The tale of the cat and the mouse
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21 Comments
Polanski’s Macbeth eh, played by Disney mice.
Shudder, shiver, tremble. Yuk.
Too close to the truth. When I was young a trip to the beach meant driving past a ‘Foxes hangout’. Or seeing dead wedge-tailed eagles hanging on a fence.
One thing about being urbanised is that we forget how barbarous the rural brigade can be.
When I was 9 my elderly white mouse (Montgomery Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin Mike Collins Charlie Degville Junior Esquire) died. In a moving ceremony we buried him in a spark plug box under Mum’s fuschia.
I love ‘Death of a mouse’. Very atmospheric. Worthy of on Oscar for “Best Rodent Horror Flick”, surely. Poor mousie. I love mousies!
Cats can be so astonishingly neat when leaving you remains. I once found a paw and an unidentified organ on my loungeroom carpet. No blood or gore or anything else. Very mysterious.
PS My ‘Buzz’ nickname comes from Buzz Lightyear (“to infinity and beyond”) not Buzz Aldrin.
Buzz that is an excellent mouse name. I think my best pet mouse name was Stinklepuss (courtesy of my Dad, when I was nine I had a strong tendency to name mice things like Cinnamon and Nutmeg).
What a noble interment for Buzz’s First Mouse on the Moon.
Whas Charlie Degville in Sigue Sigue Sputnik?
Mmmmmm mice.
FD, your cat looks much more ferocious than Jasper. Is this our first viewing of the Onthemoon Family’s feline?
Dog: How can you do better than this ? Maybe the Ray Coniff Orchestra and the Jason Coleman Dancers ?
BTW - what kind of dog keeps a cat ?
Buzz: Was it a tiny mouse or a bloody HUGE sparkplug - for what, an iron ore truck or a super tanker ?
ACANNON: How lucky are you ! Just the neatly severed paw. Tidy. The First mate’s cats leave half mice, half rats and guts all over the yard. Nice when you’re putting out the washing in the dark in bare feet. Urk !
Sigue Sigue Sputnik’s Martin Degville is a cousin x-times removed
Best Friday comic ever! Well until next Friday…
Where? Wha? Teeth? The Teeth!! TEETH!!
chomp.
That’s a nice dressing gown, FD. Where did you get it and does it come in a National Institution size?
My son had a mouse called Mr Addalittlematter. When told to put him somewhere safe whilse the cage was being cleaned, he was put in the empty teapot. Too much Alice in Wonderland. Scilla Rosenberg
DAVID ROSENBERG: I don’t believe you!
Cheers V
Mr Dog, you may have the rights to ‘Leunig moment (TM)’, but would you care to purchase from me trade mark approval for a series of self-help books ‘First Dog In The Moment’.
Acannon I had guinea pigs named Cinammon and Nutmeg! Also a ginger. She sat on her babies and suffocated them and my parents were very alarmed when I didn’t cry.
OK, I’ll confess. I too had a cat called Nutmeg, another one called David Jones, a Catmint and a Topaz, and my present cat Walnut who is sitting here screaming at me to get off the computer.
FD I’m devastated to think you considered skewering a mouse head as a deterrent to other mousies. In nature’s order mice have a purpose and this means you’re effectually an interferring little mutt! And because I can’t bear to think you’re a mongrel I’m an emotional mess trying to determine where this empathy/commonsense meme starts and ends??
Good one Chris.
Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim’rous beastie
FD, you’ve got to start putting more interesting mouse-over messages on your strips. (would have been even more impressive for a strip about a mouse) - for inspiration look at the xkcd strip