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[sabotabby]

The perfect thing for a shitty day:
Cats who talk. Talking cats. OMG.

Soon, they will develop opposable thumbs and humans will no longer be needed.

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[herkyjerkydance.livejournal.com]

They all sound like demon-possessed children. Excellent!

[maeve66.livejournal.com]

That is the plot of one of my favorite sci fi novels -- André Norton's Breed to Come. Seriously; talking, opposable thumbs and a slightly bigger frame.

That last cat was very, very angry. Or possibly on psychotropic drugs, if you look at the speech utterances.

Man, thanks for that clip. I'm totally sharing it with friends.

[sabotabby]

Well, a talking cat would have to sound like a demon-possessed child. There's no other way.

[sabotabby]

It cheered me up greatly. I'll have to read that book.

[ironed_orchid]

Jaz is very confused by the sounds coming out of my speakers.

He can speak already, but he mostly says stuff like "prrt prrrrrrt awroarow".

[sabotabby]

I miss my kitty who only talked about Mao all day long. I also miss it when Marinetti chirped. Someone taught him how to meow, which isn't quite as much fun.

[jaymoh.livejournal.com]

Ayida just came over and very curiously watched the screen, head slightly cocked. Camera was not in reach. :(

That last cat was either very frightened or very sick. The "mama" one killed me though.

[sabotabby]

Awww.

I think the last cat just has a weird meow. Marinetti and Luna both sound like they're in pain half the time.

[jhfurnish.livejournal.com]

Andre Norton was a cat lover who wrote tons of sci-fi with inspiration from her cats.

She wrote Daybreak 2250 AD, which had a main characater named Lura, a mutated giant siamese who was the hunting companion of Fors, the Star Man's son who went abroad to explore the post-apocalyptic world...

...and I read this in seventh grade. It's a great read for a young'un.

Hopefully cats will finish their evolution into full sentience soon so they can get rid of these miserable humans and begin their mission of galactic dominance. All this Amerikashit is getting really boring and depressing.

[jaymoh.livejournal.com]

Maybe, but Ayida makes sounds like that sometimes right before she's gonna puke onna rug. It sounds more like "Lordy, lordy, lordy, lordy..." Or sometimes "ladle, ladle..." I hate that sound, esp @2am.

[sabotabby]

It sounds like the kind of read that I'd appreciate, even though I'm far from being a young'un..

I am so sick of humans. Cats wouldn't even aim for galactic dominance. Why? Because it's more fun to sleep in sunbeams and catch mice. Which is why they're vastly superior to people.

[sabotabby]

Also, it has no ears.

[jaymoh.livejournal.com]

Huh. Totally off topic:
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/article571538.ece

Enjoy!

[ironed_orchid]

Daj, the kitty pictured, only rarely meows. Mostly he opens his mouth and no sound comes out.

Jaz, the black kitty, is very vocal. I should teach him to sing. (And he's just spent the last 5 minutes trying to scramble up the curtains, which is cute but annoying.)

[ironed_orchid]

So have you seen "New Earth", the first episode of the current series of Dr. Who?

The cats aren't entirely benevolent, cos, well, they're cats, but they do try to do the best they can for the miserable humans.

[sabotabby]

My hero!

This needs to go in the next Ted Nugent post. Or maybe the last, which is coming soon and will be very special.

[sabotabby]

Oooh, I did. I often suspect that Doctor Who mines my brains, because there are often gratuitous zeppelins and cats* and such. I think those cats might have been a bit corrupted by religion, though. Actual cats would never be that cooperative.

* What am I talking about? Neither cats nor zeppelins are ever gratuitous.

[ironed_orchid]

Yes, they were oddly un-catlike. The zeppelins were great, but I couldn't help thinking of Michael Moorcock, cos alternative universes containing zeppelins are pretty standard in his books.

I think I need a Dr. Who icon. Damn fannish impulses.

[jaymoh.livejournal.com]

Your hero and the next governor of Michigan!

Good article. I thought it might cheer you up. :)

[jhfurnish.livejournal.com]

I think I said that because I'm a man.

But I do want cats to take over. Now.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Holy shit, you're reading a whole book written by this guy? I think I should reconsider your sanity.

[sabotabby]

Past tense. I'm still posting it slowly, but I finished the book a few months ago.

My only defense is that it was a very quick read.

[pretzelsalt.livejournal.com]

I know this much.

If cats could talk, they wouldn't.

If they did decide talking was appropriate it sure as hell wouldn't be "mama" or "i love you".

[sabotabby]

No. It'd be, "Give me the food. Not that food, I hate that food. Give me the good food. Okay, now fuck off."

Except that they can convey this without speech.

[pretzelsalt.livejournal.com]

Oh - and I know some cats with opposable thumbs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polydactyl_cat

Decades and decades of the 6th toe phenomenon and I have actually met some furballs who can pick stuff up with their alien toe.



The future is now.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Soon, they will develop opposable thumbs and humans will no longer be needed.

Soon they will be able to type and give snark running commentary like Ruben in Howard Chaykin's American Flagg.

[sabotabby]

A girl can dream.

Errata

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Crap. Ruben is the human's name. Not the cat's. Raul is the cat.

The second cover is taken from a storyline in which Ruben, the human, is in Canada, which is ruled by posses of communist cowboys.