August 21, 2007

Cats in boxes. It's no Cheezburger, and there are no dogs in shawls, but it does have lots of cats in boxes. An early fave.
posted by kitfisto 17 years ago
  • Can it be caturday?
  • Every day is caturday as far as I'm concerned!
  • Great stuff. Ya gotta love a cat-in-the-box.
  • Oh! Snoots loves box. I will take a photo this very night!
  • Not K, C!! Idiot.
  • Isn't "cats in boxes" a little redundant? Or am I just letting my recent viewing of Superbad color my language?
  • "500 - Internal Server Error" I CAN HAZ CAT PIX?
  • You damned 8000 monkeys had to go stomp all over another website! Is it thus to be our fate to kill, by our sheer size, the very things we cherish?
  • 8013. It's obviously those last 13 monkey-come-latelies that tipped the balance.
  • You damned 8000 monkeys had to go stomp all over another website! Is it thus to be our fate to kill, by our sheer size, the very things we cherish?NOW!! That'll teach those barstards to ignore US.
  • Let's stage a wikibomb. We'll all go, all 8,000 of us, at a pre-planned date and time. Of course, it's far easier to get easy-going monkeys to look at cats...
  • *faints from squeeeee*
  • Bobo duz NOT want cheezburger. Duz NOT want box. Damn bukket.
  • Those subtitles were spot-on. (Or in the case of Bobo, stripe-on.)
  • MY LUNGZ IS BROKEN FROM LAFFIN
  • Cats can... appear rather lazy, sleeping on average 13 to 14 hours a day – sometimes even up to 20 hours. Not really a ‘cat nap’, is it? Anybody who’s ever had a cat can testify to the fact that cats, while at times very friendly, cuddly and agreeable to people, in essence are solitary animals with an agenda of their own. To some exasperated owners, returning home after a hard day’s work to find the cat still curled up in the same place as when they left for the office, the question may arise: who is who’s pet? That’s sort of the attitude expressed in this cartoon map, which shows what cats really make of the bed of their ‘owners’. I found the Cat's Map here at Strange Maps and did a FFP with it. another cheap shill for my post! It originally came from here. (and there's lots more at funny cats bluedot) More from the Strange Map linky: To conclude this ‘Cat’s Map of the Bed’, here are 10 things you didn’t know about cats (unless you’re a cat fancier): 1. Cats don’t have a clavicle bone, allowing them to pass through any space no bigger than their head. 2. Cats move both legs on one side, and then both leg on the other, a trait they share with camels, giraffes and a select few other mammals. Nobody knows what the connection is, if any. 3. Typically, cat’s claws are sharper on the forefeet are sharper than on the hind feet. 4. Most cats have five claws on their front paws and four or five on their rear paws, but cats are prone to polydactyly. Famously, the cats hanging around Hemingway’s house in Key West are six-toed. 5. Cat’s night vision is superior to humans, but their day vision is inferior. 6. The official name for cat’s whiskers is vibrissae. 7. Due to an ancient mutation, cats can’t taste sweetness. 8. Blue-eyed cats with white fur have a higher incidence of genetic deafness. 9. Cats expend nearly as much fluid grooming as they do urinating. 10. Cats will almost never meow at other cats; that sound is reserved mostly for communication with humans.
  • And more from the Strange Maps site: see what you're missing? And because you didn’t know this either, here are 10 famous cats from history: 1. Boche: cat found by Anne Frank’s family while hiding in the attic in Amsterdam (name is a derogatory French term for German, comparable with ‘Kraut’). Would always pick (and lose) fights with another cat, aptly named Tommy. 2. CopyCat: the first cloned cat. 3. Kaspar: wooden cat used to round out unlucky parties of 13 at the Savoy Hotel in London. 4. Oscar: hospice cat with uncanny ability to predict which patients will die by curling up with them hours before their death. Recorded in the New England Journal of Medicine in mid-2007, when he had been right 25 times. 5. Sir Isaac Newton’s cat: its incessant desire to be let in and out allegedly drove Newton to invent the cat flap. 6. Siam: a gift from the American consul in Bangkok to US president Rutherford B. Hayes, the first Siamese cat in the US (1878). 7. The Master’s Cat: belonged to Charles Dickens, and would snuff his reading candle to get attention. 8. Muezza: the Prophet Mohammed’s cat. He once cut off the sleeve of his robe when called out to prayer rather than disturb the sleeping cat upon it, or so it’s related. 9. Sizi: Albert Schweitzer’s cat when he lived in Africa; although he was a left-hander, he would write with his right when Sizi slept on his left arm. 10. Taki: black female Persian cat of Raymond Chandler, who considered her his ‘feline secretary’ – he would read out the first drafts of his murder mysteries to her.
  • That Boche cat story is LOLZ. And what about Hodge? He was a very fine cat. A very fine cat indeed.
  • I miss my poor cat.
  • I know it's no real consolation, but I bet you gave that cat a really good life and it was happy and content while it lived. That's something you should feel good about. I know exactly how you feel though, ole buddy.
  • Kit's right. Any chance of giving another (maybe stray) the same good life? If so, it might be a fitting tribute to yours. (Assuming you're in a place/place in life where you can do so.) I firmly believe cats have an afterlife. (Nobody make fun of me for that, k?) 7. Due to an ancient mutation, cats can’t taste sweetness. How can they know a) that cats used to taste sweetness, b) that an "ancient mutation" occurred, and c) that cats now do not taste sweetnes?
  • Maybe they found ancient cat bones with lots of cavities in their teeth. ;-)
  • Coal Candy?
  • CAT COMEDY! Kitten is angry
  • Heh heh heh. It's funny 'cause it's true. /types with claw-scarred hands
  • Don't squash the Acoustic Kitty.