I have to admit that Tommy’s Woman, wearing a brown shirt, (though without pendant) looks a lot like the woman who picked up the box yesterday. But if picking up boxes is a regular occurrence at the bookstore, I can’t believe that Tommy’s Woman is the only buyer of books! So I must conclude that Tommy’s Woman works for UPS! And she is a pollinator of boxes!
Joe Tabby: “This is the city: Whatchamacallit, Maine. I work here. I’m a cat cop.”
8:08 a.m. I was working the day shift out of the Corrugated Paper Division when the call came in. A local cat reported seeing someone wearing a Dinty Moore Beef Stew can sniffing around their boxes on the front porch. I grabbed my partner Tommy and went to the scene.
8:19 a.m. My partner and I arrived and began questioning the cat who made the call.
“I’m Joe Tabby and this is my partner Tommy. You made the call?”
“Yes, I’m Sophie, the artist cat in residence. I work with cardboard boxes.”
“I understand, just the facts ma’am.”
“Well I use cardboard boxes for my art, and a new crop just arrive this morning when I noticed a strange individual sniffing around our boxes..”
“I understand, go on…”
“Well, we have had several boxes disappear recently so I though I would keep an eye out for the new crop to arrive when I saw them.”
The interview was interrupted when Tommy saw someone lurking in the shadows. They took off running and my partner and I gave chase…
Tune in tomorrow for Chapter II: The Fiberboard Fatality….
It seems petty and cranky to undermine the “Nature is beautiful,” sentiment.
But, for every tidbit of proverbial wisdom, there is a proverbial counter argument.
I’m thinking of “Nature is red in tooth and claw.” Yes, I enjoy the fantasy cats and birds and mice interacting in this strip and in other anthropomorphic stories from Walt Disney to Beatrix Potter, but real cats, birds, mice can be pretty ruthless.
In the sequel to The Witches of Eastwick the witches we first knew have grown old and suffer the attendant pains that can accompany the aging of the body, not to mention looming mortality. One of them says, more or less, that they had practiced a religion of Nature worship but now that very Nature was killing them.
One comment posted under a different strip a few days ago said, in effect, “Nature kills you and then makes new things out of you.”
The Circle of Life? Yes, that can be beautiful too, in the last analysis.
Beatrix, will you please do a guest spot in my Bio course? Unfortunately all virtual these days. Topic: Box Sex, quiz Friday. Follow up? How do we tell the male boxes from the female? That part always gets me.
Sophie gets an actual signature, but Georgia just gets a chyron today. How sweet of Georgia to allow Burt to do that so she doesn’t steal Sophie’s thunder!
Ot: so to answer the questions that people asked I am going from Vancouver WA to Callarodo in a car to my cousins mamorele. She died last month she was somewhere around thirty to forty I’m not sure which. She had a lot of health issues already then had problems so she went to the hospital she was doing better and was about to be let out a few days after bit the something happened and she died the worst part is is that her husband and two boys weren’t able to see her the whole time she was in the hospital even though all of them tested negative for the virus
Hilarious. I currently have a medium-sized, cardboard box decaying in the back yard. Every time I think about finally throwing it away, I discover a cat sleeping on it or in it.
Today is a day to celebrate indecisiveness: it’s Flip-Flop Day! So whether you are flipped or flopped, try it the other way—multiple times!
Some may be confused and think this is a day for celebrating the footwear commonly called in the West, “flip-flops”—because that is what they sound like and, being mostly made of rubber, frequently do. These are derived from one of several, related, forms of traditional Japanese foot wear, “Zori” or “Warazori.” These, in turn may have developed from the “Waraji” The common footwear of the Edo Period. Among other forms are the “Hiyori geta” and “Masa geta,” (“geta” means wooden footwear, or shoe with wooden base) which have rigid soles with long wooden teeth projecting downward to the pavement. A variant is the “Taka-ashida geta,” in which the teeth are very long and thin. There is one form with a single tooth, called “Ippon geta” or “Tengu geta” (Tengu were Japanese demons, often depicted wearing these.) “Pokkuri geta” have soles about 4-6 inches thick, carved from a single block of wood with a noisemaker in a hollowed portion of the sole. When worn by maiko (geisha in training) they are called “Okobo.”
Considering the lack of secure fastening on all except waraji, perhaps “flip-FLOP!” is not inappropriate.
My house always looks like this. However since COVID-19 it has gotten out of hand so I spent a few hours breaking down boxes for recycle. The furry butts were not happy to lose the kitty castles. Not to fear though a new crop arrived to take the place of the old. People that come to visit always ask if I am moving. I just explain that the boxes are for the cats.
There are so many creative people here. I love the song lyrics, the running stories, the poetry, everything. This is a lovely place to visit and I always try to set aside an hour every night to read all the comments. A nice way to end the day! I like to read the comic in the morning then the comments at night so I get more comments. I love this place!
Colorado Expat almost 4 years ago
OH WOW!!! Sophie charts!
RAGs almost 4 years ago
What about scratching posts (or what ever they are) made of corrugated cardboard?
ctlum almost 4 years ago
Ahhhh, how appropriate! The Georgia Dunn box contains Mommy’s Special Boy!
Le'letha Premium Member almost 4 years ago
So is your chart, Sophie! Thank you for sharing your art with us!
DennisinSeattle Premium Member almost 4 years ago
I have to admit that Tommy’s Woman, wearing a brown shirt, (though without pendant) looks a lot like the woman who picked up the box yesterday. But if picking up boxes is a regular occurrence at the bookstore, I can’t believe that Tommy’s Woman is the only buyer of books! So I must conclude that Tommy’s Woman works for UPS! And she is a pollinator of boxes!
Jungle Empress almost 4 years ago
I’m so glad we have such adorably fuzzy teachers!
WelshRat Premium Member almost 4 years ago
I see Bert doesn’t dare make graphics for the Tommy segments? Sophie all the way!
Robin Harwood almost 4 years ago
A biology lesson from Tommy! As I’ve said before, this sort of science-based reporting is what I want from BCN.
Sue Ellen almost 4 years ago
Sophie, you are beautiful too!
RonaldAlbertAnsley almost 4 years ago
crazy furballs sleep everywere in house !
Sue Ellen almost 4 years ago
Little boxes in the book store
Little boxes full of kitty cats
Little boxes made of cardboard
Little boxes all the same.
cat19632001 almost 4 years ago
That box is just the right size for you to sit in, Tommy!
deadheadzan almost 4 years ago
The circle of life at it’s most magnificent!
Cassia almost 4 years ago
Get your cardboard packed up
Send it to the wi-ild
Lookin’ for the front steps
As a cat bed, it’s restyled
Yeah, cardboard go make it happen
Get in the world and pollinate
Fire all of your dust at once
To land in a cat’s space
You are smoke and lightning
Creating purring thunder
Racin’ with the wind
And your journey’s nature’s wonder
Yeah, cardboard go make a cat bed
Take the cat in a love embrace
Show all of your charms at once
And make a cat’s happy place
Like a true nature’s child
You were born, born to beguile
You can climb so high
You’ll touch the sky
Born in the wi-ild
Born to beguile
Songwriter: Mars Bonfire
Born to Be Wild – Steppenwolf
Kitty Katz almost 4 years ago
As performed by Elton John: The Circle of Life
From the day we arrive to be planted
And bloom into cardboard so strong
There’s more we can do then we thought we could do
More places to go all along!
Some say, “Stay right on the doorstep”
Some say, “Send things far and wide”
But all are agreed as they join the stampede
You should know about what’s inside
In the circle of box
It’s the harvest of cardboard
It’s the journey of life
It’s the band of hope
’Til we find our place
And become a true cat bed
In the circle, the circle of life
Markov Da Robot almost 4 years ago
I love. Lupin’s smirk in the first panel.
ladykat almost 4 years ago
Sophie’s chart is lovely, and she looks so happy in the last panel.
rs0204 Premium Member almost 4 years ago
For Robin, who just likes the facts.
Joe Tabby: “This is the city: Whatchamacallit, Maine. I work here. I’m a cat cop.”
8:08 a.m. I was working the day shift out of the Corrugated Paper Division when the call came in. A local cat reported seeing someone wearing a Dinty Moore Beef Stew can sniffing around their boxes on the front porch. I grabbed my partner Tommy and went to the scene.
8:19 a.m. My partner and I arrived and began questioning the cat who made the call.
“I’m Joe Tabby and this is my partner Tommy. You made the call?”
“Yes, I’m Sophie, the artist cat in residence. I work with cardboard boxes.”
“I understand, just the facts ma’am.”
“Well I use cardboard boxes for my art, and a new crop just arrive this morning when I noticed a strange individual sniffing around our boxes..”
“I understand, go on…”
“Well, we have had several boxes disappear recently so I though I would keep an eye out for the new crop to arrive when I saw them.”
The interview was interrupted when Tommy saw someone lurking in the shadows. They took off running and my partner and I gave chase…
Tune in tomorrow for Chapter II: The Fiberboard Fatality….
I AM CARTOON LADY! almost 4 years ago
Welcome to the News crew, Sophie! So nice not to hear you say,"Not now, Tommy!
lsnielson almost 4 years ago
Love that Sophie signed her chart.
jimmjonzz Premium Member almost 4 years ago
It seems petty and cranky to undermine the “Nature is beautiful,” sentiment.
But, for every tidbit of proverbial wisdom, there is a proverbial counter argument.
I’m thinking of “Nature is red in tooth and claw.” Yes, I enjoy the fantasy cats and birds and mice interacting in this strip and in other anthropomorphic stories from Walt Disney to Beatrix Potter, but real cats, birds, mice can be pretty ruthless.
In the sequel to The Witches of Eastwick the witches we first knew have grown old and suffer the attendant pains that can accompany the aging of the body, not to mention looming mortality. One of them says, more or less, that they had practiced a religion of Nature worship but now that very Nature was killing them.
One comment posted under a different strip a few days ago said, in effect, “Nature kills you and then makes new things out of you.”
The Circle of Life? Yes, that can be beautiful too, in the last analysis.DorseyBelle almost 4 years ago
Love the reporting from inside boxes! Tommy looks so happy in his impossibly-tiny box. Love the cat-centered explanation of cardboard box life cycle!
The Pro from Dover almost 4 years ago
Nature’s Bounty!
diskus Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Beatrix, will you please do a guest spot in my Bio course? Unfortunately all virtual these days. Topic: Box Sex, quiz Friday. Follow up? How do we tell the male boxes from the female? That part always gets me.
skipper1992 almost 4 years ago
Sophie gets an actual signature, but Georgia just gets a chyron today. How sweet of Georgia to allow Burt to do that so she doesn’t steal Sophie’s thunder!
Michael G. almost 4 years ago
The Circle Of Life!
cat19632001 almost 4 years ago
Now what is it that Tommy’s and Sophie’s Woman got from the bookstore?
thecatlady3410 almost 4 years ago
Ot: so to answer the questions that people asked I am going from Vancouver WA to Callarodo in a car to my cousins mamorele. She died last month she was somewhere around thirty to forty I’m not sure which. She had a lot of health issues already then had problems so she went to the hospital she was doing better and was about to be let out a few days after bit the something happened and she died the worst part is is that her husband and two boys weren’t able to see her the whole time she was in the hospital even though all of them tested negative for the virus
almost 4 years ago
It’s so nice seeing Tommy today!
mistercatworks almost 4 years ago
Hilarious. I currently have a medium-sized, cardboard box decaying in the back yard. Every time I think about finally throwing it away, I discover a cat sleeping on it or in it.
Kitty Katz almost 4 years ago
And from Ray Stevens: Everything is Beautiful
Everything is beautiful in its own way
Starting as a cardboard husk,
Becoming a cat bed one day
…….
Everybody’s beautiful, in their own way,
Under God’s heaven, the world’s gonna find a way
…….
Whether human or mouse, or feline we all can see
They are all beautiful, we must let our thoughts be free
Filling cardboard husks, and sending them out into the world,
Sharing all we have to give, let our joy be unfurled!
…….
Everything is beautiful in its own way
With a tiny cardboard husk,
We can spread love each day!
scaeva Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Today is a day to celebrate indecisiveness: it’s Flip-Flop Day! So whether you are flipped or flopped, try it the other way—multiple times!
Some may be confused and think this is a day for celebrating the footwear commonly called in the West, “flip-flops”—because that is what they sound like and, being mostly made of rubber, frequently do. These are derived from one of several, related, forms of traditional Japanese foot wear, “Zori” or “Warazori.” These, in turn may have developed from the “Waraji” The common footwear of the Edo Period. Among other forms are the “Hiyori geta” and “Masa geta,” (“geta” means wooden footwear, or shoe with wooden base) which have rigid soles with long wooden teeth projecting downward to the pavement. A variant is the “Taka-ashida geta,” in which the teeth are very long and thin. There is one form with a single tooth, called “Ippon geta” or “Tengu geta” (Tengu were Japanese demons, often depicted wearing these.) “Pokkuri geta” have soles about 4-6 inches thick, carved from a single block of wood with a noisemaker in a hollowed portion of the sole. When worn by maiko (geisha in training) they are called “Okobo.”
Considering the lack of secure fastening on all except waraji, perhaps “flip-FLOP!” is not inappropriate.
One Serious Cat almost 4 years ago
I love BCN charts!
Portmanteau almost 4 years ago
I cannot like this comic enough. I will never look at a cardboard box the same way again.
cat19632001 almost 4 years ago
Lovely – a happy Sophie smile!
miscreant almost 4 years ago
My house always looks like this. However since COVID-19 it has gotten out of hand so I spent a few hours breaking down boxes for recycle. The furry butts were not happy to lose the kitty castles. Not to fear though a new crop arrived to take the place of the old. People that come to visit always ask if I am moving. I just explain that the boxes are for the cats.
willie_mctell almost 4 years ago
That’s what I call a life cycle. Another triumph for cat science. They do know more than we do.
sugordon almost 4 years ago
Yes, I took a large load of boxes to the town recycle ben yesterday, but I left quite a few around for my cats too :)
azkfwecho Premium Member almost 4 years ago
There are so many creative people here. I love the song lyrics, the running stories, the poetry, everything. This is a lovely place to visit and I always try to set aside an hour every night to read all the comments. A nice way to end the day! I like to read the comic in the morning then the comments at night so I get more comments. I love this place!
Salmon✔️ over 3 years ago
you will get in trouble for painting on the wall..