Here at the Bad Idea Foundation, our researchers work tirelessly on dubious ideas for your entertainment, such as this ceiling fan placed too close to a cupboard.
Fan Dunce
July 19, 2012 By
Here at the Bad Idea Foundation, our researchers work tirelessly on dubious ideas for your entertainment, such as this ceiling fan placed too close to a cupboard.
ROUND AND ROUND SHE GOES —-HAAAAALLLLP !!!
I hope this doesn’t qualify as nuffing, but I think the laughing guy put something tempting on the fan blade to entice the kitty to make the jump– so he could capture it on YouTube™. If so, it’s not funny, it borders on cruel.
it’s hard not to find nuffing in the cutehood anymore. i guess your comment kind of borders on nuffing, but let’s leave it here so other people don’t get carried away.
I know at least for my cat (and I’m sure others can vouch), she pretty much just wants to try and get anywhere that’s high up and she’s never been before. From where that cat is standing, it’s just a flat plank asking to be jumped upon! The notion of walking somewhere precarious is usually temptation enough for kitties
nah. that’s just cats for ya…
Cupboard is a funny word if you look at it without saying it out loud.
Looks like a bunch of wall units to me !!!
*Drum roll*
*Cymbal crash*
*Thud*
ooooh, I bet the nuffers’ll show up soon…
*sigh*
i’m off to make a big batch of cinnamon rolls and restock the bar.
Better keep your head down. The kit’s about to hit the fan.
I just about put coffe through my nose on that one, Oakley. Well done!
I believe it/he just did !
Threadjack – I’m sorry to do this, but I am desparately seeking a new home for a 4 yr old male blue point Siamese. He is an affectionate, playful cat but really wants to be an only cat. Unfortunately, he has attacked my other two cats three different times, I can no longer keep him. If you live in the DFW area and may know someone interested in giving him a loving home, please contact me for further info at Jennifer.mathews at pxd.com. Thank you for reading this.
Now back to your regularly scheduled program…..
I’m not in the DFW area and I’m not looking for a cat… but I wish you and your little guy the best of luck. *hug*
Thanks – he really is an awesome cat – cuddly, playful, affectionate, smart and it goes against everything I believe in to give up an animal that I’ve taken into my home, but I have to protect the others.
i’m sure it must be terribly difficult, but i think you’re making the best decision possible, for everyone. i’m far away and allergic to cats, so i can’t help you there, but i wish you all the best of luck!
I live in the DFW area but am already servant to one chubby kitty. Does your Siamese absolutely must be the only child in the house? Perhaps he just doesn’t get along with males/females? or a particular breed? Do you think he would do well in a cage? I have a pretty large cat condo that I could use to separate them for a while to acclimate him, but he would eventually have to come out…And what exactly does he do when you say he “attacks?” I wish I could take him! But I totally understand you when you say you have to protect the others first
Its a full on physical battle. You would think they were mortal enemies instead of just different creatures of the same species. Male or female – doesnt matter, I have one of each, both rescue – 1 tuxie, 1 part siamese/part ????. Not sure what kind of cat condo you’re taking about that would isolate, but would be interested in seeing picture/maybe borrowing. He does have a room that I keep him separated from the others in, After spending an hour on the phone today with director of Siamese Cat Rescue in TX, she’s gave me a lot of advice. Cat condo may work in with that. SRC is also willing to continue to give me guidance. Siamese are apparently much more difficult to train & integrate, but she said if it works, its well worth the effort.
What an odd place to hang a clock !!!
lol, I thought that too – maybe there was already a nail in the wall there…
which is exactly how i arrange my art and scarves and necklaces and coat racks and clocks. why mess with the infinite, i always say…
also: that fan is not spinning, is it? i doubt my sanity at times like this..
In Soviet Russia, clock hangs you…
“The Bad Idea Foundation”!1 NOMTOM, you kill me, you just do. Thank you.
No pic! Big Black Square! *pouts*
About 9 years ago, my then-kitten Ursula did the same thing, leaping from the stairs to the blade of the ceiling fan. She was little enough not to fall right away. The fan managed one slow revolution before she freaked and fell/jumped off. That one can still bring laugh-tears to my eyes.
I’m too scared to watch.
If it helps anyone to know this, the fan is not rotating, and the cat lands safely on its feet.
Hopefully, that cat will not do THAT again!
I wonder…maybe the cat has tried it before? I never manage to flim my kittehs doing cute/funny/silly things unless I can predict the sequence of events (because they’ve done it previously).
oh, yeah, it will, multiple times, i betcha. it really looks like fun to me.\\message from the Rehab….no joke..
not THAT kind of rehab; the other kind…
Thanks, NOMTOM. You gave me the courage to watch, and it was funny and not scary. I should know better. CO always serves up high quality Qte!
thank you, oh, thank you, my dear…when are we going to set the wedding date? are you stalling, mayhaps?
sniffle….HONK
any internships open at the Bad Idea Foundation? I bet headquarters is a riot
I am trying valiantly NOT to imagine it.
Internships, heck, I should get the equivalent of the Bad Ideas MacArthur grant.
or the Stand ‘n’ Clap prize for the person, most demented, with the best bad idea.
no contest. runs through the closet, decides to wear whatever falls on me…
I bet it’s like the set of Jackass.
They were going to build it next to the heaquarters for the Darwin Awards but well, you know.
Eddy would do this, except he’s so fat he would pull the fan right out of the ceiling.
Thanks! I just snorted coffee out my nose!!
*Explosive spontaneous laughter* here.
So, have Russian kittehs always been crazy and we’re just now finding this out thanks to the internet?
If so, Thanks, internet!
Also, hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!
they’ve always been crazy. the rehab mascots…
Kamakazi kitty?
I had to watch through my fingers. The suspense was killing me.
Oh you had to know he was going to jump. With that look on his face…
On the plus side, that particular fan blade no longer needs dusting. Wonder if I can convince my fluffy kitty to try that.
True. Always a silver lining!
That was my first thought, too, TOOJ!
At one point, I was in a very small bedroom, and a wardrobe was positioned near the ceiling fan. Kyuri decided to explore the top of the wardrobe one evening; his mommy nearly had a heart attack until the fan stopped moving and he jumped down from the wardrobe. (Yes, I turned off the fan as soon as I saw the tail on the wardrobe….
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As soon as I saw “Bad Idea Foundation” I recognized the hand of NTMTOM. Thanks Mike, I needed a laugh badly, and this is a doozey.
“Fan Dunce”! hahahahahaha
For some reason I imagine the ‘Mission Impossible’ theme playing in the background…
… with a quick segue into “Yakkity Sax.”.
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the fan-dangle?
*falls off chair laughing*
THUNDER BOLTS & LIGHTNING VERY VERY FRIGHTNING !
…ME
Do they wear Bad Idea jeans at the Bad Idea foundation?
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/bad-idea-jeans/1354204/
Catapult
I’m wondering if the shoddy wallpapering/ceiling paper is also due to the Bad Idea Foundation’s researcher or just the general state of Russian apartments?
We have a similar situation in our townhouse. The top of the china cabinet is pretty close to the ceiling fan and our kitty used to like getting up there quite a lot. She would have jumped on it, had we not stopped her!!! I guess this proves to me that I had reason to be concerned! I doubt this guy put anything up there to entice the cat. A flat, shelf-like high spot is enough to entice any cat to jump onto it! You know what they say about curiosity and cats!
Interesting – I’m usually the first one here to criticize when anything is anywhere near cruel (in my eyes), but with this it didn’t even cross my mind until I read some comments. Hope the guy didn’t entice the kitty and hope he’ll never have the cat do it with the fan on!… [Now I hope I can get that image out of my mind! It's already cluttered with other pictures that I don't want there.. ].
how funny i have a wild one at home too