In another installment of the Cute Overload Distance Learning series, we take you now to a lecture at the Philosophy Department at New York University:
This… Is… Photobomb!
Ceiling Cat Is Watching You Ruminate
June 21, 2011 By
In another installment of the Cute Overload Distance Learning series, we take you now to a lecture at the Philosophy Department at New York University:
This… Is… Photobomb!
Awesome
Well Said!!!!!
Ceiling Cat approved!
that so reminds me of my cat – gone for the last ten years but loved to hang out (literally) over the computer screen and try to grab at anything that moved on the screen.
Philosophy, schmosophy. Play with meeee! Love this cat.
trivia:
Jean-Paul Sartre had a cat named Nothing.
just thought y’all would want to file that away somewhere for future caffeine-fueled existential diatribes…
(now back to your regularly scheduled programming.)
That’s fantastic! And in other “pets reflect their owners” trivia, President Andrew Jackson’s parrot had to be removed from Jackson’s funeral because it was swearing like a sailor.
That’s my kind of pet. I want a sailor parrot at my funeral to shock the natives.
My Uncle (joined Navy at time of Normandy Beach invasion, WWII) has a parrot who learned to be fairly salty.
When the phone rings, Gringo immediately says,
“Eh, lady, whaddaya want????” & sounds
highly annoyed & inconvenienced ….
WAIT is that an ACTUAL truth??
–Signed,
Existentialism R Us
sure is!
More importantly, is that an ACTUAL PHILOSOPHER? Seems like one, but how do we really know?
exactly.
No, it’s CATUAL truth! (o;
Jean-Paul Sartre wouldn’t have a cat named Nothing, at the most he would have had one called “Rien”, en bon français
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From what I’ve heard though, his cat wasn’t his to begin with, he and Simone de Beauvoir took care of Leonid, Coco Chanel’s cat, for a while and used to call him “porte-bonheur” (lucky charm). This is the cat that appears in most of Sartre’s pictures.
bu-bu–
Don’t you mean the pictures, are from Dali??
Sartre/ pictures = ????
*Appreciates the irony in everything not quite fitting symetrically in this discussion of existentialist angst & existentialist literature*
i bet this kitteh is named immanuel…cat
Yes, kitteh is clearly exercising her categorical imperative.
And offering a perfect demonstration of the difference between the realm of the visible and the realm of the intelligible.
@tracylee – Yes, now back to Star Wars – the original French version:
The following is provided for consideration, to
tracylee, Theresa, & any others, present, who
1- enjoy Craig Ferguson
2-appreciate philosophical “ruminations”
[ps: it's a KITTY, similar to the post/ pic's Kitty!!!]:
No mention of Henri and his ennui?
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M7ibPk37_U&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3%5D
so much for my embedding skills.
A most perceptive, fitting (and enjoyable) contribution to these philosophical considerations!!!
Peace to you and to Henri!!!
@Kar – you don’t need to bracket the url of the video with any tags.
(the above was intended
as a response to Kar’s Henri’s Ennui)
Okay, this explains it. I was wondering why my YouTube information had my Star Wars video being linked at CuteOverload.com. It didn’t seem particularly cute, what with all the existential angst. Thanks for linking it, though, Theresa. I appreciate it.
Sorry, this was meant for wuyizidi.
Cats are wonderful reminders of the need to check our priorities.
Cat time > hooman philosophyliphizing
…annnnnndddddd cut!
Thats a wrap, folks. We’ll clean it up in post-pro.
*I feel the need to provide this alternative version of your idea*
“And…………CAT!!!
That’s a wrap, folks,…” [etc.]
I am SO happy NTMTOM posted this! Saw it a few weeks ago and have adored it ever since. And, I do believe that kitteh knows eggZACtly what he is doing, too.
I saw it too and just loved it. My sweetie is a philosophy prof and showed it to me–we both roflmaoed.
marthava: Exactly! I can almost hear kitty saying “Enuffa dis – time for dinneau! Da can isn’t gonna open itself!”
And I was actually getting involved in his philosophical discusshion!
Kitty should add in its own.
No one expects the Spanish Catquistion!
Nie!
The cat who says “Nie”!
We demand a shrubery (of catnip of course)
YAY for shrubberies!!!!
Everyone who has ever lived with a cat has had this experience. Just TRY and do something–read a book, pay your bills–and before you know it, your cat is getting in the way. “Me! Me! Pay attention to ME!!”
. . . but personally, I think it would have been quite hilarious and a much better lecture if he had just continued on as if nothing was happening.
No, what is really funny about this one, is that he/she isn’t just focused on his/her Person– she sees the camera and the POSSIBLITY of a WORLD WIDE AUDIENCE.
…and thinking, “How do I show my butt to this thing?”
Ironically, that’s why Laurence Olivier said that actors love acting:
ME ME ME ME ME …
Rene DesCat declares “I slink, therefore I am… in your video.”
This just made my day! I love eet.
There’s a Schrodinger joke to be made here; I just know it.
Stupid human thinks he’s the center of the universe. But this is actually the cat’s video. An international criminal who makes regular recordings from his “cave” to taunt his pursuers, this is just the latest installment of his series “Schrodinger’s Cat – Wanted Dead and Alive.”
Schrödinger’s Cat both interrupts and doesn’t interrupt your presentation at the same time.
Aww. I was a philosophy major. Two of our cats are named Timaeus (Platonic dialogue about creation of the world) & Xanthippe (Socrates’ “shrewish” wife).
Shrewish? You try living with a man who forgets to bring home the eggs and milk because he was hanging out in the agora questioning gorgeous young men about Virtue and the Good all the time….
Funny, she didn’t look shrewish.
GROAN
Obviously holy because God loves it. What’s not to love?!
Or rather, its holey because the CAT loves it.
Darwinian, Dawkinsian, Dennetian feline intervenes to interrupt god talk.
It’s cute how the guy tries to ignore the cat and keep talking, and then just can’t continue and cracks up.
This video is a perfect example of just how funny cats can be. I just don’t understand why so many people don’t like them. To know them is to…well, you know!
Burst out laughing at my desk.
P.S. Guy’s kind of cute, too.
ooh – is this suitable for an entry in the Men of C.O. calendar?!
Yessssss!
Love, love, LOVE the hoovertext.
Sorry for the over used term But it really applies here……………………..
That’s the mother of all photo bombs !!!!
Another silly hooman philosophy professor’s dissertation proven wrong. There is only one god and She is a Cat. Hoomans are merely playthings to be toyed with at every chance.
But my cat tells me I have free will.
S/he lies!!
BTW, the man is quite cute as well. Another one for the Men of CO calendar??
whoops – shoulda scrolled – GMTA, as usual ’round these parts
Well, yeah, you have HER free will…….
Please, it’s just soft determinism.
You THINK that you have free will. Yet everymorning you open a fresh can of tuna even though you still have most of yesterday’s in the frigerater…
Of course you have free will. It just happens to be your will to do exactly as the Cat commands.
Yeah, my arse.
Bast has spoken, your argument is invalid.
“Well, I have a kitty, SO YOU ARE WRONG.”
I can’t believe no one has yet pointed out that the the kitteh is “ready for my closeup!” !!
PS: It’s the UPSIDE-DOWNNESS of this kitty that just puts it all over the top.
Yup, I agree with this; good point, Th
If you ever need to find a cat, just pretend to be engrossed in something else and they’ll come running.
“I’ll take ‘Accurate Assessments’, for $200, Alex!!!111
)
Who knew God was such a pussycat?
The Men of C.O.–the academic version. He’s cute and the cat ain’t so bad either. Made my day.
He’s nerdy/cute! His resigned smile when the ceiling cat appears is very charming.
I believe he is part of the band Mobile Wash Unit, a collective of philo profs/grad students in NYC. Great sound: http://www.myspace.com/mobilewashunit
ps: I love the comments in this thread. Who knew the Cute Overload community was such an erudite crowd?!
There’s a 10-cent word!
Photobombing cat is photobombing.
That made my day.
mine too.
Ah- I know this feeling as I just finished up my dissertation with much help from many kittehs who didn’t appreciate the seriousness of the work
And I teach… hmm…..would students be more awake for English courses if I let my cats interrupt me during class??? I can pre-record lectures…. I’m liking this idea!!!
(please excuse any poor wording… very tired. And kitty editors are all retired for the evening. Thank you!)
Best of luck with dissertations and kitties!!!
Ahhh yes. When I was in grad school, I always referred to my Stinky cat as “my research assistant.” He was a terrible research assistant.
heehee. Thanks!
Kittehs seem to be generally unimpressed with philosophical ruminating and post-grad degrees.
They are generally unimpressed with anything, with the possible exceptions of chameleons running past; and paper bags or empty boxes left on the floor …..
I have a great photo of my cat Rumpelteazer sitting on top of my computer screen with her paw handing down in front. I used to tell everyone one she wrote my papers for me. Alas, that was long before digital photography, but maybe I’ll try to scan in into the computer one day…
Oops. That’s supposed to read “hanging.” Freudian slip?
Even the cat knows that he is possibly the most boring man on the planet !
Yes, it occured to me he was getting in the camera to say “See what I put up with day and night?”
“Hey, whatcha doing there!”
Glad he kept the video so we could all see it
Cat: “Indeed.”
“Wholly” entertaining!
Cat says “I iz God!”
it’s about the kittiness of an object.
Leave to a cat to “keep it real”…
If my courses had come with more cats, I might have bothered to finish college.
Amen
As the cat looks over the camera..he/she is thinking “if I turn this off, will he still continue talking?”
As the cat looks over the camera he/she is thinking “if I turns this off, will he quit talking?”
sorry for the duplicate. it appeared as if it wasn’t there.
That’s my friend Andy!!
Best moral-philosophy vid EVAR.
I love how he’s talking away, probably practicing a lecture to give to a class, and he’s so used to his cat that it takes him a minute to realize it’s totally in the vid. And then he can’t resist teh cute, and pets it. Aw.
The philosopher Schopenhauer had a cat, which he named Atma (‘world-soul’)
Schopenhauer is known for being a pessimist (somewhat unusual among philosophers). Not sure how he could have a cat and still feel bad about life.
I was almost asleep from boredom. Then kitty face rescued me!
LOL
I’m actually crying for laughing so hard
CO is pretty good at that
Cats are HOLY! This cat is trying to tell you she/he has the answer to life’s deepest questions. Listen to the wise one.
So, are we talking Catalai Lama? :>)
I was going to start seminary this fall to study theology and certain philosophical issues. Now I needn’t bother, as all my questions have been answered.
Cat is my co-pilot!
Why was the cat interrupted? It was obviously about to say something very profound and significant, you hacks.