Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for May 11, 2023

Lupin is lost at sea and Puck is sinking fast!

Puck’s line about packing peanuts increaasing their volume to fill whatever space is a corollary to “junk multiplies to fill all available space”.

OT: we have an intruder. Last night we heard loud meowing, which we thought was coming from the TV, but no cats in Firefly Lane. On investigation, we found a small cat with a giant tail in our apartment building, meowing loudly. As it was 10:30 PM at night, we brought her in. The current resident, Missy, is very unimpressed and is circling outside the door. When we got Missy from the RSPCA, we were told she didn’t want to live with other cats. This is clearly true.

We’ve put up notices on social media, and a couple of posters out. We’ll see how it goes.

Confuse them! Buy Wotsits! (Or Cheetos if American.)

Pucky has been absorbed into the peanut collective. Lupin is bodysurfing the peanuts. What more could you ask for. There are even TOEBEANS!

At this point a broom is useless. You need a backhoe!

Get a shop vac to get the packing tribbles.

As Puck sank, beneath the sea of packing peanuts, he began to sing- My Meow Will Go On…

Enlightenment through packing peanuts.

But the toilet is doomed.

The “young and vibrant” Lupin looks so happy here

I’ve posted this before, but I think it bears repeating.

趙州和尚、因僧問、狗子還有佛性也無。州云、無。

A monk asked Zhaozhou Congshen, “Has a dog Buddha-nature or not?” Zhaozhou answered, “Wú”

無 Means “Without, not “: It is pronounced “wu” in modern Mandarin, but the experts say that in Zhaozhou’s time it was pronounced “mew”. The meaning is obvious. When a dog attains enlightenment, it becomes a cat.

Forget the broom, lady. You’re going to need a dump truck.

Puck has become the void.

♬Ride, ride, ride the wild packing peanuts

Gotta take that one last ride♬

No, Puck is being carried away. Keep him away from boxes or he will end up part of the next delivery of packing peanuts. That’s how packing peanuts work in this universe, right?

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Iggy Shipwright: Ziggy! Hey, everyone! I’d like you to meet my cousin, Ziggy Starcross.

Beatrixia: Nice to see you, Ziggy. I’ve been looking forward to meeting you.

Ziggy: Likewise. I’ve heard so much about the champion climber and librarian extraordinaire.

Lupinium: Now I would like to introduce the entertainment portion of the luncheon. First up, the Advanced Tumblers.

All: Yay!

Lupinium: And now Ora Z and I will do our Synchronized Thwump routine.

All: Even more Yay!

Lupinium: And now Arachna, Petros Parkour, and the Red Planet Spiders have a special surprise.

Arachna: Back in the day, my spider friends and I had a rock band, with Ziggy and a few other cats included. We have regrouped for a special surprise. Hit it!

David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust

Ziggy dreamt of playing guitar

Jamming Pete and Ari

And the Red Planet Gang

He played the Lute and Lyre

But he wanted to play guitar

His dream went unfulfilled, however

Since no one had invented one yet!

…….

Now Ziggy could really sing

And play many instruments using string

From Japan and Afar

His music made us smile,

But we knew all the while

He wanted to play guitar!

…….

So now all of us spiders

Have gotten together and reunited

To greet our great friend

With a special surprise!

…….

Iggy, Iron Glove, and Wally

Have joined up with the master luthiers

Mandy and Lynn!

To bring you

A guitar!

Ziggy: Aw, thanks guys! I don’t know what to say.

Iggy: Just enjoy it.

Ziggy: Well, the first thing I’m gonna do is learn how to play it. And then have a concert with Ari and the gang. How about it, guys?

The Trouble with Tribbles?

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The Woman and Man are going to need a plumber if Elvis flushes that toilet.

Oh! The Woman was reading the pamphlet that came with her new shipment yesterday! It was for the baby seat! You can see the same design on yesterday’s bit of paper and today’s box!

I love Pucky’s comment, “I am part of the infinite…”

I usually feel that way after the third Martini. Just sayin…

OMC “I am part of the infinate” …LOVE these guys!!!

What’s Lupin doing in that pile of packing peanuts?

.

The backstroke, of course!

Am I in the only family that calls those things packaroni?

GHOST FARTS we used to call them…

And here we goes with infinity again.

Well Elvis, little green peanut creatures that mysteriously multiply multiple times eh. You know what that means don’t cha. Smells like something from outer space do it not.

And Lupin’s gone surfin’,

Surfin’ BPH!

I’ve always loved I am part of the infinite

Wise men say

Only fools rush in

But I can’t help feeling mega-bonkers gloom

Shall they stay?

Would it be a sin

Since there are peanuts now filling all the rooms?

Like hot lava flows

Surely wild and free

Darling, so they grow

With Puck, infinitely

Take a broom

Rent a backhoe, too

For I can’t help feeling they’ll soon reach the moon

- George Weiss / Hugo Peretti / Luigi Creatore – Can’t Help Falling in Love – Elvis

In panel 4, is the woman pregnant AGAIN????

As Puckie floats on the peanuts, a part of the infinite. I love Puck.

“Broom”? The poor woman needs one of those municipal-size street-cleaning vacuums!

You are gonna need more than a broom, Woman. It’s a really big mess.

Brooms create static electricity which makes them difficult to corral. A shop vac works best.

♪"Let’s go surfin’ now

every kitty’s learning how

come on surf the peanuts with meeeee."♫

Wait, is she already pregnant with the new Baby (AKA the future Girl) and the Baby is about to become the Toddler (AKA the future Boy)? Or is this just a little bit after the Baby was born?

Puck just adrift in a sea of packing peanuts, elvis hoarding them and lupin just having a plesdant swim. All great images.

Pucky is so zen.