Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for December 05, 2019

Cats do not have “fantasies”, they just see the world differently.

Whaat?

Aww, tail poofs and Pucky toe beans in panel three!

Woman! You’re doing it wrong! It’s a “NO, NO Squirt bottle,” not a “NO, NO, NO Squirt bottle!” They’ll never learn if you’re not consistent!

Is what we have here a failure to communicate due to faulty equipment, or is Puck padding his resume? Are they playing a Clue? Why did Goldie write MASH at the top of her paper? I think I also see Sophie and Burt written on her legal pad.

It looks like they’re playing Mash. I didn’t know much about this game, but it seems to work almost like the old Paper Fortune Telling Cube.https://mashplus.com/how-to-play-mash/

Puck and Goldie are so adorable together, they’re like best friends having a sleep over … All they need is some junk food and a stack Fancy Feline Fashion magazines!

I vaguely remember playing MASH as a kid – or should I say, being roped into playing MASH as a kid, which is why I don’t remember the rules, just its existence. It’s something between a fortune-telling game and an invent-your-own-biography game. You’d only play it with someone you liked, so Puck and Goldie are getting along famously!

I love the tin-can telephone!

The looks of delight and the body language of Puck and Goldie are a treat!

Elvis’s and Lupin’s argument subjected to the indignity of the squirt bottle of infamy! O My Cat!

I don’t know this “Mash”, but it looks something like Roger Price’s “Mad Libs”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Libs

Either that, or those upper respiratory drugs have really kicked in!

I see “Elvis”, “Tommy”, and “Burt” on Puck’s piece of paper, as well as “Texas”, “Canada”, and “Idaho”. I can’t read the careers options.

Goldie’s paper has “Sophie”, “Agnes”, and “Burt”; “doctor”, “mayor”, and “poet”; and “Egypt”, “Maine” (possibly), and “England”.

As for the numbers, it looks like Goldie puts a strikethrough on her 7’s (does anyone else think of that as a British 7?) and Puck does not.

For a moment, I thought it might have been Action Cats https://www.actioncatsgame.com/

I surmise that one puts down words and the next person (or cat), makes up a story or scenario with those words. Am I right?

I love that game! Still play it now and then. (cheeky giggles) But Puck… I’m surprised and intrigued because didn’t you once complain, and I quote, “I’m a boy. Don’t they know I’m a boy?” :D

I see Lupin has his mask back on.

Germs can sneak under the door. Puck is doomed.

My cat loves water; spray him and he’ll say “refreshing, thanks!”

How did they get the tin under the door?

Oh no, the dreaded “No No Spray Bottle”! the boys have been so good that we haven’t seen it in quite some time.

Random food woman gave Lupin and Elvis a car wash because they were dancing the, Tango!

I had to laugh at the spray bottle. Our Molly (rip) was a counter cat. While hubs is okay with cats, he can’t stand them on the counter so he would spray her whenever he caught her there. The only thing it taught her was to not get on the counter when he was home. They’re so smart!

Even tho I have never heard of the game they are playing, the whole strip is still delightful. Puck and Goldie are so adorable playing a game through the door, so sweet. And Goldie obviously got a good nights sleep and is feeling much better.

Sweet Pucky looks like Julie Andrews is singing in his head:

♫ Getting to know you

Getting to know all about you

Getting to like you

Getting to hope you like me

Getting to know you

Mashing it my way

But nicely

You are precisely

My favorite Goldie

Getting to know you

Getting to feel free and easy

When I am with you

Getting to know what to say

Haven’t you noticed

Suddenly I’m bright (but you’re still a little wheezy)?

Because of all the beautiful and new

Things I’m learning about you

Day by day ♪

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MNANgFCYpk

Pucky toe beans!

They’re fighting because the presence of a stranger has triggered their territorial instincts and they’re redirecting the defensive reaction to each other.

I never heard of MASH, and I just learned something new.

I had forgotten all about MASH! We used to play in elementary school. I love the tin can telephone and especially the string between the panels. It’s the details that make this comic so charming.

Today’s strip demonstrates that black cats are pure-hearted.

It’s the SPRITZER! Run for a few of your lives!

Why are they fighting?? Woman can you not see Lupin’s facial mask and thus deduce his fear of catching whatever deadly disease this INTRUDER has brought in with her?

It looks as if the string for the string telephone is not going under the door, but breaking the third wall to pass through our world and go between rooms in their’s.

Although it’s not going to work with the string slack like that.

I’ve never heard of the MASH game, but when I was a child, we made phones out of tin cans and string. Oh, lordie, I’m old.

I have never heard of this game. I found this online version of the game they are playing. https://www.homes.com/blog/2016/02/mash-one-favorite-childhood-games/

Goldie and Puck will be BFFs, I know it.

Ringo Starr: The No-No Song

Lupin and Elvis got into a fight,

They snarled because they did not understand,

Then I got out the water bottle, oh-ho!

And they separated posthaste on command!

…….

I told them “No, No, No, No”

No more fighting, No More!

I’m tired of tripping over you on the floor!

Stop it, oh please,

Look at Puck and Goldie,

Playing nice on either side of the door!

I’m amazed how many people have never heard of MASH. It’s very novel for me to be one of the people who get a cultural reference. Normally I’m the baffled one while everyone else is reminiscing about something that was seemingly everywhere while I remained oblivious.

This is the start of a wonderful friendship.

Another sneezing kitty :-)

https://www.gocomics.com/how-to-cat/2019/12/5

Is Puck really Mom Cat?

Meanwhile, by Puck’s paper, it looks like Goldie will live in a shack in Canada and have 7 kittens with Elvis! Can’t read the “occupation” section.

Did you notice that Puck’s little “OMC!” comes from both him (other side of the door) and Goldie’s tin can?

I get happy just seeing Puck’s joyous enthusiasm.

Good – Goldie’s back in her warm jammies.

Puck’s little foot swaying in the back is giving me life.♥

What the heck are those two playing? Whatever it is, looks like their already fast friends.

Thanks Georgia Dunn! Laughter is good medicine; I needed a day-brightener today, and your strip (and all the lovely fun comments) make me feel so much better!

my tommybaum at work . . .

https://www.instagram.com/p/B5q-f37BKpfSCztp_cVOM7sMHcYcN11O1Ihr940/?hl=en

I can imagine us all playing this game at Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon.

I don’t know this game. That folded paper finger thing, yeah. But that was sixty years ago.On another topic, I am finally getting another kitty. Yea! A foster that isn’t getting along with her existing cats. Had cats & dogs all my life but move in the last 2 years from n. California to n. Jersey. (grew up in s. Jersey) I was temporarily kitty-less these last two years and I missed them. I needed to get permission here in my apt building and a note for support animal from VA. So now ordering all new “gear”. Thank Cat for foster parents.

Linda

proofread Linda, duh. Believe it or not, I CAN spell & speak correctly. blame it on autocorrect. grin BTW, I didn’t leave any cats/pets behind in the move. They had passed away & I held off on getting more till now. I would never do that. Shipped my dog & cat back from Spain when my tour was up & flew another cat from NH to California when I moved out there. That was a trip… literally!

Oh, see Georgia’s tweet below, the tin can phone is apparently a gift from the raccoons!

I’ve been mentioning Big Bad John so often lately, I decided to make him my Christmas avatar. He was such a handsome boy!

Gotta say, I’ve never heard of MASH, nor of any game quite like it!

I remember that game!

I love how Puck’s voice is coming both from under the door and the tin can phone

OT <— Della

And now we know where the tin can telephone came from https://www.instagram.com/p/B5s9Y2IpoFI/

This is one of my all-time favorites! “Ok! Stop scribbling…NOW” Glorious! I love the word ‘scribbling’.

unless burt is a girl name, no offense, then I would consider him gay.