“Newt was still in control of his own mind enough to do the proper translation. When most people said ’I’m psychic, you see’, they meant ‘I have an overactive but unoriginal imagination/wear black nail varnish/talk to my budgie’.”
(from Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. This quote is on page 215 of my fancy illustrated edition, in honor of the TV miniseries, and 229 of my straightforward mass market paperback, the 2006 reprint with the black cover, both of which I have on hand – your pagination may vary. My third copy, a different edition entirely, is either at my mom’s house or has been borrowed by my brother.)
I’m not wasting my time on this, and I’m sure Elvis isn’t, either. Undoubtedly he is working on a fact-based, hard-hitting report on the evil collusion between shelves and drawers.
The gang reminds me of my Grandmother’s house back in the ’70s. She had a sewing circle that she belonged to from her church. They used to watch “Days of our Lives”, “Search for Tomorrow” and “The Edge of Night” on one of those giant old RCA console TVs that could play ’78 records and occasionally would need a vacuum tube which my Dad would get from the local Eckerd Drugs or Radio Shack and install himself. Those retired ladies did not get much knitting done and spent a lot of time yelling at the bad guys on the tube.
Speaking of soaps in the ’70s: by this time Dark Shadows was off the air except in reruns if you were lucky but I remember watching it with my youngest and oldest sister after kindergarten and first grade as my Mom was still working at the time and my older teenage sis was appointed babysitter and thus the defacto ruler of the TV so no cartoons on WTOG for us if Barnabus and the Crew was on! Now that show scared the daylights out of me. I miss those days as well as my grand ma and her wonderful house…….
Agnes-Ata: Oh, I see a few of our friends are here.
Iron-Glove: Adobe-Style and I are working with Sophititi and Maat-Tilda on a project for our queens.
Agnes-Ata: Welcome. I’m doing a bit of investigation here. Have any of you heard of a cat called Dr. Sneaky-Glove.
Iron-Glove: What? He had the nerve to steal my family’s good name?
Agnes-Ata: You’ve heard of him?
Maat-Tilda: Oh yes. My siblings and I went to school with him. He was Stealth-Mitt then.
Agnes-Ata: What was he like then?
Maat-Tilda: For one thing, he stole my senior project. I had made mittens for my brother and sister and me. He stole them, and as a result none of us got any pie for graduation.
Agnes-Ata: That’s awful. We have to find him and make him pay.
Enter Thomios
Thomios: Here’s one thing I can make right. I’ve made my famous Kibble Pie.
For everyone not completely sold on Paisley’s psychic claims – don’t forget Sybill Trelawney, a psychic who seldom got it right, but when she did, it was a ZINGER! (Paisley makes me think of a Cyndi Lauper/Sybill Trelawney cross.)
This morning I received a call, actually two calls, a text and an email, that my cat Mcintosh (AKA Mac) was found. Which I found strange since I was looking at him. I also later got a call from the place that had the found cat and told them it wasn’t my cat since my cat was home safe and sound. I didn’t ask them if they were sure they had the right number or not. I called my vet and they have a scanner, though I am not sure I want to put Mac through the trauma of going to the vet just to have his chip scanned. They are both due for shots in a couple of months or so and I might just wait until then. I am not real worried about him getting out and escaping, he doesn’t show much interest in going out and now with the weather being colder I am not opening the slider as much, which is the most likely way he would escape. I am more concerned for the cat that was actually lost if the number was really correct from its scan.
National Pets for Vets Day: I don’t think there is anyone in this bunch who doesn’t know how therapeutic pets can be. If you can, visit a shelter and donate the adoption fee for a vet. There are few better ways of saying, “Thank you for your service.”
Celebration of the Mind Day: If you haven’t lost it, celebrate it!
Reptile Awareness Day: With the elections coming up, how can anyone not be aware of reptiles …
Global Dignity Day: Personified by the Paragon of Dignity, Elvis.
International Day of the Nacho: “Nacho, nacho man! Nacho, nacho man! I want to eat nachos!”
It ain’t easy being a cat. He gets to stay another day and night. His bladder is not completely draining. Apparently when the bladder has been extended during a blockage some cats have a muscle problem in that the body reduces or stops squeezing to get the urine out.
The major issue here is that the kidney and liver values remain elevated because the bladder is retaining too much urine.
Vet is searching for the correct medication to stimulate that specific muscle group. Not a common occurrence so none of the close in vets have any on the shelf. She hopes to find a supply today so they can get him started ASAP. But he will have to stay overnight again and get retested once the meds kick in.
exaggeration narration: Goldie, what did I miss?Puck, Beatrix, the mice, and Burt: SILENCE, THOU SHALT NOT INTRUDE UPON THIS SACRED TASK BESTOWED UPON US.
maggijoseph Premium Member over 3 years ago
Ah ha! The plot thickens!
deadheadzan over 3 years ago
Bandit can dig it!
LuvyaBebe05 over 3 years ago
Is Bandit a manx?
kangtourcat over 3 years ago
OT:When I’m 64 and Shadow update.
Strob Premium Member over 3 years ago
Quadruple SHHH!!!!
Strob Premium Member over 3 years ago
I’m sensing that the next commercial break will be an invitation by Dionne “Warlock” to dial up the “Psychic Friends Network” for $3.99 a minute.
Le'letha Premium Member over 3 years ago
“Newt was still in control of his own mind enough to do the proper translation. When most people said ’I’m psychic, you see’, they meant ‘I have an overactive but unoriginal imagination/wear black nail varnish/talk to my budgie’.”
(from Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. This quote is on page 215 of my fancy illustrated edition, in honor of the TV miniseries, and 229 of my straightforward mass market paperback, the 2006 reprint with the black cover, both of which I have on hand – your pagination may vary. My third copy, a different edition entirely, is either at my mom’s house or has been borrowed by my brother.)
I Mad Am I over 3 years ago
Quote from Our IX Lives Christmas Special (Dec. 15, 2016)
“That’s Paisley, Captain Nibble’s Psychic Twin Sister!”
Captain Nibble is Princess’s wife. Princess and Angora are sisters. Did I mention you need a chart for these things?
lopaka over 3 years ago
Restless spirits…..ahh, just in time for Halloween.
Robin Harwood over 3 years ago
I’m not wasting my time on this, and I’m sure Elvis isn’t, either. Undoubtedly he is working on a fact-based, hard-hitting report on the evil collusion between shelves and drawers.
DorseyBelle over 3 years ago
Get out of the way, Robin, yer blocking the telly! (Elbow, elbow). Psychic Toe Beans!!!
WelshRat Premium Member over 3 years ago
And yet she didn’t foresee her own catnapping?
Santana over 3 years ago
Imagine spirits blue, I do
I think about them day and night, it’s only right
To think about the ghosts I feel with second sight
So happy whenever
If I should conjure them up, invest my time
They’ll say they’re restless, but feelin’ fine
Imagine how the spirit world could be so sublime
So happy forever
I can see me doin’ the mystic things I do
For all my life
Since I’m psychic, baby, the Tarot’ll be true
For all my life
Me and brews and brews and me
No matter how I burn the sage, it had to be
The only time for me is deja vu, again for me
So happy whatever
Ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-baBa-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba
So, how is the nether? (ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba)
(Alan Gordon / Garry Bonner – Happy Together)
TampaFanatic1 over 3 years ago
The gang reminds me of my Grandmother’s house back in the ’70s. She had a sewing circle that she belonged to from her church. They used to watch “Days of our Lives”, “Search for Tomorrow” and “The Edge of Night” on one of those giant old RCA console TVs that could play ’78 records and occasionally would need a vacuum tube which my Dad would get from the local Eckerd Drugs or Radio Shack and install himself. Those retired ladies did not get much knitting done and spent a lot of time yelling at the bad guys on the tube.
Speaking of soaps in the ’70s: by this time Dark Shadows was off the air except in reruns if you were lucky but I remember watching it with my youngest and oldest sister after kindergarten and first grade as my Mom was still working at the time and my older teenage sis was appointed babysitter and thus the defacto ruler of the TV so no cartoons on WTOG for us if Barnabus and the Crew was on! Now that show scared the daylights out of me. I miss those days as well as my grand ma and her wonderful house…….
I AM CARTOON LADY! over 3 years ago
Every cat gives this show, 4 Shhhhh’s!
cat19632001 over 3 years ago
What else would an abandoned asylum be but evil and haunted?
cat19632001 over 3 years ago
Paisley isn’t just very psychic. She’s VERY PSYCHIC.
arolarson Premium Member over 3 years ago
OT Yen
Zev over 3 years ago
I can’t stand the suspense; I’m switching over to Birds Of Our Lives.
Trespassers W over 3 years ago
“Focus, Paisley!”
diskus Premium Member over 3 years ago
Well im lost, but thats not new so its ok. If you all enjoy im good with it. Im just watching our main characters reactions to watching the show.
Kitty Katz over 3 years ago
Meanwhile, Back on the Nile
Agnes-Ata: Oh, I see a few of our friends are here.
Iron-Glove: Adobe-Style and I are working with Sophititi and Maat-Tilda on a project for our queens.
Agnes-Ata: Welcome. I’m doing a bit of investigation here. Have any of you heard of a cat called Dr. Sneaky-Glove.
Iron-Glove: What? He had the nerve to steal my family’s good name?
Agnes-Ata: You’ve heard of him?
Maat-Tilda: Oh yes. My siblings and I went to school with him. He was Stealth-Mitt then.
Agnes-Ata: What was he like then?
Maat-Tilda: For one thing, he stole my senior project. I had made mittens for my brother and sister and me. He stole them, and as a result none of us got any pie for graduation.
Agnes-Ata: That’s awful. We have to find him and make him pay.
Enter Thomios
Thomios: Here’s one thing I can make right. I’ve made my famous Kibble Pie.
Iron Glove: Great! Let’s eat Thomios!
Adobe Style: Now watch your punctuation.
Iron Glove: Oops, I mean Let’s Eat, Thomios!
Ignatz Premium Member over 3 years ago
“Oh, Rad!” “Yes, Janet?”
So that is Burt. And now I can tell him and Goldie apart, since they’re in the same panel.
just another cat lover over 3 years ago
LOOOOORRRRREEEEE!!!
T_Lexi over 3 years ago
For everyone not completely sold on Paisley’s psychic claims – don’t forget Sybill Trelawney, a psychic who seldom got it right, but when she did, it was a ZINGER! (Paisley makes me think of a Cyndi Lauper/Sybill Trelawney cross.)
a nerdy trans girl over 3 years ago
havnt been on this strip in a while! lets see what comics are here after all this time!
serenasakitty over 3 years ago
My psychic ability tells me that………um I can’t tell anyone. It would give away all the plot lines.
christineracine77 over 3 years ago
Are the restless spirits also fragrant? Inquiring minds want to know.
Susanna Premium Member over 3 years ago
This morning I received a call, actually two calls, a text and an email, that my cat Mcintosh (AKA Mac) was found. Which I found strange since I was looking at him. I also later got a call from the place that had the found cat and told them it wasn’t my cat since my cat was home safe and sound. I didn’t ask them if they were sure they had the right number or not. I called my vet and they have a scanner, though I am not sure I want to put Mac through the trauma of going to the vet just to have his chip scanned. They are both due for shots in a couple of months or so and I might just wait until then. I am not real worried about him getting out and escaping, he doesn’t show much interest in going out and now with the weather being colder I am not opening the slider as much, which is the most likely way he would escape. I am more concerned for the cat that was actually lost if the number was really correct from its scan.
scaeva Premium Member over 3 years ago
Today is:
National Pets for Vets Day: I don’t think there is anyone in this bunch who doesn’t know how therapeutic pets can be. If you can, visit a shelter and donate the adoption fee for a vet. There are few better ways of saying, “Thank you for your service.”
Celebration of the Mind Day: If you haven’t lost it, celebrate it!
Reptile Awareness Day: With the elections coming up, how can anyone not be aware of reptiles …
Global Dignity Day: Personified by the Paragon of Dignity, Elvis.
International Day of the Nacho: “Nacho, nacho man! Nacho, nacho man! I want to eat nachos!”
Babbling Day: I’ll stop if you pass the nachos …
scaeva Premium Member over 3 years ago
Yesterday was:
International Sloth Day: In an abundance of slothfulness, I neglected to mention this yesterday. Let’s hear it for sloths: two, three, or five toed …
nerd warning over 3 years ago
Hey, it’s Paisley!Are she and Bandit going get help from the ghosts to escape?
Andylit Premium Member over 3 years ago
Clark update:
It ain’t easy being a cat. He gets to stay another day and night. His bladder is not completely draining. Apparently when the bladder has been extended during a blockage some cats have a muscle problem in that the body reduces or stops squeezing to get the urine out.
The major issue here is that the kidney and liver values remain elevated because the bladder is retaining too much urine.
Vet is searching for the correct medication to stimulate that specific muscle group. Not a common occurrence so none of the close in vets have any on the shelf. She hopes to find a supply today so they can get him started ASAP. But he will have to stay overnight again and get retested once the meds kick in.
Deep sigh.
willie_mctell over 3 years ago
To heck with the audience. Story now.
Natarose over 3 years ago
um, okay. The black cat is who? Is he the one that decided to become a cop? I am a little confused.
over 3 years ago
Glad to see Paisley again!
Mr. Reader over 3 years ago
exaggeration narration: Goldie, what did I miss?Puck, Beatrix, the mice, and Burt: SILENCE, THOU SHALT NOT INTRUDE UPON THIS SACRED TASK BESTOWED UPON US.
Mr. Reader over 3 years ago
Also, i’m wondering, does bandit have all four legs or just 3, because I think it would be really cool if he had only 3 like puck, I’m just thinking.
Catmom over 3 years ago
Wasn’t Robin supposed to be making some kind of announcement, did I miss it or was he just pranking us?
Ahsum over 3 years ago
OT: Stories