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1. about 13 hours ago on Rubes

   I hear smoking is big in 2024. Just one of the things which Phileas Fogg came to regret, in this story.

2. 6 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   I had another idea that there are two sonic signals simultaneously and the adults are only hearing one of them, but I haven’t figured out the details.

   The bit where Lupin appeals to Elvis as a friend, and Elvis promptly does the opposite of what Lupin wanted – that’s funny!

3. 9 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   First we need to clarify what did really happen – in a comic-world where cats dress like correspondingly ethnic humans (including a Scottish cat ghost in “Full Highland Dress” or “The Ghost Goes West” (1935). So we need to wait. Except for that and all of the animals running TV news stations and the one sapient Roomba it’s realistic. :-) But I’m guessing “Lupin is deaf as we know, and kids are immune because whatever”.

   Suppose that the alien Roombas are The Borg, from Star Trek, and they use an auditory signal to control workers. But due to child labor laws, children and kittens are immune, and adult humans are asleep because you don’t get up and work in the middle of the d___ night. (Unless you do.)

   So, what happened when The Big Pink House was un-mess-ilated? Stay tuned next week! Same cat time! Same cat channel!

4. 11 days ago on Rubes

   I think it’s referring to several frog and toad species that sweat out one or another poison, presumably as defence, which can be collected and used as a mind-altering drug. Carefully, of course. I haven’t looked deep enough, nor am I planning to, to say if different frogs and toads produce different drugs. But people seem to be specific about their frog.

   Does it make the frog hallucinate (experience fantasy) as well? How would we know? But it’s nearly a pun if the critter also is a hallucinating amphibian.

5. 13 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   It looks bigger than her mouth, which is unlikely. Maybe she is reaching towards the camera. The Snopes Web site gets a number of “looks big because it is close to the camera” inquiries, or as they call it, “forced perspective”. A subject which elsewhere seems to include some really big cats.

6. about 1 month ago on Breaking Cat News

   It’s a little extreme. And surely this is “la señora de arriba”, the Upstairs or Ceiling Woman.

   I tried Google Translate and “ceiling” and translated back and she ended up on the roof, which probably is solvable but not by me.

   “The Day of the Dead” is celebrated, and apparently on various dates, but I didn’t find September.

7. about 1 month ago on Breaking Cat News

   “Star Trek: The Next Generation” also has “Clues” and “Conundrum” for waking up not knowing what happened. The original series has “Mirror, Mirror” where nearly all of the crew goes weird. Well, not exactly. Voyager and Enterprise have “everyone is asleep intentionally” stories. Aliens messing with the crew’s bodies or minds… that’s too many episodes to count!

8. about 1 month ago on Breaking Cat News

   Are other dish towels OK? Does the evil dish towel have a design or a picture on it, like Darth Vader, or 101 Dalmatians?

9. about 1 month ago on Breaking Cat News

   Thank you. But, what holiday is this in September?

10. about 1 month ago on Breaking Cat News

    Wasn’t there supposed to be a thing about either space aliens, or early Americans (not necessarily factual), seeing horse riders and not understanding that it’s two creatures, one sitting on the other?