Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for October 16, 2024

The aliens are there to use the bathroom. They’re about to have a vowel movement…

Umm, WHY does Ora Zella want to open the door? Maybe instead of concentrating on the U symbol, we should make sure that she DOESN’T open the door!

It’s time to clean the carpet

It’s time to sparkle bright

It’s time to save the Earth World

From the bad A.I. tonight

Iggy is on the case!

When it comes to organizing anything, even encoded symbols, Iggy is your ̶m̶a̶n̶ cat.

It’s a vowel? I don’t buy it.

Iggy always looked at things a bit differently.

McColl and the rest of you guys who can read parts of these messages must be geniuses. I used to do cryptography and ciphers when I was a kid, but I didn’t even attempt these.

Will some Orbster who indexes BCN please find the strip(s) of Burt in his control room with his multiple screens? In particular, the one showing Our IX Lives?

The handsome lad’s on the path!

Geeky little cats to the rescue!

Beatrix’ time as an intern was well spent. She learned about charts.

OZ, on the other hand, has not learned about doom.

Why are they here?

Answer: To clean carpets and there is no carpet filthier than in a house filled with cats (and other assorted animals). Theirs is the Holy Grail of dirty carpets.

What do they want?

Answer: A clean carpet is a sign of godliness. They are trying to achieve a higher state of being.

When are they leaving?

Answer: (When the author darn well pleases for them to leave.) The fans clamored for more Roomba stories, and they are getting what they want. When the surlier fans start complaining about the unrelenting vacuum-related humor, then they leave with a veritable treasure trove of cat fur and the gratitude of every Roomba-loving fan out there.

If it’s a simple translation code, then assuming english as the base language, the most common symbol would be an E. any a symbol on it’s own will be either an I or an A. Three characters ending in the E symbol is most likely THEFrom there you can start to fill in blanks and make sense of the code.

Roombas in the night, rudely advancing

Closer in the night

What were the chances Ora’d let them in

Before the night was through?

Something in her soul found them exciting

Something in her mind thought “dynamiting”

Something in her heart

Told her to let them through

All throughout that night, kits work together

Trying with their might, Iggy’s so clever

Hope all turns out right

With roombas in the night

/Charles Singleton, Bert Kaempfert, Eddie Snyder /Strangers In The Night

Yes it is, Iggy! Good job!

Iggy, that looks like a straight face on a card or an upside down T with dots.

Are OZ’s eyes always that green?

English huh? I would have guessed Roombas spoke Java, lucky break for the pink house dwellers. Iggy makes me think… Seems like there is more going there than meets the casual glance.

Don’t opens the door? But that steenky disky robot is already opens door and them steenky green disky flying robots from outer space already inside the building.

Why is they here? Obveeously they here to serve man, cat, and raccoons too. If only they would serves them steenky mice too but you knows them steenky mice is the first to leaves a steenky sinking ship and them steenky cowards is already runs away and nowhere to be seen.

What use if it a vowel or a consonant when you is not knows aliens language? How’d you even knows if theirs language is has vowels? How you knows if it gots alphabets or it phonetic or sometheeng completely different altogethers?

That is so OZ!

Iggy to the rescue!?! If he can translate, they can communicate. Go Iggy!

Our IX Lives has been mentioned a few times. Wouldn’t it be funny if after the roombas are banished back to … wherever … and the “adults” snap out of their trances, completely unaware of what happened, that we see them all watching an Our IX Lives storyline about aliens? And the adults thinking it is too unbelievable of a story (even for a soap opera). And the kits just thinking …

Someone better find something for OraZ to do before she decides to join the roombas!

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Maat-Tilda: I found a tapestry depicting a story lost in futurity.

Adobe Style: It appears to be a large group of vacuums in a Big Pink House.

Sophititi: In fact, it seems to be the house where many of our descendants live.

Tillie: I think it’s time for a visit to Beatrixia’s library.

At the Pretty Good Library

Tillie: So this is the tapestry. These emeralds seem to represent vacuums, like the ones our descendants use.

Bea: There may be some scrolls about what went on then. Here is one from Ora Zella:

All of a sudden it seemed like the grownups wanted to make cleaning the carpets the top priority. Except for Lupin.

Bea: Iggy writes about their strange script that he worked to decode.

Adobe: We may want to call in our coding expert, Violet-Ifa.

Soph: Good idea.

Violet-Ifa: Yes, a very good idea.

Tillie: How did you get here so fast?

All the Royal Procurers: We’ll never tell!

A chart! And Iggy, I love U!

Swoon Besides looking like a vampire, Iggy sings haunting show tunes AND can do cryptography. Could I be more in love?

They must answer those 5 questions . . .

THREE questions.

3 questions!

With Iggy, who sees thing others miss, and Beatrix the kitten who loves books, they will decode this…just like an instructional manual!

I love Bea’s chart. “When are they leaving” cracked me up. And Iggy, I could not love you more.

I am loving this more and more. It’s not as worrying as Sophie’s adventure this summer.

Ora Zella is going to open the door anyway, calling it now.

Where’s Elvis in all of this?

Roombas. Roombas. Roombas, they are everywhere.


Roombas. Roombas. Roombas noisily fill the air.


Louder. Louder. Louder is their blasting blare


and there’s no safety in the night.

Roombas. Roombas, light seen three miles away.


Five. six. seven beyond that they say.


Roombas. Roombas multiplying more each day


and there’s no safety in the night.

Roombas. Roombas don’t try to seek them out.


Roombas. Roombas. Roombas flying all about.


Grab. Grab. Grab their rollers and wring them out.


’cause there’s no safety in the night.

Roombas. Roombas their good is only bad.


Flirting. Flirting. Flirting in the air above.


Lupin. Lupin. Lupin says no, but you know Ora Zella.


and there’s no safety in the night.

Roombas. Roombas don’t you know the strain?


Roombas. Roombas. Please, please, please refrain


and listen [whir, whir] there they go again. Roombas. Roombas


and there’s no safety in the night.


[Gun shots]

Set to the poem Frogs, a poem by Red Skelton, read by Clem Kadiddlehopper. Recited to the cadence of Boots, a famous poem by Rudyard Kipling]

Iggy the Wise.

Maybe Ora Zella just wants a free RIDE! Yippee!

Iggy’s such a clever boy. Love him so much.

Ora Zella, NO!

It is a vowel, but their differently configured speech system allows them to say peanut butter cups without moving their lips.

Maybe I missed a post, but seems like a long time since we’ve heard from @TampaFanatic1, like before Milton. I know things are bad and they might be busy with cleanup, but I hope they’re okay.

Play the five tones.

A Vowel? Try your luck on the wheel of misfortune, Iggy!

Paws away from the door, Ora! There are thousands of Killer Roombas out there!

Of course Iggy is figuring out the language. He is so curious.

GoComics post a list of pumpkin related strips today, got to the Best Of menu at the top and select Comic Lists. It includes the BCN strip that was dedicated to Robin.

Iggy is a codebreaker. New challenges reveal new skills.

Iggy is a savant. Give him Linear B after this is over. I know, Linear B has been cracked.

Code breaker!

Open the door, Ora Zella! Open the door!

OT Global Cat Day

Iggy and his patterns to the rescue!

Love the rice colander helmet and the mask…it never gets old.