Today, we’re stress-testing a next-generation steam release valve cover on the model 259X Multi-Button Thingus-Grobble. As always, our testing team consists of a designated opener and closer, as required by union rules.
Meanwhile, at the Acme Unspecified Purpose Plastic Lid Testing Labs…
August 30, 2011 By
Pretty good testering, I’d say.
This is so cute but i can just see at three in the morning while he is trying to sleep out of the silence comes plunk…..plunk…..plunk……….plunk lol well he taught her how to do it so its his fault lol
You just KNOW that if that cat could talk and you said “to-MAY-to,” he would respond, “to-MAH-to.” Just to be contrary. Cuz that’s what cats do, God bless ‘em.
In legal terms, that’s an open-and-shut case…
I’d say it’s an open-and-shut-and-open-and-shut-and-open-and-shut …
this ^
i could do this all day.
ambidextrously.
BUT it wouldn’t be quite as delightfully FUN !!11!!!
what a pretty kitty. so halpful too.
I love the look the cat gives the person at the end . I could just hear the kitteh
say …..” Really ?” ……..REALLY ?
*snerk*
And then the cat said “Okay, I’m bored.”
OMG Mudbug.. Spot on.. :falls out of her chair giggling hysterically:
“FINE! If you will not let me keep it closed I will open it and bite it off!”
Such a cute kitty c:
Ahh! The old “wabbit season/duck season” stratagem….
That is win!
I love this cat. Not only pretty but smart cookie too.
Just had to post it!
“You’rrrre dethpicable.”
Great mindless chuckle for my morning. Kitty is gorgeous too!
Sooo gorgeous! I love those shapely legs too.
Reminds me of our feral cat, Calypso, who is oh so brilliant and whom I’m in love with. Wish we could have her.
Doesn’t IKEA stores usually have small demo’s how they stress test their furniture by repeated opening and closing drawers, or having some sort of machine mashing pillows or fabrics and such? IKEA needz moar kittehs!
Yes, and it is documented that they use kittehs to do this….
That is the best movie I have ever seen.
I agree
Never saw this before, but it’s purrfect!
me too!! me too!!!
I just love that film/video of the Ikea kitties.
Ikea…that would be a great name of a kitty.
That ad made me shed a tear every time it was on tv. That whole “happy inside” tagline associated with these curiously frolicking and contentedly sleeping kitties. It just makes me so happy inside. The kitten getting its head stuck, the lone cat having an adventure in the huge storage room, the sphynx playing with those tags, kittens crawling around in a bed full of plushy toys, that last cat tucked up in bed, sleepily closing its eyes.
I swear, if I worked in advertising, my proposal for every client would be “RELEASE CATS INTO YOUR STORE AND FILM IT”. Done and done.
AAAW
Yeah, it’s annoying! Toooo much noise.
What? 100 kittehs not enough for you?
http://youtu.be/Z7vXP3tHzhA
If IKEA had any more kittehs they would have a stampede.
Gee, I posted the linky to the IKEA commercial and got put in the mod lounge.
Does anyone have a Diet Peach Snapple and a brownie I can enjoy while waiting? 
I think there are some in the fridge…..
The IKEA cat catalog.
http://ikeacat-alogue.co.uk/
Love all the little paw prints that mark products “Kitty Tested. Kitty Approved.”
Dept. of Redundancy Dept.
That is such a beautiful cat that I don’t have anything funny to say.
I feel much the same. Gorgeous kitteh!!
I would work on a factory production line as an opener, for hours every day, for no pay, and working overtime too, if I had a patented KittyCloser working as my partner.
truth that!
…..aaaaaaaaaaaand somebody somewhere in Asia (I’m not skilled at distinguishing among Japanese/ Chinese/ Korean/ other styles of text ) …..
has AGAIN handed us ‘Mericuns, our collective hats.
This kitteh seems quite emphatic, perhaps even smug, about his prompt, efficient job performance.
CUTE CUTE CUTE CUTE CUTE CUTE CUTE CUTE CUTE CUTE CUTE
(and also pretty adorable too)
Handed us our “hats”? Is that what you call it?
Well, some people wear theirs like hats…
*double snerk*
Hence the expression “a**hats”?
Japan. The text on the video’s Japanese, and that’s definitely katakana on the machine’s “sutaato” button.
*Sigh* I miss Japan!
I like too how the cat gives himself a little facial towards the end–good for the whiskers!!!
(Opens thingy)
Cat: “It must be closed.” (snap)
(Opens thingy)
Cat: “It must be closed.” (snap)
(Opens thingy)
Cat: “It must be closed.” (snap)
(Opens thingy)
Cat: “It must be closed.” (snap)
(Leaves thingy closed)
Cat: “It must be whichever it is not that is which you want it to be… at… thing… dammit…”
hahahaha!
Skippymom! You survived!
We survived unscathed. A little rain, some high winds, and no electricity from Sunday afternoon to sometime Monday. The dead tree with the power lines tangled in its branches didn’t fall on the roof. And the stray cat I’ve been feeding, who hadn’t been seen for a week, showed up for dinner last night looking fine. So all is well, and thank you for your thoughts.
Have we gotten updates from any other COers who were affected by the storm?
I am so glad to hear from you, skippymom
I would also like to add that my email address will be changing and I hope to not have any trouble emailing you all at the CO group 
ceejoe, I replied to you, but I forgot to use the moderation-proof spelling of a certain word. If you pop into the lounge, I’ll tell you about it in person over a cocktail.
We’re fine, thanks, but I’m currently serving two terms in mod.
You naughty girl!
That’s me!
Glad to hear you and the kittehs (including the stray – bless your heart!) are all ok. I don’t think we’ve seen anything from Theresa yet. Maybe she’s still without power…
heh heh. so true.
So many reasons to love this, not the least of which is the beautiful ambidextrous and oppositional kitty. It reminds me of two things: 1) the viral video of that little machine that exists solely to turn itself off (maybe someone more intertubes–savvy than myself will post it) and 2) being with people who have autism, many of whom are quite insistent that doors be closed or light switches be off or curtains be open, etc.
Here you go Juno!
http://youtu.be/Ixx92NkO78w
Thanks, EmilouBlue! That’s actually MUCH cooler than the one I’ve seen before, which was not made out of Legos.
I don’t know why, but that silly Lego contraption made me bust out laughing! Must share with engineer hubby tonight so he can make me one.
I like the revenge of the most pointless machine, myself.
Well, just when you think you’ve seen it all . . . . I had NO idea there were so many of these things.
Dueling useless machines!
http://youtu.be/UkgoSOSGrx4
I have always contended that cats are basically autistic. Or that people who have autism are basically cat-like. Discuss.
There’s a set of photo-picture books for kids/families: one is ALL PUPPIES HAVE ADHD and the other is ALL CATS HAVE ASPERGER’S.
I read ALL CATS HAVE ASPERGER’S carefully, and decided I either have Asperger’s, or I am a cat. Leaning toward “I am a cat” as a more likely explanation. http://dft.ba/-TAh
I think we’re going to have some union trouble here. At the end, the closer opened something and the opener closed something! That’s NOT allowed under the contract!
I had the same thought! Kitteh’s contract is in danger.
‘Sokay, I just heard from the head of the local A.F.L-C.I.O(Affiliated Furry League-Closer and Independent Openers), turns out kitteh is a card carrying member for the group! Whew!
Stoopid human, doesn’t realise the steam is getting out if the lid is open. Steam inside = warmth = good for kitty ‘tocks. (whateverthatthingis…oo, just checked the youtube description, it’s a stove of some sort?)
I just want to say that it is inspiring to see a cat who takes work so seriously.
*snort* You said “cat” and “work” in the same sentence!
I don’t know why but I just laughed so hard at that video that my cat ran off because she was afraid something was wrong with Mummy.
Prolly thought you were going to put him/her to work.
I love that behavior! At home I’m always telling myself jokes and laughing crazily until my cats start looking at me with “concerned” expressions on their faces.
My Cinder is always under the impression that “Get the heck out of Dodge” is the best plan at that point.
Her. Sorry ’bout that.
mesmerizing, magnificent, marshmallow colored kitteh! So regal!!
Haha! That is so cute! Open-shut-open-shut all day long!
I’m glad my work place upgrade the Mozilla browser, now I can see videos at work! I lol’d when the kitteh opened the release valve…i hope no one noticed or they may uninstall mah Mozillaz…..!
My first thought was “I want to snuggle in that furry tummy” followed by “those earsies need kissing and nibbling” — only then was I able to pay attention to the activity.What a gorgeous, brilliant kitty! He even has a show named after him, “The Closer” is on every Monday night. Now that I know he’s the star, I’ll make sure I don’t miss any episodes.
Kitteh says: “You knows all dese here jobs is gonna be done by ro-butts some day, kid. I’m just puttings in my time til retirement.”
You just KNOW he plays with that while his human is gone. Probably operates all the other buttons efficiently too. On every machine in the house.
Including the expresso/cappaccino machine the hoomins leave the instruction book beside b/c it is so complex. Lol.
OOH! I just noticed–Why, yes, I did watch it again, why do you ask?–that kitty has one green, and one blue eye! He is special in so many ways.
He is likely to be deaf, then. Our cats’ shelter had a similar cat adopted last winter. His name was Cotton Ball and he had been surviving out in the streets even though he couldn’t hear a thing. Fortunately he found a nice home.
cats are strange.
My cats resemble that remark.
Mine do, as well. Most strongly.
People are strange too….according to the Lizard King.
…but cats are even stranger!
I’ve never thought Jim looked like a “Lizard”-anything. He was so beautiful, when I look at him I imagine this is what a fallen angel must look like.
This really, really cracked me up and also really reminded me of my cat, who continuosly makes me open and shut doors for him. If he’s outside he wants to be inside, if inside he wants to be outside.
This is the true depiction of ailurophilosophy: if I’m out, I want to be in; if I’m in I want to be out. It is hardwired into the infelinitenous of cat brainometry, and they cannot, I say, can Not resist the temptation to behave thusly when confronted with the half-open, or alternatively, half-closed door. .
I just want to say I love the word “ailurophilosophy.”
“thusly” is pretty good too.
‘brainometry’ does it for me.
There is currently a trend going on at work in which managers and team leads are putting up Post-It sticky notes outside their cubicles with words written on them. These words are, apparently, the Word of the Day that they are trying to keep in mind or embody for that day. Words like “Helpful,” “Grateful,” “Accommodating,” and so forth.
I want to put random words up at my cubicle, too, but I want to choose really obscure words that will make everyone scratch their heads. (Wouldn’t faze this crowd at all, though!)
‘Cause I’m contrary that way.
They just do it to prove that they can make us do whatever they want.
Face it, they OWN us!
“I’m always on the wrong side of every door.”
cats abhor a closed door…
I watched my DVD of “Cats” not too long ago, and hubby sat down and watched most of it with me. I explained how the songs are based upon poems which are stories about various cats (he said at one point, “So let me get this straight: they’re humans dressed up as cats, and…why?”).
Eventually I started comparing them to OUR cats. The Rum Tum Tugger is definitely Philo.
That kitty looked p.o.’d at the end!
I laughed the entire 1:09. Thank you!! Needed that.
dear god, i only wish that everything could be so cute
ps i’m a dude
Is that maybe a RICE COOKER? I thought I saw a tiny puff o’ steam the second time around. If it’s warm, that would explain its attractiveness as a Cat Perch.
Looks like a humidifer to me. Can’t be a rice cooker b/c the release valve shouldn’t/wouldn’t open so easily, would burn your skin if it did.
Hay guise, I am Ok, but no internets for the moment xcept on my blackberry,which is stinking hard to type on! Hope to be back with you all very soon! Oxoxox
YaY!! Thank you for letting us know, Theresa!
Helloo-oo-oo there Theresa. Glad to see you back and hope you get your big-finger interwebs working soon.
Yay! Theresa lives! She lives!
the place felt empty without you, therese…
Oh man, I only bought the 259X Multi-Button Thingus-Grobble cos I thought the kitty came free with it. Now what am I going to do with it?!
Flip the thingy and they will come……..
So the Acme factory is still in business! I remember that everything in the Wile E. Coyote/Road Runner cartons was made by the Acme Corp. Mostly explosives.
Can’t be too careful about that cap . . . someone will be pouring nitroglycerin into that hole one day, and we certainly don’t want . . . BLAM! BooM!
Oops.
this thread is closed
and it’s open again
and it’s closed again
and it’s open again
I know,right? The phone is smart,up to but not including the buttons. Even this is agony!
Since it’s open, well, I will just have to close it! meow.
It’s such a relief to see a Japanese home that looks like people live in it.