Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for November 12, 2020

Science demands we investigate!

Et tu, Goldie!

Goldie is obviously comfortable as a resident now. A cat worried about being tossed out wouldn’t be that mean.

Panel 1: “That’s nice.”

Panel 2: “Uh oh.”

Panel 3: “This won’t work out well.”

Panel 4: “DOOOOMED!”

There’s no good reason for me to expect a cat to know the correct meaning of “begging the question”.

Puck, the food reporter and gourmand, lovingly describes the tart that is about to be unceremoniously dumped by our intrepid investigative reporter!

Cats are drawn to experiments in gravitational physics.

The Woman went to a great deal of trouble and spent a large amount of time to make something (ostensibly to be eaten at some point) out of, as Puck points out, fragile components, and then leaves it completely unguarded and unsupervised on the counter.

Did she forget she has cats (again)? (Or children, for that matter!)

Why not just try to grow some plants in a pot inside the house (again)?

Honestly! Woman, what were you thinking?

Uh, oh! Goldie has begun her career as an investigative journalist.♥

All four cats agree: Scientific progress must go on!

Goldie. No. Don’t let the boys be a bad influence on you!

Next Question – How badly does it stain everything???

My usual prediction would be supererogatory.

Isn’t that usually Lupin’s trick?

Oh, Goldie, NO!

Well, they wanted her to investigate things.

Well, did it??

It looks a bit odd that Lupin’s speech bubble is behind the chart/drawing/photograph. Although I can’t really see how else that panel could have been drawn…

This is an unfortunate misuse of the term “begging the question”… but then, it’s coming from a cat.

This must be her first day on the job as the investicating reporter. Welcome.

Hubby made 2 pies last night for the weekend. I advised him to put them in the microwave (turned off) to cool overnight. He scoffed at my concern they were potential cat beds. Love this strip!

OT. Yen

And I just hope ya owl won’t blame Lupin for the fallen pie.

Goldie – don’t ask if it bounces. Ask “how high?”

Tiny autumn leaves – one of which Puck has already removed.

I’m seeing berry stained paw prints all over the Big Pink House in the near future. ::looks at Lupin::

Ack – naughtiness incoming!

ah of course DOSE IT BOUNCE

I think Goldie and my Cricket must be related! :-D

Don McLean: American Pie

Bye, bye this American Pie

All created, decorated by the Woman, oh my!

But curios minds, they are gonna try

To see if it will bounce or fly

To see if it will bounce or fly!

…….

Did you roll out all the dough?

And did you want to show

Your baking skills to one and all?

Now did you leave your pie on the shelf

With the cat all by themselves?

And did you know cranberries do bounce?

Now I know there is an awful fate

As Goldie goes to investigate

There is a whole lot on her plate

Until the tart fell down!

We started singing

Bye, bye this American Pie

All created, decorated by the Woman, oh my!

But curious minds, they are gonna try

To see if it will bounce or fly,

To see if it will bounce or fly!

I can just hear Georgia saying “NO, LADY!” as she dives to catch it :)

Tart stay up

Tart stay up, don’t let it drop

Stop the tart

Stop the tart, don’t let it flop

Puck, you better run & get the mop

Woman’s ticking, gonna blow her top

Stop the tart

Stop the tart, don’t let it drop

Never drop, never drop, you hafta stop

You make a grown woman cry

You make a grown woman cry

You make a grown woman cry

Spread the blame, share the shame

That’s not cool, won’t never be the same

Tart, stay up!

(Mick Jagger / Keith Richards – Start Me Up)

That brought a laugh out loud from me, Who would have thought that Miss Goldie would do such a thing?

I did not expect that from Goldie. I wonder if the pan is glass or metal?

First of all, have any of you ever know a cat to stop when you scream across the the room – “…No!…(cat’s name)…STOP!”

Second, the tart landing right side up, or upside down is directly in proportion to the value of the surface upon which it lands. In other words, imported Oriental Rug…Doomed. Linoleum floor…no problem.

Scientific research!

Actually, my cats would respond/stop when I caught them at something and shouted across a room. They would know what they were doing wasn’t allowed (e.g., walking into the kitchen and seeing one on the counter).

nOO

Methinks Goldie’s Investigative instincts need to be redirected.

Is this supposed to be a reference to Cranberries originally being called Bounceberries?

Yes, it does bounce. Briefly.

Noooo, Goldie!

Turns out Goldie and Lupin are more alike than we thought!

Beautiful pie. Hope someone took a picture because panel 5 is going to show a big mess with the Woman screaming or crying or both.

Yay! She’s an investigative reporter!

I wonder if the Woman has been watching The Great British Baking Show? I started watching that a while back. It sort of makes me want to bake fancy things, but they do seem like a lot of work.

Will the results of today’s experiment result in a Pucky chart?

I think Goldie is turning into another Lupin-

Bounce – no.

Splat – yes.

Shes not mean. Shes just being a cat.

No, no, no, you don’t bounce a tart—you eat the tart, you silly kitties.

If the world was truly flat, cats would have pushed everything off the edge by now.

Hm, didn’t bounce. Next question, what does smashed floor tart taste like?

Better that than “Does it blend?”

It doesn’t matter if it bounces or gets eaten, all that hard work disappears in seconds. I guess people photograph these artworks nowadays. I used to bake a lot but left the decorating to my wife.

Today is:

Chicken Soup For the Soul Day: BCN certainly falls in that category. Under the present circumstances, we’d all like a double order.

Fancy Rat & Mouse Day: SQUEEEEEEEEE-EAK!!! Now rat and mouse toebeans …

National Pizza with the Works Day: We call it “garbage pizza”—scraps of everything. They specify “No Anchovies,” but forgot to rule out lutefisk or gefilte fish. They said nothing about Brussels sprouts or kale. What were they thinking?

National French Dip Day: Is French Dip anything like Sheep Dip?

I’ll admit that some French people can be rather dippy, and they do have a reputation as dipsomaniacs, but if your national beverage was wine, why not? Dipping a French person may be problematic, unless wine is involved. Still why a day honoring … … What? Oh, the sandwich! Well, it figures that the French would find a less messy and more elegant way of eating Italian Beef, the eating of which essentially results in getting dipped in the jus. Now, lest those of French persuasion think my remarks too saucy, it’s all in fun. Now tell me, what wine goes best with French Dip?

Happy Hour Day: I’m all in favor of extending “Happy Hour” to a full day. We have the crew of the USS Arkansas, BB-33 to thank for the term. This is highly appropriate, because the Arkansas got really bombed at Bikini Atoll in 1946 …

And it turns out that the best thing to drink with a French Dip is … Belgian ale …

Goldie and Lupin actually share a lot of mischievousness.

Reminds me of the time my cat knocked the 2lbs of butter I was softening for my Christmas baking off the counter onto the floor where all 2lbs were eaten by my furry garbage disposal of a dog. That was OH so fun cleaning up that aftermath from his rumbly tummy.

Cartoons AND cranberry tarts?!!? Is there nothing this woman cant do?

Don’t do it, Goldie!

Is it just me or is this the first time Goldie has a microphone. Does that mean she is the resident investigative journalist?

OT: HAPPY 75th BIRTHDAY, NEIL YOUNG!!!

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Now that’s some hard hitting investigative journalism!

Lupin is rubbing off on her.

Can any of you lovelies in the Orb direct me to a marketplace other than Amazon that sells BCN books, please? I am angry with Amazon and wish to support a different vendor- even if it means spending more money to do so. Thank you all in advance.And thank you all also for your kind words for the loss of our Uma.

Inquiring minds want to know!

The bounce test is a vital QA modality in today’s food industry.

Gasp! Not the Woman’s masterpiece!

Goldie and Lupin may not get along very well, but she’s clearly been spending too much time with him.

I don’t love Goldie as much as I did before. Sorry, but that’s how it is.

this is Goldie’s debut as an investigative reporter?!?

Tonight Reboot got out again while we were bringing in the groceries. The tuna cans trick didn’t work, but sitting on the porch with a bite of chicken did. While I was waiting for Reboot to show up, I heard another cat talking that was much too loud to be Reboot. Then around the corner of the house came a beautiful Siamese cat. I’ve seen it around here for several days, occasionally hanging out on the front porch where we have a cat house and kibble and water. It seems to be not quite full grown or else is just very small, and quite brave. It doesn’t run very far when I drive up and get out of the car, just to the middle of the front yard. I talked to it tonight while waiting on Reboot and until it tells me differently, it’s name is Linux, or possibly FORTRAN. I left one chicken nugget in a tuna can on the front porch after I captured Reboot.

Mmmmmmmm, I wants one of these now.

Goldie, the Investigative Reporter!

If the fragments were good, I’d love to get the recipe! Looked beautiful and delicious, though fleeting.

no tarts dont pounce but i can tell this will end badly