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Open Thread

By Anne Laurie January 9th, 2011

Every time I watch this, I think about the blogosphere.

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Posted in Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Cat Blogging, Open Thread
This entry was posted on Sunday, January 9th, 2011 at 5:10 pm and is filed under Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Cat Blogging, Open Thread. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
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24 Responses to “Open Thread”



  1. 1 schrodinger's cat Says:

    Most sedate cat fight ever.


    January 9th, 2011 at 5:12 pm



  2. 2 MikeJ Says:

    It’s too early to know what this means. People trying to score points off kitty pattycake make me sick.


    January 9th, 2011 at 5:12 pm



  3. 3 schrodinger's cat Says:

    @MikeJ: What did the audio say, I watched the clip with the audio off.


    January 9th, 2011 at 5:14 pm



  4. 4 MikeJ Says:

    @schrodinger’s cat: I have no idea, I was snarking.


    January 9th, 2011 at 5:16 pm



  5. 5 debit Says:

    @schrodinger’s cat: You must have the audio on.


    January 9th, 2011 at 5:16 pm



  6. 6 PurpleGirl Says:

    Mark: that was good snark.

    The video is funny, thanks for posting it.


    January 9th, 2011 at 5:20 pm



  7. 7 demkat620 Says:

    Patty cake?

    I thought it was a reenactment of Henry V.


    January 9th, 2011 at 5:23 pm



  8. 8 Yutsano Says:

    @PurpleGirl: It was much funnier to me with AL’s tag line. Watching it in that context had me rolling. Otherwise I thought it was kinda meh, beyond the how they taught the cats to do that.


    January 9th, 2011 at 5:25 pm



  9. 9 Mnemosyne Says:

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    The audio is worth it—it’s the conversation the cats are having while they’re playing pattycake.


    January 9th, 2011 at 5:29 pm



  10. 10 MoonBatista Says:

    It sounds a bit like us at times, no?


    January 9th, 2011 at 5:30 pm



  11. 11 efgoldman Says:

    I was going to comment about how the only useful cat is one that catches rodents for a living.(*)

    I decided not to, because given the nature and inclination of this blog, I’d get banned like some kind of BoB or something.

    But no dog ever spent the night staying warm on the engine block of my truck, leaving one of those incredibly lovely scent bombs you get when you start the engine and turn the heat on in the morning.

    Just saying.

    (*)ETA: Wish my next-door-neighbor’s cat wasn’t so fat and lazy. Maybe it could rid me of my chipmunk plague. THEY’RE not so damned cute, either.


    January 9th, 2011 at 5:30 pm



  12. 12 Cat Lady Says:

    The internet was invented for cats. Hilarious.

    Here’s an another classic from the dawn of DIY video. It will always be teh awesome.


    January 9th, 2011 at 5:32 pm



  13. 13 ruemara Says:

    My kitty says, “Mer?”


    January 9th, 2011 at 5:43 pm



  14. 14 schrodinger's cat Says:

    @Mnemosyne: I heard it, too funny for words! Usually if my kittehs are doing this, they are fighting and making blood curdling noises to go with it.


    January 9th, 2011 at 5:43 pm



  15. 15 gnomedad Says:

    You’ve prolly all seen this, but it demands to be posted here:
    Talking Cats Translation.


    January 9th, 2011 at 6:00 pm



  16. 16 trollhattan Says:

    Kittehs to teh rescue. Hilarious, and quite goofy even w/o the dialogue. What katz do dis?


    January 9th, 2011 at 6:03 pm



  17. 17 asiangrrlMN Says:

    Heh. So cute. I agree that Anne Laurie’s comments make it funnier.

    @Cat Lady: I was expecting cats, and you give me BSB? Argh. My pristine ears.


    January 9th, 2011 at 6:11 pm



  18. 18 Gina Says:

    Win! Especially with your editorial comment, AL.


    January 9th, 2011 at 6:31 pm



  19. 19 Cat Lady Says:

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Weirdly, I think that BSB song is genius, and the Chinese translation of American emo is so great. YMMV.

    BTW, I saw Vienna Teng last night. Yutsano warned me you won’t share her with me cuz I want to gay marry her.


    January 9th, 2011 at 6:35 pm



  20. 20 soonergrunt Says:

    Awesome!


    January 9th, 2011 at 7:03 pm



  21. 21 Delia Says:

    I love cats. They’re so incomprehensible.

    Thanks.


    January 9th, 2011 at 8:01 pm



  22. 22 trixie larue Says:

    I guess having cats who do “rock, paper, scissors” before every meal makes “pattycake” easy to believe. I think cats were humans before they were cats. They came back as cats and still know all the silly games.


    January 9th, 2011 at 8:30 pm



  23. 23 debg Says:

    I’d seen this without the overdub (in fact, I showed it in class to a bunch of college students), but it’s even better now. So I can show it again!


    January 10th, 2011 at 1:58 am



  24. 24 carrieoki Says:

    Having observed Palin over 2 years, this is offered as an observation, though not as a diagnosis. She has the major characteristics of a sociopath—first and foremost is playing the victim. Her inability to accept blame; gas lighting (engineering the discrediting or firing of those who do not agree with her or cross her); lying; feeling she is deserving of special favors; that rules are for others, but not for her; and using others, including family, as tools. These major characteristics are listed in “the sociopath next door: The Ruthless Versus the Rest of Us,” by Martha Stoudt, Ph.D., 2005, Crown Publishing (hard cover); Broadway Books, 2006 (paperback).
    Sociopaths have no conscience, they do not see how their actions affect others. Sociopaths have no insight into their behaviour. It was amusing, but now it is tragic. Why do you think Palin has not grown one iota in the time she has been in the public eye? She does not have the capacity to apologize or feel remorse for her actions. It is because of this apparent mental condition. She is very dangerous. And even more dangerous because she can be manipulated by the money and power of others who may have more malevolent intentions.


    January 11th, 2011 at 3:06 am