Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for October 30, 2024

It’s not a vac attack? Well, that sucks…

Well, they say they’re here to help us!

(October is almost over, so they are almost certainly here to help us, but still . . .)

Yay! The complete code!

Local cat decodes alien language. Proves, we hope, that they are not killer Roombas. And he did it all with a cute lil wave. Iggy the Ingenious.

What is OK?

Love the “save this key!” Participation points for the newspaper readers!

GASP! Are we going to use it tomorrow or Thursday??? I do hope so! And Iggy is being an amazing linguist/etymologist!!

Of course. Today, when I can stay up until late enough, there are no toebeans to EEE at :-(

Looks quite a bit like Tifinagh. Must be here for the Berber rugs. ;)

Iggy’s cards say it’s going to be ok!

They’re telling us to vote for Harold Saxon.

Let’s see Who gets that references.

They want us to have REALLY REALLY clean carpets!

IGGY RULES!!!!!

“In some ways it’s very similar To our own.” It’s like being in algebra all over again. Ai-hi-yi.

OT: Close to Roswell

Yes, the ancient astronauts have been here for a while.

Help us do what? Maybe they’re looking for homes of their own like Tortimer.

Iggy confirms they’re here to clean the carpets?

I saw a teacher parent session once when the teachers were reminding parents how difficult it can be to learn how to read. They basically made up letters as shown in this strip along with pictures of, say cats and dogs, using the symbols. Then put up sentences, still using the new symbols and all tne parents were dumbfounded at the difficulty.

Well my Roomba today announced that she needed her sensors cleaned. The curse of working in a house foe somebody who has long hair.

Here to help? So help is the new serve now? To serve earthling. It still a cookbook ya knows.

How them steenky extraterrestrial robots learning Englees so queeckly when me no get after many years on this planet?

Here to helps? DON’T YOU BELIEFS IT!

I tbought Iggy had more symbols than we had previously seen!

Excellent job, you excellent young cat!

OK!

As one of the possessed cats sang at the start of this story arc, “It’s time to save the Earth world.”

BCN have some strips about writing systems, languages, Old English, epic fantasy series, it looks like Georgia have things in common with me.

The cards he’s holding say OK.

Cleanliness is next to Godliness.

I notice that Beatrix has changed from calling them killer Roombas to “ancient alien Roombas.”

If Goldie does not bring Iggy on as her code breaker she is making a big mistake.

IT’S A COOKBOOK!

Oops, wrong story ;-))

Lol!

I just re-read the comic and noticed a message to us readers written in modern text/English at the bottom of panel 3!

Is Georgia gonna give us homework??

The Scottish Play, Sorta

Macbeth: Cry Havoc! Let slip the dogs of war!

Marc Antony: Mac, that’s my line.

Macbeth: It is?

Marc: Yep. In the play Julius Caesar.

Mac: Oh well. This above all: To thine own self be true.

Hamlet: That’s my play. Polonius said that.

Mac: Once more into the breach, dear friends.

Henry: That’s in my play, Henry V.

Mac: Very well. How about we go and have a wee dram of the good stuff.

All: You’re on!

Stay tuned in folks, the bottom of the middle panel has a “save this key” notation!

Hooray!

So they say.

“To Serve Man” is a cookbook.

It’s All Hallows’ Eve Eve!

I am loving this!

They’re saying, “Garfield for President!” :-)

Wonderful! That is usually the case. Outside of Our IX Lives, I can’t recall Georgia introducing a true villain. Even the moles were redeemed.

OT: More house issues

I took a screen shot for future reference..

So we’re back to the “they’re just here to do spring cleaning but in fall” theory, then.

Ooooo!! Quite excited for future translation shenanigans!!

Remember Cat’s & Kiddies, be sure to drink your Ovaltine.

“Sparkle Bright it’s time to save the Earth”

I got it. It says, "He who controls the spice, controls the universe.”

Wait—wrong translation.

Now you can go back to each previous strip with the symbols and see what they were saying. I won’t spoil it for you!

Help you do what exactly?

So october 28 – panel 2 – We want to help. We come in peace…. used the code here.

Oh, what a relief! It’s pretty cool that the Roombas have their own unique language.

OK – OK !! … It’s great to have this decoder key! … BUT! – What’s with THIS…?

’ Be Sure To Drink Your OVALTINE ’ … ???!!! … :)

Um…where’s “CH”?

Also, OT: Ceiling Cat give me patience, & I want it NOW!!!

Iggy is a savant.

OT: update on Operation Kitten Trap

Interesting that there are compound letters.

Definitely Iggy!! There’s the famous Nazca Roomba, the Uffington “White Roomba”, the Cerne Abbas Giant Roomba, of course “Roomba Henge”, as well as the “Roomba of Rhodes”, “Machu-roomba”, and “Temple of the Roomba” near the sphinx in Egypt, and the Norse Saga “Roombawulf”, “The 12 Roombas of Hercules”, the list goes on. (See: Eric Von Suction, “Roombas of the Gods”)

Looks like Egyptian code.

So proud of you, Iggy! :-)

We should have know they weren’t really evil. The only villain in the BCN world is Wicket.

What’s the difference between “X” and “Ex” ?

OT Tampa

Update on Erma

OT: Jora

In El Reno, Oklahoma, it’s 9:15 pm and raining like @#*1!!! Foxy is so far under my seat I can’t reach her. We’re going to call it a night and find a motel. Love and deep gratitude to everyone!!!!

Lady Bri- Hope yall are getting some good sleep!

Moving in 2 ish week – prayers and purr appreciated ❤️

I was sent an attachment but when I clicked on it all it told me was I needed to buy Microsoft 365 or get a free trial. After trying some workarounds I thought I finally had a way to save the attachment but all I had was gibberish that looked like the Roomba language.

there was hope. I had clicked while using the mail software in my computer. What I hadn’t tried was going to the web site for the email address. Downloading was an option and now I have the attachment saved.

Head boops, soft purrs, and many purrayers, and prayers are being sent out for all Orbsters who are in need of them for any reason.