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| 925.2 | It was borrowed! | BAGELS::ALLEN | | Tue Dec 01 1987 13:24 | 10 |
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I always thought that was a quote from MY favorite cat-cartoonist,
B. Kliban! I believe he originated it in his book CAT (a must for
all cat lovers in my opinion).
Personally, I think Kliban does a better job at depicting cats and
capturing their true nature. (You can tell I'm not really a Garfield
fan :-) -oh well...)
Amy.
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| 925.3 | Love to buy them t-shirts! | CLUSTA::TAMIR | To a cat, all things belong to cats | Tue Dec 01 1987 18:27 | 15 |
| I'm also a B. Kliban fan. I think Noko Marie is better than Garfield
ANY day!! It was an original Kliban, and this cartoon found fame
and fortune on a t-shirt produced by a company in Hawaii called
Crazy Shirts. They have an exclusive on t-shirts for B. Kliban,
and have over the years produced a large number of Kliban-cat shirts.
I collect them, and now have over a dozen different shirts. But!
Due to popular demand! The original "love to eat them mousies"
shirt is coming back this winter! That's one I don't have but I
plan to get one (or maybe 2 or 3...). Another favorite is a shirt
depicting 3 rocking cats (one on guitar, one on drums, one on sax)
and the caption reads "Sex, Mice and Rock 'n Roll!".
Did we (me!) somehow get off the original note topic??
Mary
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| 925.4 | Aren't we talking about funnies? | BAGELS::ALLEN | | Tue Dec 01 1987 19:20 | 19 |
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Hi Mary,
No, I don't THINK we got off the topic, it was about jokes, and
cartoons fit right in! Do you have the book CAT by Kliban? He
is SO clever, and his cat expressions and faces are PURRFECT! Let
me know when you find a "mousie" T-shirt, because I'd love one too.
I have the pillowcases with the cat with tennis shoes on.
I am always referring back to that book when my cats remind me of it...
somtimes it's because I didn't quite "get it" when I first read it, and
all of a sudden they'll do something, and I'll say, "Hey! that's right
of of a Kliban cartoon! so THAT'S what he meant!"
Mostly it's when they use his "cat vocabulary" The only one I haven't
heard is wacka wacka! (YET!)
Amy
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| 925.5 | Garfield and rodents | TOKLAS::FELDMAN | PDS, our next success | Tue Dec 01 1987 19:38 | 11 |
| For the record:
Garfield likes mice -- as friends. He's afraid to try to kill them,
since they can gang up on him. Sometimes he'll try to play jokes
on them, or vice versa, though Garfield's usual target is the dumb
dog, Odie.
Garfield's favorite meal, of course, is lasagna accompanied by strong
coffee.
Gary
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| 925.6 | Next business venture | GLINKA::GREENE | | Wed Dec 02 1987 01:13 | 9 |
| Mary,
Please get EXTRA's of those Love to Eat Them Mousies T-shirts!
I'd love a couple!
Here we go again...this follows the Bears!!! ;-)
Penelope
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| 925.7 | Wacka wacka | RHODES::WARD | Is there intelligent life down here? | Wed Dec 02 1987 03:02 | 10 |
| RE: Wacka wacka, Mary, the book says this is not widely used. Maybe
they have said it when you are not around :-)
I have the Eat them mousies mug, but I could still use a T-shirt,
or 2 or 3 or... I also have the Supercat mug.
A friend gave me a stuffed Kliben cat which we named Quat (I think
from the book), then we found another one later and named her Quatina.
Bernice
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| 925.8 | | AIMHI::MCCURDY | | Wed Dec 02 1987 11:37 | 4 |
| Hi.. funyy you should mention that.. lst winter when my so and I
were in hawaii..he bought me a sweatshirt with one of klibans cats
doing the hula. it is my favorite sweatshirt.. more later
KATE
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| 925.9 | Favorite Kliban | BUFFER::HOFFMAN | Joan Hoffman, DTN: 276-9829 | Wed Dec 02 1987 14:46 | 14 |
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My favorite Kliban t-shirt is the one depicting the two cats, sitting on a
backyard fence, looking at the moon, and the fatter (male) cat is saying
to the female, "If I had two dead rats, I'd give you one".
From Kliban's book, CAT, I love the cartoon picturing the Trojan "bird",
with the saying, "Happy Birthday to you".
Garfield is a little too distainful for me, but I love Heathcliffe!
Regards,
J.
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| 925.10 | More cartoon cats | VIDEO::TEBAY | Natural phenomena invented to order | Wed Dec 02 1987 16:02 | 15 |
| As with real ones I never meet a cartoon cat I didn't like.
Anyone familar with "BONKERS" and "KING RAT"?
Bonkers lives with a family of mice in a gas station (he really
runs the place).
King Rat was a British strip which caused a lot of flack I understand.
I only found both of these in paperback book collections.
Kliban cats are much more well cat-like. Garfield is all too human
but I like him.
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| 925.11 | Will I ever learn??? (NO!) | CLUSTA::TAMIR | To a cat, all things belong to cats | Thu Dec 03 1987 13:22 | 9 |
| Oh, God, what have I done??? I've created another monster! Since
I will be near a Crazy Shirt shop next week, I will check on the
status of the mousie's shirts. I also love the dead rat shirt,
but I think that's "out of print". They come out with 2 or 3 new
shirts every year...and I keep getting them!
I'll post another note when I get a status report...
Mary
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