‘alo! Jost poppin’ in fo’ a spo’ o’ tea!

by Meg on May 13, 2008

Behbeh: ‘alo! Jost poppin’ in fo’ a spo’ o’ tea!
Cat: Right oh, just getting the teacops out now! [rattle rattle rattle]

Leanin

Johanna S. found this photo from several terrific ones over at Uber Cats slide shows

{ 104 comments }

1 Theo 05.13.08 at 8:33 pm

Matchingks AGAIN!!

2 Theo 05.13.08 at 8:35 pm

PS – louver lurvvv!

3 debg 05.13.08 at 8:39 pm

That’s why I hate the mini-blinds. Cats bend ‘em. If they always came with little kittens, I could change my mind.

4 Katrina 05.13.08 at 8:39 pm

Cat thoughts….cat thoughts…cat thoughts.cat thoughts……

5 sunnymum 05.13.08 at 8:39 pm

The legs on the bebeh kitteh are KILLING ME! And their expressions are priceless, “what?”

6 Metz 05.13.08 at 8:41 pm

They’re both looking at us sayin’, “What? Can we help you wif sumtin? Din’t tink so, movealong!”

7 Daphne Moss 05.13.08 at 8:46 pm

Pretty cat makes pretty kitten…a nice Mom’s day postscrip

8 julia 05.13.08 at 9:05 pm

How do I submit?!

9 Theo 05.13.08 at 9:11 pm

Julia — look a little further down in the right-hand margin for the heading “Got Cute?”

10 brinnann 05.13.08 at 9:12 pm

Julia, scroll waaaaay down, and on the right there will be a blue heading box (with yellow ducky) that says “Got Cute” with a link posted in the paragraph below it.

11 brinnann 05.13.08 at 9:13 pm

Or I could just post it for ya, huh?
cuteoverload [at] frostdesign.net

12 brinnann 05.13.08 at 9:14 pm

Or here: http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/submissions.html

[Yep. Please don't skip the legalese... - Ed.]

13 jmuhj 05.13.08 at 9:14 pm

Yesh, teh niidz tew com wiv littuhl kittunz oar teh cud alsew com wiv fuhl saizz kittehz. Iithur wai iz gud fur mii.

14 David 05.13.08 at 9:20 pm

I’m moving to a new apartment. And the first thing I’m going to do after settling down is to get 2 kittehs. Should I get vertical blinds?

15 Khadija 05.13.08 at 9:24 pm

Mini Me

16 zeldapie 05.13.08 at 9:27 pm

Jolly good, what?!

17 AuntieMame 05.13.08 at 9:34 pm

“Should I get vertical blinds?”

David, it depends. Do you want the kittehs to destroy them by crawling through them (see photo above) or by climbing up them? :)

18 TurboFloof 05.13.08 at 9:34 pm

Oh yeah, there’s definitely been something into which someone has gotten!

Guilty has never looked so innocent…

19 Patty P 05.13.08 at 9:46 pm

*is ded from ta cute*

20 shaz2 05.13.08 at 9:46 pm

OMG I think my favorite part of this photo is the little back paws of the kitten standing on tiptoe! :)

S

21 Juniper Jupiter 05.13.08 at 9:57 pm

***HEAD ASPLOSION***

Too freakin’ KYOOT!!!

22 Birdcage 05.13.08 at 10:00 pm

Can someone explain to me what the word “bleen” means? I have been baffled for a while. I thought I knew, but lately not so sure. I love this site but don’t want to mis-use the lingo and anger the moderator….and the glossary isn’t helping me – I suspect I’m missing something of an insider nature……

23 Theo 05.13.08 at 10:09 pm

It doesn’t mean anything. That’s the whole joke, such as it is.
http://teho.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c2252668128e1d00f48ceed2dd0003.html

24 Rachel Sweeden 05.13.08 at 10:13 pm

I hate mini blinds for that reason my cat tore the blinds to shreds.

25 pyrit 05.13.08 at 10:26 pm

How sporting of you. Do come in.

26 Annie J 05.13.08 at 10:31 pm

lol I love the caption! Kittehs are cute! *cuddles*

27 SarahR 05.13.08 at 10:34 pm

Birdcage, good thinking: Do Not Anger the Moderator. Teho Crush!

Yours,
Bleeny McBleenster.

28 riolinda 05.13.08 at 10:36 pm

a mini me kitten! :)

29 ee 05.13.08 at 10:39 pm

“Should I get vertical blinds?”

Well, David, you could, but I’m wondering what that has to do with this picture of cats and HORIZONTAL blinds!

Just giving you a hard time.

30 gryt 05.13.08 at 10:47 pm

I love their little moufs. :D

31 Annie 05.13.08 at 10:57 pm

LOL well these are the awesome unbendable wooden blinds, they do keep your adult cat from climbing through them unlike the metal ones which seem to be an invitation to bend fold crease and other wise cause kitty chaos.

and regarding the vertical blinds.. they are also a kitty playground. SO I say install them (either kind) at your own risk. (we have all three kinds… all 3 are cat magnets)

32 chanpon 05.13.08 at 10:59 pm

LOL! Looks like Mom has sent little baby to the gallows or something.

33 berthaservant 05.13.08 at 11:05 pm

How is it that EVERY single new pic absolutely SLAYS me? This one is AWESOME. It’s like I want to buy a new computer so I don’t have to choose my desktop (I know, I could prolly do some kinda slideshow….)

LOUVRE the matchingks!

34 pyrit 05.13.08 at 11:05 pm

Overhears birdcage’s question.
(Sam the saloon piano player suddenly stops and runs for cover.)
Removes gloves, spits, leans in, removes hat, combs back greasy hair with 3 dirty hairy fingers, squints at shot glass, “That’s Sheriff Bleen to you, ‘n don’t fergit it.”

35 Sasha's mum 05.13.08 at 11:35 pm

Hey, curtains aren’t necessarily any better than blinds. When my girl was a bebeh, she just *had* to climb the curtains to get to the box valance on top. Daily. Or several times a day.

Cats = destruction of personal property. You gotta know that getting in. It’s just part of the deal.

36 oakling 05.13.08 at 11:56 pm

tiny cockney kittehs!!! i will give them kitty tea biscuits.

37 Birdcage 05.14.08 at 12:09 am

Still kinda scared of the bl@@n word, notwithstanding assurances of its non-meaning. Think I’m going to stick to nom, and snorgle and scritch and ehn, words that I feel I’ve mastered.

38 katey 05.14.08 at 12:45 am

oh. my. :splode:

39 harlemgrrl 05.14.08 at 12:48 am

the baby feets… THE BABY FEETS!!!

40 shaz2 05.14.08 at 12:53 am

See, I knew someone would agree with me about the paws. :) Thanks, Harlemgrrl!

41 Gail 05.14.08 at 1:02 am

“We’re not doing anything….not a thing in the world! What? Not supposed to be playing with the blinds??? We haven’t been playing with them. No, we HAVEN’T. Just looking out the window, Mom.”

42 Pearl Ostroff 05.14.08 at 1:52 am

Regarding blinds. Just be sure you wind up the cords so cats can’t wind themselves up in them. My young cat totally destroyed my shower curtains when she was a kitten. She swung from them, climbed them and poked really big holes in them.

43 Theo 05.14.08 at 1:56 am

…”blaan”?

44 kittymom 05.14.08 at 2:23 am

THU-PLOOF, that’s all, THU-PLOOF

45 J. Bo 05.14.08 at 2:27 am

I’m a dog person, and this? Completely SLAYS me…

46 Totalee Puppy 05.14.08 at 2:32 am

No, my bebeh is NOT
wearing socks in the play area…The sign says NO
SHOES…We are going to play as long as we want, and you can Bleeeeen back
to the front counter and mind your own business!

47 Fegli 05.14.08 at 4:06 am

“Y hallo thar!”

48 Subhangi 05.14.08 at 5:19 am

SQUEEEEEEE!!! The behbeh kitteh’s posishe is too moishe!

49 Annie 05.14.08 at 6:07 am

…”blaan”?

is that any thing like Flan?

Bwahahahahahaha

50 Hon Glad 05.14.08 at 6:16 am

We’ve brought the joe blake to ave with the rosie lee, like.

51 Rhiannon 05.14.08 at 7:11 am

I love this picture, they sound like the British Airmen from ‘Allo ‘Allo (British comedy about the French occupation for anyone who doesn’t know!). They’re just adorable makes me miss having my kitties!!

52 Kimski 05.14.08 at 10:16 am

Teyz wery seriuz abut T.

(Getting lost in big cat’s wiskuz).

53 Kimski 05.14.08 at 11:15 am

The story of Bleen,

(as I understand it).
Once upon a time on cute overload peeps were so excited to nab the first post that they would exclaim “First”. This so frustrated the powers that be that they would remove it and put “Bleen” there instead. Then the little blighters started saying “Bleen” when they got in first. This continues to this day.

: )

54 jen 05.14.08 at 11:50 am

aww, pretty momma and cute leetle baybeh. look at his legs and feet position!

55 Theo 05.14.08 at 11:55 am

Kimski — well, it STARTED that way. A little. Maybe.

56 Babs 05.14.08 at 12:59 pm

So, Ms. Cat, are you going to use the Royal Doulton with hand-painted periwinkles? (looks at Behbeh) Perhaps not.

Weighing in on “bleen”: As it still manages to stick in Theo’s craw (no offense, Ed., I don’t actually know anything about your craw), I’d rather it were avoided altogether. Besides, it is soooooooo played. Lemon out.

57 ThreeCatNight 05.14.08 at 1:26 pm

Mamma kitteh:
“Has this ever happened to you?!”

58 Anne 05.14.08 at 2:19 pm

Thank you for this picture! I needed to laugh out loud this morning.

59 SarahR 05.14.08 at 2:28 pm

Kids these days, grumble grumble, in my day we knew how to use Google. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bleen

Bleen may be one of those things that’s funny for a while, then not funny, then repetition makes it funny again. Or it may not.

60 Theo 05.14.08 at 2:51 pm

I know about the Urban Dictionary version, SarahR. Also the Wikipedia version, and Grue, and those Russian crepes, etc. Maybe it found some obscure use in Mandarin or colloquial Swahili or even ancient Aramaic.

To me, in the context of Cute Overload, it means exactly bupkis.

61 tracyFlick 05.14.08 at 3:09 pm

It looks like it could be the cover of Time Magazine.

62 pyrit 05.14.08 at 3:11 pm

Bupkis from bupkis leaves bupkis, ya gotta have bupkis, if ya wanna bleen with meee!

63 Metz 05.14.08 at 3:15 pm

pyrit kwit pokin’ Theo, he’s liable to bleen all over teh place, then who’s gonna hafta clean up teh mess I asks u?

64 pyrit 05.14.08 at 3:17 pm

(sing it!)…”Keep bleening. Keep, keep bleening love. You cut me open and I keep bleening, keep, keep bleening love!”

65 Metz 05.14.08 at 3:24 pm

Now that’s just eeevil! Sending out bleenin’ earworms like that! Have you no bleeenin heart?

66 pyrit 05.14.08 at 3:26 pm

Aye, me hearty, eets thuh Curse of the Bleen Pearrrrl….

67 Metz 05.14.08 at 3:28 pm

Methinks Cap’n Theo has run for cover under our bleenin’ assult. I don’t think he’ll be bleenin’ to the bait.

68 Theo 05.14.08 at 3:29 pm

Metz, Pyrit, I’m so glad we’ve bleen able to share this moment…

69 pyrit 05.14.08 at 3:33 pm

Let’s wave at it as it bleens by….

70 Metz 05.14.08 at 3:34 pm

C’mon admit it, you know you’ve missed me! :-p

71 pyrit 05.14.08 at 3:46 pm

I missed you, um, Metz! Theo didn’t. Just me.

72 Metz 05.14.08 at 3:49 pm

I knew it! Twu Wuvz!

73 Theo 05.14.08 at 3:56 pm

[channelling Carly]

You’re so bleen,
You prob’ly think this post is about you
You’re so blee-e-e-een,
I bet you think this post is about you,
Don’t you?
Don’t you?

74 Metz 05.14.08 at 3:59 pm

:-D We’ve infected him wif teh bleen virus! And here all along I thought he was immune!

75 Theo 05.14.08 at 4:01 pm

Wasn’t there something about a kitten? Like, in a window blind?
Coulda sworn.

76 Metz 05.14.08 at 4:05 pm

(scrolls up) WOW! Lookit there! What cute kitties!!! I still totally swear they’re both looking at the camera person sayin’ “DO you MIND?”

77 pyrit 05.14.08 at 4:09 pm

Ahem, that would be, window *bleens*.

78 Theo 05.14.08 at 4:10 pm

D’oh.

79 Laura 05.14.08 at 5:16 pm

THE KITTEN LEGS!! And such nice round cheekage on both faces!

80 Kar 05.14.08 at 5:21 pm

Mama has the longest, prettiest whiskers I’ve seen in a long time. I wonder what they feel like when I stroke those muzzlepuffs?

Yes, I’d love a cuppa.

81 brinnann 05.14.08 at 6:24 pm

Pyrit, I’m glad I’m not the only one who hears the word “bleen” when that song plays. :) Seriously, my brain automatically translates it as it hits my eardrums. Then I get stuck with a bleenin’ earworm. XP

82 brinnann 05.14.08 at 6:40 pm

My personal fave, from Urban Dictionary:

“Finally, it is a fictional animal. Bleens are sightless, land dwelling invertebrates, so named for their call, which sounds rather like “Bleen.” The color of bleen comes from their opalescant, shifting, multi-hued bodies. They are unusual among invertibrates in that they are large, warm-blooded, and do not need to be kept wet, possessing a soft, non-posionous skin that is generally dry to the touch. They are approximately equal to humans in avarage mass, but undefineable in length or height as they are somewhat shapeshifting and ameoba-like.”

I think we need a picture, a mascot.

[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094761/ - Ed.]

83 Kris 05.14.08 at 7:57 pm

Wouldn’t that be the Bleeb?

84 Theo 05.14.08 at 8:03 pm

D’oh.

85 Metz 05.14.08 at 8:10 pm

Of course after clicking on that link and seeing that with the red tone reminded me of this:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080391/
All of which of course, has nothing whatsoever to do with adorable kittehs in window blinds. :-P

86 pyrit 05.14.08 at 8:12 pm

(shifty eyes at brinnann) In Ireland, and such, that *definition* would be called “blarney”; olde worlde for bleen.
Er, (bites lip, whispers) I don’t hear bleen in songs….but I’m sure you’re not alone! :-) Really! It only popped into my head in reply to Metz!

87 brinnann 05.14.08 at 8:23 pm

Pyrit, do you happen to be from Ireland!?1?!? Plz say yes! I’m hoping/planning to take a trip there soon, and would like a local’s advice.

88 Metz 05.14.08 at 8:25 pm

Oh an Pyrit, thank you ever so much for that particular earworm, that is my daughter’s favorite song rite now, and I’m gonna be hearing bleenin through the whole thing from now on.

89 Theo 05.14.08 at 8:35 pm

If you like bliña coladas
And getting caught in the rain…

90 Metz 05.14.08 at 8:37 pm

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo~~!!!!!!!!!!!

91 Theo 05.14.08 at 8:40 pm

MWHID

92 brinnann 05.14.08 at 8:43 pm

Am I the only one who hears MWHID in the voice of the baboon-shaman from the Lion King?

93 Metz 05.14.08 at 8:47 pm

(note to self-gotta remember, Theo ALWAYS wins)
[http://tinyurl.com/3oguvw - Ed.]

Brinn: Not until you mentioned it, now I do tho. LOL I am so easily led. :p

94 pyrit 05.14.08 at 8:52 pm

It’s, it’s, a bleenroom blitz! A bleen jubileen!
Metz, your daughter has good taste.
brinnann – Vox much?

95 brinnann 05.14.08 at 8:54 pm

Haven’t been voxing much lately. Why, have I missed something?

96 pyrit 05.14.08 at 9:06 pm

Well, yes, I mean no, oh, look for a pm from me, ok?

97 Gail 05.14.08 at 11:07 pm

Bleen you, bleenya colada song!! (sorry, can’t remember how to do a tilde!)

And, may I just say PASICKIE!!

98 Kimski 05.15.08 at 3:58 am

Yeah pasickie, I agree.

I went to the scary Urban Dictionary and now I know that if I’ve eaten between 6 and 7 apples, I’ve had bleenin’ too much!

99 Serena 05.15.08 at 5:59 am

Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. I can’t breathe. Someone resuscitate me. I can’t take teh cute.

100 brinnann 05.15.08 at 2:12 pm

Listen to the story of a man named Bleen;
Poor mountaneer barely kept his family clean.
Then one day he was slakin’ his thirst;
And up from the ground game a bubbling “FIRST!”
One, that is; numero uno; nawt sekond.
Bleenerly Hillbleenies, y’all!

101 Metz 05.15.08 at 2:19 pm

Brinn! BWAHAHAHAHHA!
Careful or Theo’ll git u 2!
(carefully avoids bleena colada landmine laid in my previous post)

102 Laura C. 05.15.08 at 4:45 pm

Omg that looks like It should be the TV guide advertisement for one of those dram mother/daughter Lifetime movies. It would be called something very solemn like “A Thorn from a Dying Rose” ,starring Thora Birch and Kirstie Allie, premiering Teusday at 8 with a special encore presentation at 12…

103 Theo 05.15.08 at 5:09 pm
104 brinnann 05.15.08 at 5:45 pm

*LOL* I saw that earlier today, Theo. Does it really make you mad, or only slightly irritate you? I know we all enjoy it, but if it’s that aweful for you, I’ll try to keep it to a minimum.

[Buy a bleen-free shirt for everybody in your family and I'll consider forgiveness... - Ed.]
;)

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