Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for July 05, 2020

At last the people kittens get a chance to play with the toy tribbles and space alien baby doll.

I have never seen any of the “Rocky” movies. I don’t think they’d appeal to me. I am in all likelihood with Elvis in this matter.

I would gladly watch all the Rocky pictures all weekend if it would make the BLASTED FIREWORKS STOP. And the neverending cumbia loud enough to wake the dead AAAAARGGH. My cat is huddling terrified under the couch. Calling cops does nothing. MAKE IT STOP.

Compliments of the season to American viewers.

(And I apologise for being a bit late. I’ve only just realised that yesterday was the anniversary of your decision to cut yourselves off from the Crown. I hope you still think it was a good idea. There are an awful lot of back taxes to pay if you have changed your minds.)

Yesterday’s comments raised the awful spectre of people who don’t know “The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy”. In case there are any such pitiable creatures among us, here is the closest I can find to the original. It stars Peter Jones.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY8U3AP5bPk

This is episode 1, in which the Earth is destroyed and Arthur is tortured by the Vogons.

SUNDAY FUNDAY

Time to go play Weird Al’s “The Rye or the Kaiser(Theme from Rocky XIII)”.

Funnily enough, I’ve never actually seen a Rocky film. Never seemed like my thing.

I hope all the other Americans here had a good Fourth! It’s not even 11 in my timezone and the fireworks are still going off, and Blossom has been my brave little protector and making sure I’m not bothered by the Loud Noises, since she is not scared, nope, not at all!

Lupin looking The coolest! in panel #2

Why is 6 scare of 7? Because 7 8 (ate) 9…..ha, ha

You too can obtain success as long as you make a career of punching people in the head and likewise getting brain damage.

Purely on a lark! I decided to have a movie marathon as well! But instead of ‘Rocky’… it is Harry Potter. I needed to turn it all off and come to bed. As I type this the fireworks outside is subsiding. I has been going on STEADILY! for the past three hours! But the cats were already upset with me. The last movie on was Order of the Phoenix… where Fred and George fill the school with all sorts of fun fireworks to mess up the activity of Prof. Dolores Umbridge. I think the cats are plotting to get even!!! (Grin!)

Strange culture you Americans got. Why don’t cha call your independence day as independence day?

I just read there’s going to be a Rocky 4 director’s cut soon. I have zero feelings about that.

Tiny Elvis toe beans!

Is the artwork is signed? Is this another Sophie masterpiece or did the Boys copy a photo (that looks remarkably like a young version of the Man) for Pucky to use during his discussion of the reasons Rocky is a folk hero?

I love Elvis’s look of ennui in panel five.

Elvis, that wasn’t an actual robot, just a man with the acting skills of a robot

And here I needed a cat to explain that all to me. Thanks Puck!

i am Canadian

OY!

o-o

Thank you Elvis!

I’ve never seen even 1 Rocky movie!

I have a recurring nightmare that’s in hell, for my sins, they’ll make me watch all eight “Rocky” movies

I’ve never been a big Stallone fan: Rocky puts me to sleep, so does Rambo. I found him watchable in the Expendables. Chacun a son gout.

Or as Pogo put it, “We have met the enemy and they is us”.

I’m waiting for Rocky XXVIII where Rocky and Mr. T fight over the last pudding cup at the nursing home.

Being in Philly myself, I’ve lost interest in the Rocky franchise, until Creed.

There are a lot of things about “Rocky” that don’t bear talking about. It’s a triumph of willpower over (lack of) education and self-plagiarism.

I had plenty of fireworks going off all around last night. I knew that Sweetheart wasn’t going to be a problem, she never has, seeing Kiki just shrug them off was a big relief. She was in a cat-bun on the foot of the bed the whole time. She would look up at the widow occasionally, but that was it. :)

I’ve never seen Rocky. Can someone sum it up for me?

So Rocky is his own worst enemy who keeps coming back to torment him?

Saw the first one when it came out. Great B movie with A production values. Skipped the remainder. IRL Stallone sounds like a prison auto-didact like Damon Wayans’ character on “In Living Color.”

I’ve never seen a Rocky movie either. We’ve spent our July 4th weekend watching Hamilton. Once Friday, once yesterday, and probably again today. I cry every time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGJd8FLAqRA

i recently read a book that presented the idea that rocky is a movie that a mostly there for the purpose of creating a white supremacy ideal in white peoples and that there are other popular movies that serve the same purpose. I read this in the Book stamped by… gimme a minute here looking it up… Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi. I highly recommend reading it, it is sort of a narrative overview of how black racism came to be and how it developed and evolved over the ages.

Ms Dunn has nailed it. Or the wise kitties have. (Truthfully, I thought for a second they were talking about “Rocky And His Friends” with its tag line which is decidedly apropos these days, “He knew the job was dangerous when he took it”.)

The only one I’ve seen is 4. Not even 3, which is kind of surprising because, being a young boy for whom “The A-Team” was appointment television in 1983, I was a huge fan of Mr. T.

This is a really good description of the ‘Rocky’ series.

We don’t talk about that…every fandom has that thing.

Puck, if you stretch that any farther, it’s going to rip and snap back into your face.

Today is Bikini Day, sacred to all sun worshipers and producers of sun-block.

I went to college in southern Florida, at a place infamously known as “Sun-Tan U.” We honor students hated the nickname, but I have to admit that it fit. Every expanse of sunlit concrete (even dorm rooftops!) or grass was covered with young women in two piece bathing suits or bikinis. You would think this a kind of paradise for men in the age range of 18 to 22. Nope. Just walking past on your way to class got you a lot of dirty looks. You may think the reason for that is obvious, and today it would be, but this was back in the late ’60s, early ’70s, when attitudes were a lot different in both sexes.

The young woman I was dating at the time was a native Floridian. She explained that the sunbathers were mostly from northern states, and these young women were getting tans to show off when they went home for the holidays. She also told me that many of them were there to get their Mrs.—and if a man didn’t look well-to-do, they weren’t interested. I certainly hope that has changed, and I shudder to think of the skin cancer rates. South Florida is sub-tropical, which means that in the warmer months it’s tropical, and the sun is fierce. All freshmen were required to wear a white “beany” hat. While this was a form of mild hazing, it also had a very practical purpose: preventing sun-sickness and even sunstroke in pasty-skinned damnyankees who didn’t realize the danger. To paraphrase: Mad dogs, Englishmen, and Damnyankees go out in the noonday sun.

So if you wear a bikini, wear sunblock.

Is that supposed to be a bowl of popcorn, or has the man managed to get the potato salad away from Pucky the Grey?

I’ve never been a fan of the “Rocky” movies.

The same movie three times:

Rio Bravo

El Dorado

Rio Lobo

But I’m not complaining.

I thought in those movies it was always Rocky against a hard place.

The trick is to watch them in reverse order. Rocky gets more confident and athletic through the hours. :)

I watched “A Capitol Fourth” on PBS last night. Had the shade up on my back porch window so I could see if my mother’s avatar/messenger (a female cardinal) would watch too. (She made an appearance; it was brief, but better than nothing. If my father’s avatar/messenger showed up, I missed it.)

Not as much of an emphasis on the “patriotic” this year – more songs advocating mutual love and understanding.

As it should be, especially this year.

The only Rocky I’ve seen was a Horror Musical.

This is a revision of a post I made earlier but I made a major FUBAR and ended up trashing the whole thread.

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in BCN and I—

I took the one that was more sci-fi,

And it hasn’t made a metric bonker’s worth of difference.

I love the first three Rocky movies, the fourth was okay, but I haven’t seen the rest, and probably won’t. “Eye of the Tiger” was my theme song when recovering from a catastrophic spine injury. To strive. To do. And not to yield.

In my town they filmed part of Dukes of Hazzard, In the Heat of the Night, Vampire Diaries, Remember the Titans, and many others. Covington, GA. We have a beautiful square, and a great courthouse.

Cincinnati Ohio here. We’re famous for our chili, a sweeter chili that has cinnamon and chocolate in some recipes. (Skyline!) Our state’s flag is actually a pennant (triangular instead of square), our state candy is the Buckeye (a peanut butter and confectionery sugar concoction rolled into a ball and dipped most of the way into melted chocolate.) and we’re the only state to have a state rock song, Hang on Sloopy.

Doris Day, Nick Clooney (George’s Dad) Rosemary Clooney, (his Aunt), Pete Rose, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Wilbert and Orville Wright, and Steven Spielberg all call Cincy their birthplace. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Cincinnati)

We’re home to the world’s longest, and best, wooden roller coaster, The Beast. That’s at Kings Island.

New Richmond, Ohio was one of the most used river crossings for the Underground Railroad. Ulysses S Grant, the Union General who won the Civil War, was born nearby in Point Pleasant, Ohio.

The Cincinnati Reds are the oldest professional Baseball team. They were originally the Cincinnati Redstockings.

Jerry Springer was once Cincinnati’s Mayor. He was stupid enough to pay a prostitute with a personal check. Making him one of the most embarrassing people to have called Cincinnati home.