… J. Whizzington Pepperpoodle, billionaire inventor of the nose hair curling iron. The jubilant nonagenarian attended a private birthday celebration at his 127-room, 20,000-acre summer home, surrounded by family, who assisted with the candles.
And a Happy 92nd Birthday To…
March 15, 2011 By
NTMTOM,
My sister and I agree, you need help or you need to help US!! Too MUCH!!
*whispers* (Not just you and your sister.)
I love the necktie.
what a cutie! love the tie; very distinguished.
Love the candles too. Very extinguished. Eventually.
And I thought my cats were spoiled! sheesh
Yeah, you may need to work on those neglection issues. There’s clearly a whole new standard afoot.
Which is why I’m not letting my two see this! They expect too much already!
LOL!! I’d actually like to meet these reading kitties!
Either they’re celebrating some obscure holiday called “Bus Day”, or someone is temporarily short a front tooth or two.
That’s unkind
The Japanese have great difficulty pronouncing the ‘th’ dipthong. Actually it’s a quite uncommon sound in many languages, English is somewhat rare to have it.
Have to agree. It was the most precious thing to hear them sing it!
I love the word ‘dipthong’
Emphatically agree.
Me too, although “th” isn’t a dipthong, it’s a dental fricative (another awesome word). Dipthongs are always vowel sounds.
The Dutch can’t do the “th” either. They’d be singing “Happy Burt-day”.
The “th” isn’t a dipthong, it’s a fricative.
A dipthong has to do with vowels. It’s when a vowel has “two sounds”. Look at the word “sound”, for instance. The “ou” is pronounced “aoo”.
/phonetics nerd
Actually it’s spelled dipHthong.
yeah, its diphthong. A dipthong is an itsy bitsy teeny weeny bikini bottom.
DH is of Dutch extraction. Sometimes he pronounces the ‘th’ as an ‘s’ or a ‘z’!
eg Thistle =sissle, though = zough
aw!
Gotta agree with ya.
I think Papa’s cute and all, but the Bus Day singing is toe-curling cute! We were forced to watch it multiple times for the song alone. It SOOOO reminded me of “Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show”. You HAVE TO watch it. You will be hooked on Keiko and I promise that you WILL be singing the tune tomorrow, much to the delight (or chagrin) of your friends and family.
Is there anything cuter than the cute-loving Japanese?!
mambear:
1) You’re entirely correct, about the “Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show”!!
2) I will suggest one contender/ competition for cuteness with the cute-loving Japanese … that wonderful military helmet-wearin’ Micro Hermit Crab, from last week … How does one propose marriage to a H. Crab???
And also “birthday” has long been adopted to Katakana (character set often used for words with foreign origin) Japanese “ba-su dei” so it is technically already a Japanese word without the “th” sound to start with.
right! like “sumisu” = Smith (especially because you drop the last vowel, so it comes out s’MISS)
I like Bus Day. Support Public Transportation!
ROTFL!! I somehow missed all these “bus-day” references here.
LOL!! You guys are too cute!
oops; my intention was that my smileyface should have
shown up, under the Honorable Theresa’s
“Public Transportation” comment ….
*blushes*
Actually, how many languages pronounce “th” like we do in English? I’m no omniglot, but I can’t think of any . . . so maybe *we’re* pronouncing it wrong!
Plus, I can sing exactly zero songs in Japanese. Big points for this version.
Ah, the voiceless dental fricative. Does Castilian Spanish count? Technically it’s not a “th” sound like we use, but an “s.” I would also think that Greek would have it, since the sound is represented by the letter theta in the IPA. But since I don’t speak it, I can’t confirm.
Is he a Pisces?
LOL!!!
I want to eat that whole cake in one sitting.
Phhfftt! Honey, I had that cake and ate it in one minute. Oh amateurs.
I can’t get over how the cat’s sitting like that!
well, if he didn’t have diabeetus before nomming that cake…
LOL!!!! Yep, it’s Wilford Brimley allright.
Hahaha that’s exactly what I was thinking! I’m like omg that cat is going to have DIA-BEETUS
Re-post of one of my all-time faves! I love the giggling girls!
It’s good to see that Papa is doing okay despite the earthquake.
It’s Korin from “Dragonball”!
First off, the asthmatic should not be blowing out the candles, the cake isn’t something the kitty can eat, and he looks pretty clueless. But he is pretty damn cute, and awfully agreeable.
How do you know she’s asthmatic? lol.
Papa is seriously underwhelmed!
The poor kitty has no idea what’s going on, true, but I don’t think the cake itself is for him. That’s for his guests. And did you see his feet?! Floofy Feet!!
You sure this isn’t Wilfred Brimley?
I’m not. But “Wilford” is certainly well-behaved and extremely tolerant of hoomans.
That’s azackly who this is! Who could possibly fail to recognize?!
Hey, you blew out my candles, now I don’t get a wish.
Hilarious.
I b’lieve this guy learned all he knows about Indignant Disapproval, from
Foghorn Leghorn (see below)
http://www.melaman2.com/cartoons/looney/0-foghorn/foghorn-03.jpg
Still one of my favorite videos:D
That kitteh looks so confused and full of disapproval at the same time.
“Stop blowing in my direction, yer setting off me arthritis!”
(Quoting my favorite Cheez-It commercial)
“Nice tie, sir…is that a Windsor knot?”
Haha. “What do you call a cheese that isn’t yours?” “Nacho cheese!”
“Knock, knock” “Who’s th–?” “The interrupting cheese!”
I love the immature cheese!
I go into deep mourning when the cheese “matures.”
I think the kitteh is terrified that the flames will set his fluffy fur on fire.
Would love to hear what his purr sounds like in Japanese.
Awesome hovertext.
I wonder if that s-u-weet armchair was one of Pepper’s gifts.
Love the pic but my first thought was “Why did someone dress a cat like a Sumo wrestler?”
No, they have the neckties around their crotches, right?
But “dear Papa?” Did they call him Papa as a wee kitten? What foresight.
It’s the opposite of naming the cutie-pie kitten “Fluffikins” and having him grow up to be a battle-scarred badass (probably in reaction to being named Fluffikins).
Someone get those delightful kids some inhalers!
Another NTMTOM tour de force.
PS Doesn’t he resemble Onion founder T. Herman Zweibel?
http://www.theonion.com/articles/t-herman-zweibel-in-memoriam,16401/
What a fatty! Love the girth.
)
*BEST use of a nifty noun this week* (“girth”)
Have we heard from Winston the Japanese superstar cat since the quake/tsunami/nuke meltdown??
And what about Maru? Doesn’t he (she?) and the humans reside in Japan?
I don’t know about Winston, but Maru’s owner has posted that he and kitteh are both safe.
I believe that Winston is American.
Speaking of Japanimal concern. I donated here:
http://japanearthquakeanimalrelief.chipin.com/japan-earthquake-animal-rescue-and-support
Well preserved? Hell, he’s channeling Wilfred Brimley!
That cake is probably 95% oatmeal.
That’s a really big fluffy kitty. Look at those feet, he’s huge! Want to snuggle him.
“Enough with the bad singing. Bring me my Tuna Fish Toro Cake!
Happy Bus Day, Papa Brimley!
That cat CANNOT BELIEVE those children are stealing his wish! and on his Birthday too
I must say, I am a much more efficient candle blower. And the kitteh is as cute and disgruntled as ever.
I think the children are blowing out the candles from off-camera so it will look like Papa is doing it.
Children?
They sound more like late teens or young adults too me.
And the girl isn’t Asthmatic, she’s just laughing while trying to blow. Have you ever tried to do anything while laughing uncontrollably?
The Cat is very cute! The tie is adorable.
I think the grumpy looking cat is planning his revenge for making him look daft. You see how he looks from side to side as if deciding who will feel his wrath first!
Thought they were singing “Happy Mouseday to You.” OK, that’s not a real song, but he probably would have been a lot more receptive if they put a mouse in front of him instead of a cake.
Maybe they’ll get it right on his next mouseday.
I especially like the way he suddenly becomes very mildly aware that the candles are blown out and he almost shows a bit of ‘Is it time for cake?!” about him, for a second.
How could they resist petting his soft little furry head? He is so fluffity!
shortly after this was made, Papa Wilford wrote his caretakers out of his will.
This comment can-not go unappreciated. LOL!!
http://cuteoverload.com/2010/08/22/birthday-cat-is-not-impressed/
?
My 2.5yo daughter’s immediate response: “He’s a very big kitty!”