Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for January 21, 2024

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    uncle snipe  10 months ago

    Such a nice little catalog of “things we’re not allowed to touch”. This of course forgets the First Law of Cats. If I see it, I touch it! Which Brings us to The Second Law of Cats. If I touch it, it’s MINE!

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    Ricky Bennett  10 months ago

    Looks like the cats are really taking a shine to the light…

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    Brian  Premium Member 10 months ago

    Elvis seems a tad less impressed than the others.

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    Le'letha Premium Member 10 months ago

    Very diplomatic, Pucky. “quite the find” is so neutral you could paint things beige with it.

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    WelshRat Premium Member 10 months ago

    With so many pointies? Is this the lightshade of Damocles?

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    ChristineFoxdale  10 months ago

    It’s a dust collector !

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    quonk999  10 months ago

    I dust my living room with a leaf blower. Needless to say, I don’t have many breakable tchotchkes.

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    Lady Bri  10 months ago

    OT: Quick update on sweet Trouble-cake ❤❤❤

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    tkstuber  10 months ago

    Based on panel 8 it looks like Georgia’s up and running again.

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    Robin Harwood  10 months ago

    Using “antique” as a verb is hideous enough, but buying and installing that monstrosity is completely beyond the pale. To have that thing above would terrify me. Even if (per impossibile) it wasn’t cursed, I would still feel inescapably doomed.

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    FreyjaRN Premium Member 10 months ago

    Thar’s an, er, interesting light.

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    thelsrc  10 months ago

    The woman went antiquing and she came back with quite the find sounds like my wife. Our hometown is a community called Snohomish and the main industry of the old downtown area is antique shops. On weekends the old downtown is very crowded. We have a fair number of “quite the finds” from my wifes’s expeditions there.

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    DorseyBelle  10 months ago

    I’m with Elvis. Um, a light that can poke your eye out? On the other hand, I am warming to the mid-century modern, Sputnik-inspired light fixture…(scrolls eBay jealously)

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    JLChi  10 months ago

    What to say? I’m glad it’s in their house and not mine?

    If asked, I guess I could say, “Wow, that’s some light! I’ve never seen anything like it before.” And hope they think it’s a compliment.

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    Ahsum  10 months ago

    Sunday Funday

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    ekwirt  10 months ago

    Looks like Georgia might be a fan of all the HGTV remodeling shows where the designers love to find “unique” light fixtures in antique shops. It’s not nearly as bad as some of the lights I’ve seen on those shows.

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    in-dubio-pro-rainbow  10 months ago

    Some more antiques to serve the kitties’ antics? – how deLIGHTful!

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    Gent  10 months ago

    It the second weirdest light me has ever seen.

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    Gent  10 months ago

    It look like one of em battle UFOs of them steenky outer space aliens with defensive spikes all over em.

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    Gent  10 months ago

    And careful with that thing, whatever it be. It could impales someone for godssakes.

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    David 42  10 months ago

    It also gets great TV reception

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    David 42  10 months ago

    but the light secretly dreams of being used as a prop on a Sci-Fi show

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    More_Cats_Than_Sense  10 months ago

    Sorry Lupin, it does appear to be functional!

    (If it doesn’t knock out all the lights and power when switched on!)

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    I AM CARTOON LADY!  10 months ago

    LOOK OUT! IT’S AN URCHIN LIGHT! THE SPIKES WILL GET US! WE ARE SO, DOOOOMED! Sigh! Relax, Elvis!

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    Calvinist1966  10 months ago

    “It certainly isn’t functional!”

    It turned out to be functional and functioning.

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    arolarson Premium Member 10 months ago

    Bought in an antique shop it was probably expensive. If found for $2 in a thrift shop it would be hailed as a fabulous find. In any case, make sure it’s firmly attached so it doesn’t fall and impale some unsuspecting cat! Remember, there are two active cats for whom your ceiling is a floor!

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    cb8ty  10 months ago

    The whole crew’s collective “ohhhhhh” seems to be an effort of diplomacy.

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    Nuliajuk  10 months ago

    Looks lethal. I’d be afraid to stand underneath it.

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    Tigrisan Premium Member 10 months ago

    I’m sorry, dear, sweet, wonderful artist Georgia, but I am so not into MCM and that light cover is…Nope. so nope.

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    cat19632001  10 months ago

    Is it my imagination or is Ora Zella already plotting something?

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    R2-Wolf  10 months ago

    It’s a Mid-Century Modern light, inspired by the first satellite, Russia’s Sputnik. These are popular and highly sought after.

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    diskus Premium Member 10 months ago

    Looks like a weapon

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    Daltongang Premium Member 10 months ago

    What is it you ask. Oh that’s simple, it’s UGLY. That’s all that needs to be said.

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    jazzinjeep Premium Member 10 months ago

    Dear Georgia, while everyone else is dissing your find, I love anything MCM, I think it’s neato! But, um, maybe make sure it’s well mounted?

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    DeerOrchid Premium Member 10 months ago

    As winter decor, it’s snowballs and icicles. As summer decor, it’s dandelion seed heads and stems.

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    ladykat  10 months ago

    It’s not the prettiest of light fixtures; however, if the woman likes it, so be it.

    OFF TOPIC:

    Buddha (grandson’s pet snake, for those who don’t know) is definitely shedding. This means he will be very sulky for a while. I’ll just leave him alone for the time being.

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    rs0204 Premium Member 10 months ago

    I would love to see a picture of the real lamp on Instagram, Georgia. It looks very 60’s modern.

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    Grace Premium Member 10 months ago

    Theme from “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” runs through my head.

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    mepowell  10 months ago

    I wish this weren’t Sunday. I’d love to follow Lupin and Ora Z attempts to reach it.

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    MRBLUESKY529  10 months ago

    I think I saw something like that on Star Trek.

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    Kitty Katz  10 months ago

    Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

    Puckmosis: Is Iggy out fishing with Fresh and Salty Water Cats?

    Beatrixia: They came back to leave some fish off at the Royal Kitchen, then they are going to the Bazaar to sell fish and make trades.

    Puckmosis: I wonder if they’ll meet the Royal Procurers at the Bazaar.

    Bea: Maybe. They had gone out to Punn State to pick up cheese. I think they might be back by now.

    Puck: That’s right. They won a year’s supply of cheese last June 2nd.

    Sound of Giggling in the Background

    Puck: Hello, ladies. How was your trip?

    Agnes-Ata: It was great. After we won cows, we almost have more cheese than we know what to do with.

    Violet-Ifa: A slight exaggeration. There is always a demand for good cheese.

    Puck: Did you happen to see Iggy and the Water Cat brothers?

    Ta-Natash: Yes. Fresh and Salty sold their catch, and bought some fishing nets. Iggy bought a contraption of which we know not the use.

    Bea: He did say he wanted to get a lantern. He has a friend who keeps dropping them.

    Puck: I think I met him. He sings opera or something.

    Alice-Ata: That’s him. And the Lantern of the Opera.

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    scyphi26  10 months ago

    Must be circa 1960s—it’s very much got that 60s futurism vibe to it.

    And I can also see why it fell out of style. Not only must it be a pain to clean and maintain given all the pointy bits, it hurts my eyes looking at all the pointy bits, and it looks like if it ever fell it’d either skewer itself through the floor or shatter into a thousand pointy pieces that would be hazardous for anyone to be around.

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    Catmom  10 months ago

    O.T.

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    kappy.mrnustik Premium Member 10 months ago

    At first, I thought it was for appetizers and there was food stuck on the pointy bits. The cats would have LOVED that!

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    mpolo11 Premium Member 10 months ago

    Ears back!

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    The Wolf In Your Midst  10 months ago

    I’ve played video games where you kick enemies into things that look like that lamp.

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    daleandkristen  10 months ago

    Has Georgia ever commented on ELVIS, the cat in the Second Chance Cat Mysteries? By Sofie Ryan. I’m currently reading Undercover Kitty, in which Elvis is competing in a cat show while his human companions try solving a crime(s). For once, Elvis has lots and lots of mentions. Hope he wins a ribbon (currently 2nd place in Household Pet cat egory).

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    metagalaxy1970  10 months ago

    I’m with Elvis. What???

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    Red Bird  10 months ago

    I’m surprised the Woman still has the cuckoo clock. It looks in good condition.

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    scaeva Premium Member 10 months ago

    Cue Leslie Fish’s “Surprise!”

    “Beep-Beep. Boop-Boop. Hello there! (Эй жопу!)

    Sputnik sails, giggling, through the skies (Эй! Эй! Эй!)

    Red flags, red faces, jump in the race, as

    The space age begins with a surprise. (Сюрприз!)"

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    4892624  10 months ago

    Gotta love mid 20th century ‘modern’

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    GSD Mom Premium Member 10 months ago

    Oh look – Sputnik!

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    BarbaraKrooss  10 months ago

    The lamp’s general design seems to suggest that the spikes should be used to toast marshmallows.

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    Aspen_Bell  10 months ago

    Holy Palm Springs, Batman!

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    SallyLin   10 months ago

    Love the new light!

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    j_crane  10 months ago

    Oooo retro

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    FreyjaRN Premium Member 10 months ago

    Sorta OT: Denny

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    Font Lady Premium Member 10 months ago

    The oldest boy was riding his e-bike home after work Friday night at midnight. He was going around a corner when he hit some invisible ice and, of course, he fell and landed on his hip. Yesterday afternoon he finally told me about it so I had to take him to the ER to make sure he didn’t have any fractures. Good news is he didn’t break anything except the headlight on his bike.

    I have EARNED my grey hair.

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    emiesty Premium Member 10 months ago

    OT grocery shopping

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    emiesty Premium Member 10 months ago

    Today I went hunting for kale chips without success. There were cassava, plantain, various fruits (including chili tamarind, yuck!) but no kale. I bought some fresh kale in reparation. On the bright side, I found Polish paczki (pronounced pooch=key). According to the package, you might call it pampushky, kraplen, gogosi, fastnacht, or malasada.

    In Germany, it’s a Berliner. A myth is that John F. Kennedy’s famous proclamation, “Ich bin ein Berliner” meant that he called himself a jelly doughnut. Wrong ending. Here’s the quote: "All free men, wherever they live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words, “Ich bin ein Berliner.”

    In any case, I bought some raspberry ones and stowed them in the freezer at once so that I don’t eat them before Cheesefare Sunday (Orthodox Catholic) or Shrove Tuesday (Western).

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    Katzen1415  10 months ago

    It looks like either a murder weapon or some bizarre scientific device.

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    kittylover.truitt  10 months ago

    A light from a fantasy ship ? Oh my goodness Elvis expressions !

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    Taracinablue  10 months ago

    Elvis is so confused & angry his eyebrows are sticking right off his face =P

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    catmom1360  10 months ago

    I don’t like that light.

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