Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for June 21, 2020

Some say birds are just dinosaurs.

Chickens ARE dinosaurs! :)

I’m glad to be living at a time when the mammoth chicken nuggets are NOT living wild and free!

I want some free range nuggets.

(cue very loud SQUEE noise)

My favorite strip, redone! I have been waiting for this! :D

The artist’s rendering was done by our own Sophie.

Lupin knows that as long as they have been frozen, it doesn’t matter how old they are! It says “frozen” right on the box, so it’s all good! (Now, remaining frozen the whole time is also kind of important, but Lupin probably doesn’t know that.)

Defrosted from the ice after 50 million years…

I’m a bit surprised that Elvis didn’t poof when corrected, especially when Pucky’s correct (millions of years, not centuries.) (Hmmm – frozen for millions of years? Maybe preserved in amber, although The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms pulled it off pretty well.)

https://youtu.be/e6vNdjrJVRc

And they are surrounded by broccoli trees!

Hey family, Kitty Kat mentioned Skykey yesterday in a post and it brought back such wonderful memories. I’m wondering if anyone has heard anything from anyone about Shaunnmunn??? I miss her so very much and hope that she is doing well and can come back to us soon. :( :( :(

Nuggets of information, frozen in time.

I love the Timelessly Tasty on the box & OT: I dyed my hair a lovely shade of mint green. sometime you’ve just got to do something silly. Happy Father’s Day to all the Fathers here!! And to those of us who are missing our Fathers today, I hope your memories will bring you comfort, laughter & joy.

Excellent! From the life-cycle of cardboard we move on to palæontology.

But in the Cretaceous–Palæogene (K–Pg) extinction event, the giant chicken nuggets were doomed.

Speaking of timeless things, Happy Solstice and Annular Solar eclipse, happy summer (or winter, Robin.)

Dinosaurs. I’ll bet they tasted just like chicken!

It is 12:46am and I swear I smell chicken nuggets. Yuck.

This is one of my favourite BCN strips. I love how Sophie painted the trees, because they look to me like broccoli.♥

Did you know that McNuggets officially come in four standard shapes: the ball, the bell, the bone, and the boot? Or that the bone is sometimes known in Canada as the bowtie?

(That’s it, this lockdown has gone on long enough!)

Reach for it, Elvis!

Hey waitaminite. Today’s a Sunday. What, no Sunday Funday today?

I spotted the tiny Sophie signature with paw print on the dinosaur painting!

As an animal lover I eat neither chicken nor dinosaurs, but the cats being natural carnivores must have meat.

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads, stepdads, and surrogate dads out there.

Off Topic:

Over a year ago, I tooled around with an idea for a story. I posted several short story ideas for you all to read and you were very kind and very positive in your response. Since then, I have written, re-written, re-re-written, had a first continuity edit done by an Editor in England, re-written some more and am approaching a time for what I hope will be a final edit before I try to do something with this. This is no longer a short story, it is a novella, on the cusp of being a novel in length.

I am still in the market for an illustrator, for some drawings to help set some of the scenes, but my wife Marie said that is not important right now. She read the first chapter just yesterday and said she liked it.

With that in mind, I have posted the full Chapter 1 of Giblet & Belle – The Case Of The Missing Ring:

https://gibletbelle.weebly.com/story.html

Please read it if you like and I would be grateful for your thoughts and feelings.

I want a Lumpysaurus.

By the way, if it wasn’t for Chicken Nuggets, my son Mac would have starved. It was one of the few things he would eat without a fuss. Food texture was, and still is, very important for him.

Children have very well developed (almost overpowering) sense of taste and smell. I wonder if that is the reason for their avoidance of strong flavored foods like broccoli and asparagus?

Go ahead, Lupin. You eat one first.

Before all the lumpysauruses are consumed, scientists are attempting to obtain DNA samples in order to sequence the genetic code and potentially bring back the extinct giant chicken nuggets. Based on the actions in the last panel, they’d better work fast.

Lupin – “Nom, nom, nom.”

Elvis with a chart!!!! OMG. Come to think about it those nuggets probably have nearly the same amount of dinasour in them as they do chicken. A fave strip for sure

♪"Oh give me a home, where lumpysauruses roam

and the broccoli trees grow so high" ♫

I understand that chickens taste just like dinosaur!

Dinosaurs still live! Birds are the last of them. If you’ve ever seen a Harpy Eagle or Jabiru Stork up close, you see it immediately.

Do know how these are made? A chicken and a dinosaur fight until you get battered chicken.

The People should be paying attention…. If cats are dubious about something claimed to be “chicken”, it’s probably for a good reason.

More cat science. I’ve learned so much this week.

Today is World Giraffe Day. (Whorled Giraffes are extinct, if they ever existed. We will not talk much about Whirled Giraffes. Whirled giraffes get motion sickness, and when a motion sick giraffe horks, you better not be downrange, unless it’s a loooong way downrange. ’Nuff said."

Giraffes are very odd animals, root and twig, and living evidence that the universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. It took years to figure out how their circulation system kept their brains supplied with oxygen. I wonder if something similar was present in dinosaurs with long necks.

Next time you have a pain in the neck, be glad you aren’t a giraffe. Think of the osteopath’s bill!

Their patchwork markings look like a clown suit, but they look so stately when they run (it’s the lack of apparent motion of the neck). Then you get a look at their face. Anyone who can look at a face like that and not laugh needs help. Just the visual memory makes me chuckle. It reminds me of a friendly, wizened old lady with enormous eyelashes and a marvelous sense of humor. I once had a giraffe in a zoo pluck the hat off my head, then toss it back. Any threatened species that can joke with a human has my, admittedly amused, respect.

In the US, it is also Father’s Day. Those of you who had good fathers, tell them so. They won’t believe you, but that’s an indication that they were.

I don’t know if y’all know that the Yellow Fuzzy Blanket is for sale on Zazzle!!! 3 different sizes to choose from. https://www.zazzle.com/the_yellow_fuzzy_blanket-256704653487864753

Trixie Update.

Oh my, the great feral predator….squeaks. Trixie has decided that the kitchen is the place for full contact. She will sometimes tolerate being petted out in the great room, but the kitchen is now the in place for getting handsy.

I am no longer allowed into the kitchen without paying a skritchies toll. As I walk in she appears from nowhere, in front of me, blocking my path. If I fail to bend over to pay homage, she…squeaks. It is a pathetic little “meew”. A tiny, short sound that encompasses all the woes of the kitty world. Dismay. Disappointment. Starvation level hunger. Abandonment issues.

And we’re not talking about a little “pet pet walk away” toll. It has to be a full on, both hands, fingernails flying, eyes rolling, tongue flailing deep tissue massage from jowls to rump. Or, a full brushing with one of those pin-cushion brushes. Mom used one for spanking. I still have the pinhole scar pattern on one cheek from an accidental reversal, but that is a story for another day. Maybe. Back, sides, jowls and belly. No drive-by brushing allowed. But you still can’t pick her up. Go figure.

But that isn’t the BIG NEWS. Trixie now comes up and sits on the foot of the bed in the AM, grooming madly, waiting for the Num Num Giver to wake up. Make a move towards her and fooosh, she’s off the bed.

This AM Trixie allowed Lisa to get her a few pets and…gasp….a little kiss on the head. But then, fellow cat aficionados, Lisa bent over and looked her in the eyes up close….and Trixie sniffed nose. FIRST TIME EVER!!!!

Resuming regular programing now.

No Father’s Day strip for the man?

Mmm, I love me some dino-nuggets.

Given that birds are descended from dinosaurs, chicken nuggets shaped like dinosaurs seems quite natural.

Well, chickens are, technically, dinosaurs.

Perhaps, unfreeze them, and bring them back to LIFE! … Create a Park of sorts! … And, like hungry children … Nature finds a WAY!!

I don’t remember chicken nuggets coming in any shape but round or oval when I was a kid. And personally they were perfectly fine (now chicken fingers on the other hand I grew out of by the time I was ten because they were like 10% chicken and 90% batter that’s like a half an inch thick now but was about a third of an inch thick back then). Now chicken nuggets come in all kinds of shapes. Still prefer the round or oval shape.

We don’t have the Demon Duck of Doom any more. (Nor the tree-dwelling crocodiles.)

https://exemplore.com/cryptids/Bullockornis-Planei-The-Demon-Duck-of-Doom

http://www.eartharchives.org/articles/australia-s-demon-duck-of-doom/

But we do have cassowaries.

No thank you. No chicken protein meat pucks for me.

A tough old cowboy once counseled his grandson that if he wanted to live a long life, the secret was to sprinkle a little gunpowder on his oatmeal every morning.

The grandson did this religiously and he lived to the age of 93. When he died, he left 14 children, 28 grandchildren, 35 great-grandchildren and a fifteen-foot hole in the wall of the crematorium.

idk

SUNDAY FUNDAY

wait no FRIDAY FUNDAY

today is friday

I love the way the boys interpret things

You know, chickens are in fact, actual real-life dinosaurs. These are dinosaur shaped and made out of dinosaurs!

DINOSAUR WRAR