait to see what Monday brings.

Awww … the Great Boot lives up to his name … speaking of which, I LOVE ‘Compass the Wise’!

You could say something’s ‘bugging’ Burt here…

Burt is either trying to figure out how the heck Jules has lived so long, or he’s not pleased that Jules is sitting in the middle of the bowl of popcorn. Jules has never had the best manners….

Agatha’s using her playing card to climb to the jar lid it looks like

I must say this has been the best Jules story for me.

While I’m glad to see that Jules is being set free, I’m appalled at the lack of logic being demonstrated. Spies frequently use neutral territory, and visiting other people’s grandparents is not incompatible with espionage.

Freedom for Jules! Yay! However, how old is he? Did he actually fly in WWI as his flying goggles and helmet would indicate? Great arc, not that Agatha is about to spring the July Bug, what’s next? We still have a week left in July for more of Jules!

Uh-oh, there’s a bug in the popcorn!♥

Didn’t I postulate that Jules was immortal? I don’t want to toot my own horn, but, toot…toot…toot!

Bea’s reporter instincts kick in.

Where did Tommy go?

Oh, I’ve been thinking ‘bout Jules’ misfortune

And I’ve decided that Mag’s really not to blame

For a bug that’s caught inside a jar is just her game

And the way we join together

Is the music to the story of our lives

We’ve been harmonizing for awhile, I realize

Listen to the lid slowly turning

Lettin’ ol’ Jules get away

Agatha is golden, we are learning

And from her daring Jules may fly another day

(J Hayward / The Story in Your Eyes / Moody Blues)

Aaron Neville (and The Main Ingredient) from 1991: Everybody Plays the Fool

Okay, you travel afar

Then find yourself in a jar

Cryin’ and cryin’

You say you’re no longer flyin’

Well, before you do anything rash, dig this

…….

Everyone gets caught like Jules sometime

There’s no exception to the rule

Listen, kitties, it may be factual, may be cruel

I ain’t lyin’, everyone gets caught like Jules

Flying free is not an easy thing to do

And there’s no guarantee that your freedom

Will stay with you!

…….

Oh-oh-oh, flying high we cannot see

Where the boundaries just might be

Raccoons and opossums have their land

And neutral territory is at hand, but

Everyone gets caught like Jules sometime

There’s no exception to the rule

Listen, kitties, it may be factual, may be cruel

I ain’t lyin’, everyone gets caught like Jules

Might there not be a more plausible explanation?

He’s immortal? The devil you say!

I probably missed earlier discussions but what is that dark blue, rectangular thing Mouse is carrying?

Well, as I believe I heard in some other spy show somewhere:: Jules are forever.

Since I’m sure he is not the only June Bug, is there a “Family Jules” out there somewhere?

Okay , now I’ll go with my all-time favorite DP song:

Can you remember, remember my name?

As I glide through your life.

A thousand backyards I have known.

And cold, cold spirits of ice

All my life

I am the echo of your past!

I am returning, the echo of a point in time.

And distant faces shine

A thousand Robber Mice I have known.

And laughing as the spirits appear.

All your life.

Shadows of another day.

And if you see me gliding on the wind

You’ve got to understand

I must remain . . . Golden Mouse!

Ian Gillan / Ritchie Blackmore / Roger Glover – Perfect Strangers – Deep Purple

I suppose his getting July mixed up with June was enough to make him basically immortal.

The bug is free the bug is free!!!!!

Jules must be a trickster god like Coyote.

I get the impression Jules is based on British actor Terry-Thomas in “Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines”!

And I may as well go for the Deep Purple Hat Trick (yes, I am also a hockey fan)

Nobody gonna clip my wings,

Or keep me locked up in a jar.

Nobody gonna clip my wings,

Or not allow me to fly far.

Ooh I’m a Buzzing Machine.

I’ve got everything.

Like an exo-skeleton, six small legs, and everything.

I love it and I need it, I feel it.

Yeah, it’s a wild hurricane.

Alright, hold tight

I’m a SKY-WAY STAR!

Blackmore / Gillan / Glover / Jon Lord / Ian Paice – Highway Star

Of course, if he were the devil, “NO!” is exactly what he would say!

OT

That is the most long-lived insect I’ve seen.

I’d use the old ’ fly in my soup ’ joke, but wrong bug – and wrong food! … :)

However, it COULD be that Jules is a ’ Timekeeper ’ of sorts! … Eh? … :)

Some great fang displays today.

Beatrix has a tough question. What a reporter.

Burt looks displeased in the last panel.

How old is Jules, anyway?

OT: Update me

The Golden Mouse is in league with Jules.

Compass the Wise is a great name.

The bugs birthday is probably July 19 200 b.c