Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for December 04, 2024

Good Kitty!

Elf on the Shelf. The perfect toy to train your children to live in a surveillance state.

um, it’s a cat⠄⠄⠄

it woulda just knocked it off the shelf

The cat with a hat..

That had to be done.

I read an account by a Dad who came across his two small sons tussling with one another over a favorite toy. He simply pointed to the Elf sitting on the mantelpiece, silently observing the action. The boys… realizing they had been “caught” in a naughty/not-nice moment… burst into tears!

the elf on the shelf, another scam to sell stuff

A Christmas tradition going all the way back to 2005.

In my family it goes back much sooner than that. When I first started dating my wife back in 1965, I gave her a Christmas present. My mom thought it would be “cute” to attach an elf to the box.

Her mother liked the elf and it became a part of her house’s Christmas decoration every year since. The elf did not move every day, but it did move every year. Now that my wife’s parents have passed away, we inherited the elf and keep up with the tradition.

The ‘new’ “Elf, half on the shelf”

Snitch still looks okay with everything.

Trust a cat to find the simplest solution to the problem.

I love this one!

Good kitty.

That kitty could get a job with local mob, to be in charge of any inside informants

Thank Heavens. At least the cat has sense enough to get rid of the cheesy, money grab attraction.

Guess who’s going on Santa’s naughty list?

That elf had it coming.

Great elf awareness.

Elf-ish has left the building.

That one was too easy, go for the golden snitch that one is a real challenge.

too soon?

Who’s a good girl?

Looks like he caught a rat.

Goood Kitty!

Cue the Twilight Zone theme music……….

It’s OK, he was a nannycam.