Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for February 21, 2024

Goldie: Undercover Pirate Eye. Arr!But Burt needn’t worry about the seaworthiness of their ship. For these be magical waters they’re sailing on! No water will penetrate such a fine vessel.

Definitely not seaworthy. Maybe they can commandeer a better ship later.

What’d be a good name for such a pirate ship? SeaCat’s Revenge? Crooked Cheshire? Dead Man’s Hamper?

Meowarrrrr! How comes the only real one eyed pirate cat not gots eye patch?

So glad to see that Pengo is getting in on the pirate action.

I see Pippa Fox is stowed below decks.

Even Pengo is in the boat. Cool!

No! Not evil Pengo!

Not seaworthy AND a poor choice for a gasoline can!

I wonder if these pirates will run into (or have a run-in with) Captain Nimble?

Has Burt lost his mind? Or did Elvis gain control of the teleprompter

So Goldie is planning treachery. She is going to turn King’s evidence, and denounce their piratical activities to the Governor in Kingston. The the Royal Navy will round them up, and they will face the gallows.

Unless, of course, they take a few tips from Morgan, and show a letter of marque.

Countless? My estimate is 24.

That’s some BIG laundry basket!

I like the Penguin

♫ Ride captain ride upon your mystery ship

…

We’re calling everyone to ride along

To another shore

Where we can laugh our lives away

And be free once more

With that crew, they’ll surely have a mewtiny

In the event of an emergency, Pengo will serve as a flotation device

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

At the Cosmo Nursery

Trevor-Hotep: Hey, guys! I have a whole cargo of vegetables for you!

Freshwater Cat: Great! We’ll get them on board before we continue our fishing trip.

Saltwater Cat: We met the Hippy Hippos on the way here. Apparently they have quite a story to tell.

Iggy: Yeah, they aren’t the grumpy hippos I’ve met in my travels.

Trev: That’s true. When my great-grandfather Cosmo wanted to start a garden, he met with quite a bit of resistance. Apparently the hippos were very resistant to change. I remember him telling the story:

Cosmo: This looks like a good place for a garden. Access to the river, fairly temperate climate, and a bit of magic.

Gray Cloud Hippo: Oh great, there goes the neighborhood! Go on, we don’t want your flowers and veggies!

Cosmo: Just let me plant a few things here. Come harvest, I’ll make you all a great banquet. If you don’t like it, I’ll leave.

Trevor: And that was the start of it. Of course, they didn’t become friends overnight, but who doesn’t like fresh food and good company?

Fresh: I’ll be sure to give some of our cargo to Star Shine and his friends. Will you be coming to the Palace soon?

Trevor: Of course. The lasagna harvest will be coming soon.

Ah, pirates will certainly make an interesting investigation for Goldie.

There are times I wish I could still play like these kids. Build a fort under a table and get lost in a world of make-believe. Sadly, attempts to return to such a wonderful, free state of mind would probably get one admitted to the Betty Ford Center for drug and alcohol abuse.

Burt may see holes in the ship but, as a sailor, I see g u n ports

In this episode of The Plundering Pirate Affair, Agent Goldie, the Cat from U.N.C.L.E., has snuck aboard the T.H.R.U.S.H vessel P.S. Ovaltine in an effort to thwart the evil plans of Madame Olga Peterbaldavitch and her henchman Captain, LaPerm the Curly. The evil duo are attempting to sneak their vessel into Kitchen Harbor, in an effort to scale the Yellow Cliffs of Counter, sneak into the treasury and appropriate all of the cookies they can carry back to their ship.

Agent Goldie, the ever vigilante Cat from U.N.C.L.E., in an attempt to stop this dastardly deed, plans to alert the local authority, thereby catching Madame Oleg and LaPerm with their hands in the cookie jar. Agent Goldie risks whiskers and tail as she poses as a member of the pirate crew under the command of Captain, LaPerm.

Agent Goldie’s dilemma, aside from being discovered and being required to walk the plank, (water ewwwww) is to decide how to alert the local authority in such a way as to not be discovered as a Cat from U.N.C.L.E. before the appointed moment.

How will Agent Goldie keep her indemnity secret?

How will Agent Goldie alert the authority without causing too much damage in Kitchen Harbor?

Will Puck keep his big yap shut and not give Agent Goldie away to the agents of T.H.R.U.S.H.?

Tune in tomorrow for another exciting episode of The Plundering Pirate Affair.

OT: Sensitive potty-mouth bot strikes again.

15 Cats, in a catnip patch! Meyow yow yow and a bottle of milk!

Winken, Blinken and Nod one night

Sailed off in a wooden shoe.

Sailed on a river of crystal light

Into a sea of dew.

“Where are you going and what do you wish?”

The old moon asked the three.

“We have come to fish for the silver fish

that live in this beautiful sea!

Nets of silver and gold have we!"

Said Winken, Blinken and Nod.

Goldie must’ve raided The Woman’s jewelry box for that fashionably pirate golden earring.

Burt’s chyrons are, as always, spot-on!

“We don’t see anything wrong with this ship,” say the designers of the Vasa.

Well, she WOULD be at least, if the kids hadn’t reused her cover for their sail. :P

The visuals and dialogue are precious. Sweet, sweet sweet!

Cool, an undercover pirate! They will never see her coming.

Goldie is working undercover for Elvis and the Woman. She’ll warn them if the kids and kits move into dangerous pirate territory.

Not holes, portholes.

This is so crazy. I used to drag my little “pirate” grandson around the kitchen in our laundry basket. A broom and dish towel were the flag. Great minds, I guess, Georgia!

I must go down to the carpets again, to the homely rug and lie,

And all I ask is a cardboard box, and a window to sail her by;

And OZ’s kick and Goldie’s song, and the white Lupin flake-ing,

And epic floof on Siamese face, and another knick-knack breaking.

(With sincerest apologies to John Masefield, and whatever tall ship he’s on.)

They need lots of scuppers…

Got out of the house on a boat, to exotic islands

Sailing a reach before a carpeted sea

She was making for adventure on the outside

And the downhill run to the red sofa you see

Off the wind on this heading lies the kitchen

We got eight cat feet at the waterline

Nicely making way

In a noisy stop under the window we added Elvis

But on a midnight watch we realized

Why twice he ran away

I spy with my little eye…

The Girl’s toy fox! (Twice!)

It’s just too cute!

Adorable =)