Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for April 23, 2022

Yay! Baba has arrived!

Wow-EEE! Baba is bustin’ some moves!

Shake a tail feather, Baba Mouse!

The rarest sight of all—Baba smiles! She looks twenty years younger!

A Google search puts most of those dances in the 90s during Baba’s youth. The electric slide’s origin was earlier, but maybe it was popular in the 90s still or again. I went out dancing a few times in college in the 80s and I dated a guy briefly at the end of the 80s, beginning of the 90s who was into dancing, but after that pretty much the only dancing I did was at weddings or work Christmas parties. Of course I heard of the Macarena and I the electric slide might have come up at one of those weddings or Christmas parties, But I don’t remember the other two.

This is just too cool. She’s terrific!

It looks like everyone is having so much fun partying and dancing that they forgot to wrestle! LOL..

So is next week going to be dedicated to cleaning up before the people get home? Now that Baba is there they should be able to get it clean in no time. She will keep everyone focused on the task at hand.

And NOW it’s a party! …I’m just old enough to remember the Macarena playing at rollerskating rinks (although barely, and only in the context of “school field trips” or “kid’s birthday party”). It’s wonderful to see Baba Mouse having so much fun!

Get down,Baba! She’s still got it!

The team’s fully assembled!

Us Seniors got moves!

I love to see an appearance by Baba Mouse. OT but interesting: I always like to post these wonderful kitten rescue stories, here is one a friend sent to me from the Carolinas:

www.cbs17.com/news/local-news/wake-county-news/state-capitol-police-rescue-crying-kittens-from-storm-drain/

Gotta boogie!

Awww yeah, Granny Mouse! Still got the moves! :D

A cat in Scotland made the news today. Returned home after five years. Most of the time he was hanging around a prison, visiting inmates. But that’s NOT the extraordinary place he was found…

https://news.sky.com/story/cat-nicknamed-one-eyed-joe-by-prison-staff-found-in-shipping-container-on-offshore-oil-rig-five-years-after-he-vanished-12596543

https://www.thenational.scot/news/20086859.one-eyed-cat-rescued-spca-sneaking-onto-north-sea-platform/

Another classic strip!

How old is Baba? I imagine her to be about 18 human years.

The last “sick move” I made was the notorious “Banana Peel”. It surely was no “Electric Slide” and absolutely no “Maaa-careen-a”, but a classical “Rump Shaker” and a good laugh for everyone “Tootsie me roll” along the banana peeled-floor. And it made me sick a little, I can tell ya!

For those new to BCN, you can find a kitten photo of Baba Mouse in the archives of the original BCN homepage. If you scroll down the page, Baba is the kitten being bottle fed by Winifred Quinn. Her baby blanket then is her kerchief, or babushka now.

http://www.breakingcatnews.com/comic/breaking-cat-news-halloween-special-part-eight/

Party on, Baba!

Ooh

She can dance

She can jive

Mad moves from all her 9 lives

Ooh, see Baba

Watch that scene

Digging the dancing f’line

Friday night and the lights are low

BPH is the place to go

Where Burt plays the right music

Getting in the swing

Hear Lupin’s ♫ ding-a-ling ♫

No one out-parties that guy

Night is young and the music’s high

With a bit of rock music

Beneath strobe lights’ shine

Baba can bust a move

And when she’s in the groove

She is a dance machine

Tart and sweet

Only seventy

Whoa, yeah!

Whips and daps

Feel the slaps from her thunder claps, oh yeah

She can dance

She can jive

Having the time of 9 lives

Ooh, she’s a pearl

Catch her scene

Digging the dancing f’line

Loving the dancing queen ❤️

- Benny Goran Bror Andersson / Bjoern K. Ulvaeus / Stig Erik Leopold Anderson – Dancing Queen – ABBA

Beatrix shaking that pointy kitten tail!

ABBA: Dancing Queen (What else?)

Friday night and the Gang’s arrived

Puck and Lupin are ready to jive,

Even Elvis is smiling,

Everybody is fine

A night of fine revelry!

Everybody is having fun,

Sophie and Goldie show how it’s done,

Up on the Big Red Sofa,

It’s not hard to see

The best is yet to be!

And then she arrives!

…….

Baba the Dancing Queen,

With her moves,

Showing she still can groove!

Dancing Queen,

Timeless fun,

Showing us how it’s done!

Oh Yeah!

You can dance,

Still have have fire,

Kittens and cats all admire!

Lady Cat,

Makes the scene,

Baba’s the Dancing Queen!

…….

Cats and kitten and mice all see,

You have the moves and the way to be,

Show the Young Generation,

Everyone can have fun,

And you can show them how,

You let them know right now!

…….

Baba the Dancing Queen,

With her moves,

Showing she still can groove!

Dancing Queen,

Timeless fun,

Showing us how it’s done!

Oh Yeah!

You can dance,

Still have have fire,

Kittens and cats all admire!

Lady Cat,

Makes the scene,

Baba’s the Dancing Queen!

Did a search engine on the Tootse Roll. It is a Hip Hop dance move from the group in 1994 called 69 Boyz. The dance is still popular today. Baba Mouse can still shake it-good for her.

Damn, this makes me feel so old!!

I knew she’d be there! :) Gotta love the Baba Mouse!

I did not expect Baba to show up, but she is showing out. It looks like those moves are mostly straight from her mid-’90s heyday. Show those young cats how it was done!

They look so cute in the last panel! :)

Macarena? Electric Slide?

Believe it or not, all I can do is a waltz. If you spin enough, you get by.

Since Alexandria was a baby, all I have wanted to do is Waltz with her at her wedding. But, of course, now she says she is never getting married…sure, stab me in the heart, kid.

My Ballet dancer son, Mac, has taken Character Dance classes. So when you see movies about 17th & 18th-century court/ballroom dancing, Mac can do that. In addition, he does a beautiful Coupé-jeté en tournant (one of my favorite ballet moves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6jlRF8-p0Q).

Now it’s a party – Go, Baba, GO! :-)

This has really been a fantastic story arc, with great plot & dialogue and incredible art.

This has been a BCN, Georgia Dunn Classic; destine to be remembered along with arcs like Bea’s arrival, Elvis getting lost outside at Christmas, and the Golden Mouse saga.

Baba’s here !!!? This raises the question, will she keep the party in control?

Stop these modern, sinful, rock and roll type dances, Baba Mouse!

I love the Cupid Shuffle and The Wobble

There’s also a fun country one done to the Song Copper Town Road

I hope they play a tango!

Yay! Baba Mouse is in da house.

The Macarena! Finally, a dance I actually know how to do! :P

Baba Mouse, this ones for you baby….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tVR_Lwpfl0

Now strut your stuff……..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSrHXvdzQ9o

Shake it up Baba, now

Shake it up Baba

Twist and shout

Twist and shout!

Now the gang’s all here!! So happy to see Baba Mouse, and I’m still on my 10-cat-4-mice panel high from yesterday!!!

Whoa! Baba Mouse is one heck of a dancer.

This reminded me. If you have a subscription to the Jacquie Lawrence card site, check out the Baba Yaga card in the Halloween cards. The house running with its chicken legs is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.

Hope there’s no spraying in the last panel.

Pic of old man friend shooting the moon: https://tinyurl.com/SeniorMoon Vasco da Gama could have used those drawers.

OT: The Pepper Saga Concludes

Does the change in background color for each panel mean anything?

Shirley Temple sang the “Good Ship Lollipop” which has a phrase See the sugar bowl do the Tootsie Roll with a big, fat devil’s food cake"!

Of course she’d know them.

Does anyone else feel a need for plushies of all the crew? Specially Baba!

Go Baba! Go Baba! It’s your Birthday!!

What are the colored sunglasses for?

OT: World Book Day

Today is World Book Day. I know we are a community of readers. What book are you currently reading? What are some of your all time favorite books?

I’m currently in the middle of the CI Gamache mystery series with book 10, The Long Way Home. I picked up a copy of The Book Thief by Markus Zusak on sale today. It’s been on my “books to read before I die” shelf for awhile. I’ll most likely start on that one next.

My all time favorite books, the ones I have read until I’ve worn them out and had to replace them, are Little Men by Louisa May Alcott, The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams, and The Door Into Summer by Robert Heinlein.

Love Bea’s little rump moves!!

Well, try as they might when the humans get home, the party has now been documented and there will be no denying that it occurred. Here is the proof:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B7j5DIqBJA

Hey Baba, can you Polka and Obedek?

Is this the first time we’ve seen Baba’s tail? Because it’s magnificently fluffy!

I suppose that’s where her g’g’g’grandson Burt got his floof.

Shes so old that those dances are all she knows.