The piano is my forte, and I love to lie down in it,
It suits my laid-back at-etude, I don’t care how you spinet.
When I’m keyed up, can’t stay upright, life’s tempo gets too taxing,
I lie for just a minuet, and presto! I’m relaxing.
I’m never too Bizet to take a nap where notes are rolling,
When melodies float like the breeze, this console’s quite consoling.
So play whatever song you like; Chopsticks to Clair de Lune-a,
For where there’s a piano, I expect piano tuna.
We all octave a kitty like that, Kristina V.
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Our dear departed Tibby was a piano cat. When she walked up and down the keyboard, her feet were exactly an octave apart.
What? You’re not going to hyperlink Chopsticks to the video of Maru (?) being fed with chopsticks?!
Sing us a song, You’re the Piano Cat,
Sing us a song tonight,
Well we’re all in the mood for a melody,
And you’ve got us meowin’ alright.
NTMTOM you’ve outdone yourself. Marry me?
*applause*
Bravo NTMTOM!
Kitten thinks no one will find him while he’s haydn in the piano. It’s OK, kitteh, I’ve got your bach.
Nicely versified, NTMTOM. Now. . . Play him off, Piano Cat! (Am I really the first one to post this? Wow! I’m Mr. Pop Culture Reference!)
love the reflection.
@n. fritz CO posted the chopsticks cat long before I saw it on several other websites.
In the summertime when my hummingbird feeders are active outside my music room windows I constantly have to clean kitty pawprints off the lid of my piano, but he doesn’t get in it. Hmmm, maybe it would sound better if he did get in it and do some kitty tuning!
Very lovely, NTMTOM.
Kittykye: I love it when people burst into song like you just did!
Excellent work NTMTOM!!!!
As if the ’spinet’ comment wasn’t brilliant enough, that hovertext killed me. I think we need a shot of pantaloons for it though.
LOL. My head just asploded from pun overload!!
I had two cats… Though they could never play the piano quite like that…
@QoD- I do too.
The first song I learned on the piano when I was a wee one was
“Tuna Fish, Tuna Fish Sing a song of Tuna Fish, it’s my favorite dishy-dishy-dish”
I would never cease to sing it.
“Who? Franz Liszt? Never heard of him. Wrong number.”
OMG!!! That cat looks just like my old cat!!!
catloveschanel: Ha-ha! I’ve never heard of that song but it sounds cool! One of the first songs I learned on the piano was called, (and I’m probably butchering the spelling of this) Kliener Valtz. (Dad had been stationed to Germany at the time).
Ok, maybe i am weird but kitteh reminds me of those ladies that sing on top of pianos.
Love the paw!
*sneaks up and snerfs kitteh in the belleh*
*sneezes uncontrollably*
Excellent rhyming NOMTOM! For 31 years it’s been just the Fabulous Baker Boys… but times change. Put the kitteh in a red dress and call her Suzie Diamond!
Very fine versification.
::bows to NTMTOM:: we’re not worthy! we’re not worthy!
Aww, he looks like our dearly departed Tip Toe (RIP from FIP). Tip Toe was not a piano cat (mostly because we don’t have a piano), but he was a “sleep on your face” cat.
NTMTOM is not right. Thank goodness.
1: Kittykye: Very, very nice!!
2: Suzanne: Join the long line of CO proposers…. (;) )
3: QoD: email in yer inbox ….
Signed,
Fuzzy Feline CUTENESS REIGNS SUPREME !!
@ Suzanne: that was supposed to go
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(Hopefully, I typed it correctly this time????)
Bravo NTMTOM! I’d hire you to write all my copy, but I’m baroque.
Thanks Resrie!
In ur piano, tunin ur chords.
I am laughing heartily at all the puns in this thread…. yet slightly forlorn that I missed my opportunity to propose to NTMTOM.
oooooooooooooohh AD — yet AGAIN you slay us all !!!
OOFFF ! I EM DAID.
AD for Ultimate UberLady of the Universe!!
(That will release Meg from the tedious sub-projects of Cuteness!)
Bwahahaha! I lost count of the puns in the actual post (and hover), then you all start piling ‘em on in the comments.
BWAHAHAHAHA!
OMG NTMTOM, I hate you.* That was a pun spree worthy of my boyfriend, who isn’t stopped by anything, including an expression of deep existential (is that an oxymoron?) suffering and a loud sigh.
*notrly
Are you sure this isn’t Pun Overload????
Excellent musical puns! I love it!
@ShelleyTambo: Tip Toe is an awesome name for a cat!
NTMTOM: pure genius.
All Pianos should have a perfect kitty shapped spot in them for a kitty naping spot.
*giggle* More puns in the url.
@catloveschanel…everybody loves it so, from New York to Kokomo!
[Relevant linkage added. Because I had to.
- Ed.]
MissKitty, you can still propose. I haven’t seen him accept one on here yet, though. NOMTOM leaves a trail of broken hearts wherever he prose…
[Relevant linkage added. Because I cannot be stopped.
- Ed.]
[Actually, I leave a trail of candy wrappers and orange Cheetos dust, but I do appreciate all the kind thoughts. -- Mike
]
[Ed.] is teh awesome.
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- Ed.]
Best. Rollover. Text. EVAR!!!!1!1!
I was just happy to see the Kitty on the Keys reference! My hubby once ate an apple out of her cleavage!
@ Space Cowgirl:
Speaking from difficult academic experience, I personally feel entirely cum’fa’ble affirming that Existentialism IS INDEED DEEP. If you wish to share my experience, please take the following steps:
1)Take all the French coursework avail in a fairly academic high school
2) Declare a French major for your college degree.
3) After you complete all necessary undergraduate French courses in college, sign up for your first course *TAUGHT IN FRENCH LECTURE* in “French Existentialist Authors & Literature”.
Signed,
(Deep, angst-filled, Existentialist Sigh)
Not. Even. Kidding.
@260Oakley – Well played.
And best hover text ever, NTMTOM.
That’s too funny! My cat looks like a miniature version of this one…and I have a picture where my cat is also playing the “piano” – http://picasaweb.google.com/debbieleebee/MyNewHome#5360943300035030722
~Debbie
Not That Mike, I have a whole new respect for you.
*standing ovation*
Nyota, will you still respect him in the morning?
It’s Don Piano!!!
[Good grief! IN THE FLESH!!
...er, floof 
- Ed.]
Now we need a picture of a dog in a piano so we can make some Offenbach puns . . . .
This post is brilliant. NTMTOM, there are many ahead of me in line to marry you (and anyway I’m currently married so that complicates things) but I would be content merely to shake your hand, sir. I am impressed. And I am also laughing.
@ Juno: Will this do?
http://www.hereinreality.com/funnystuff/animalpics/pianodog.jpg
Or do you need actual photographic image?
Signed,
Your Obedient (Research) Servant.
This kitty is music to my ears and brings a song to my heart.
NTMTOM (Ah’m just too tie-tie ta think of anything.)
NOMTOM’s verse has emptied my poor little brain of any chance of my having a clever comment. Except: “You can’t touch this”!
NTMTOM, I bow to a past master of the pun.
NTMTOM–STELLAR! I grovel before your incomparable wordsmithing! I won’t bother to propose marriage, as I feel sure you have a plethora of young svelte co-eds camped outside your door, but might I interest you in a wild fling with a middle-aged, overweight, but very adoring fan? I’ll rub your…feet while you compose and recite dirty limericks, eh?
@Juno, or the HoundenTenor who sings the cantata Wachet Arf.
Ok everybody already took my best comments… EXCEPT… You Can Tune A Piano, But You Can’t Tuna Fish!
Bravo, NTMTOM! Author! Author!
NTMTOM, the hovertext killed me.
I am ded.
that poem was brilliant!
Okay…while Suzanne is maybe the first to post a marriage proposal here… you now have a rival for your affections. After you check her out, please don’t overlook me.
That’s a very dangerous spot kitty!
@beardediris: “Tip Toe” was the name he was given at the shelter, and it fit so well that we kept it. He was such a happy cat and kneaded so much that he rarely had a full paw on the floor.
GIGGLE
The look on that kitty’s face is “Touch those keys and you will be in BIG trouble.” 
Brilliant, NTMTOM. I’ll be bach when I cool orff.
I especially love how the kitteh is color-coordinated with piano keys. Or could it be that piano keys were inspired by a kitteh?
NTMTOM, could you BE any more clever?
(Answer: No.)
[None more clever.
- Ed.]
Somebody is a musician trolling the streets as an IT dude.
LOVED IT.
“Piano Cat” after the recital….just hangin’ out with the soprano…
NOMTOM, niiiiiiiiiice. You are a catch, let me tell you.
Wonderful punning, Peeps of mine.
OMG Saffron! You had the same Schaumer Piano Book!
@ resriechan #45: I agree that life is filled with existential dilemmas, but why on earth would you subject yourself to that? Camus give me one good reason why anyone would do that
@ resriechan #45: Sorry, I’d meant to add that I Kant think of a good reason for that kind of self-inflicted torture.
Oh, the puns! Thx, everyone for makin my day a whole lot funnier/punnier!
@NTMTOM: I’m in line for your affeck-shuns, so I’ll just step over here to the Bach of the line. You are just too Kuhlau to be true! Altho I’m mebbe a little old to be included in the harem which is follerin you around. I’m just a-Czerny’ing with more composers, but I’d better be Chopin this short, fer now. *Emmberrann scurries to end of line.*
NTMTOM – I am again humbled by your impeccable metre/meter (depending what side of the border you live on)
MORE PLEASE!
Brilliant!
I’m in pun ecstasy right now. This was brilliant.
In response, @ Wordgirl (#’s 73 & 74)
Way-ul…tuh be poifectly blunt: I di-unt know enny bedder. I merely was pretty handy with getting A’s in Literature & Vocab tests en Anglais & so …..
Now I wish that there had been someone nearby, yelling “Don’t go *through that DOOR* !!!!”
(Silver Lining: Evidently I stumbled through this course, without entirely falling off the cliff, cuz’ they did give me a sheet of onionskin with the words “B.A.” & “French” on it, a couple of years later. Maybe I managed to sneak a “C” on the course somehow …)