It had been a good catch and there were many fish. The silver scales reflected the glint of the noonday sun and felt rough and flaky against their calloused fingers and I meant the fingers of the men and not the fish because fish don’t have fingers and it had been a good catch but I said that already. A cat watched them. And another. And then another and then another and then yet another and then a still further entirely different yet suspiciously identical other and then there were many cats.
There was a website and its name was Pixdaus and the picture came from there.
WOW!! I’m surprised they’re waiting so patiently….you can tell a few have been copied and photoshopped in but there are still a ton of cats! Can you spot the photobomb???
I love cats but if a bunch of them were looking at me like that, I’d be a little skert.
If they clone the fish in Photoshop like they did the cats, they’ll be all set.
Love the one looking back at the camera, though.
The tiniest photobomb.
That was my thought too! Just a hint of photobomb, for flavor!
I believe that’s famous Internet celebrity Serious Cat.
HAHAHAHA! I didn’t even SEE Serious Cat! Thanks for pointing that out!
I knew I recognized that cat, but I couldn’t think of the right thing to google to find him!
Cleverly ‘shopped. But a good one! And for a good cause.
Oh Mike. I bet you wrote this while you were driving your ambulance to Pamplona.
I CANNOT MANAGE to bring to words, how much I lurrrrrrrrrve this post, Mike.
To Theresa: I think that Mike’s text as shown above, might be one of the earliest drafts of this author’s manuscript. As it appears above, one might say it is ….
“refreshingly…. unpolished.” *cough*
Give a cat a fish, they’ll eat for a day. Teach a cat to fish, they’ll still tell you to go fishing.
Do you know this joke?
Make a fire for a man and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.
(thank you, Tom and Ray)
I like this one:
Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Teach him to fish and he’ll sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
truer words have ne’er been spoken…
In his Bronko Nagurski underwear.
And who, here, knows WHY “boat” is SPELLED “b”-”o”-”a”-”t”
(aka “for what four words, do the initials b.o.a.t.. stand??”) ??????
I’ll ck back in Thurs or Fri, here, to see who, besides Theresa, might know this puzzle’s answer …
“Marsupials of Unusual Size”?
Break Out Another Thousand.
YAY to both Theresa and to Rachael.
In this ‘ticklar case, Rachael seems to have listened to the Car Tawk episode in qwershtyun ….
Thank Terry Pratchett for that one, actually. It’s from his Discworld book “Jingo”, which is brilliant.
Those cats are CLONES!!!
Indeed they are! It took me a while to notice, but I did eventually figure it out. It was the markings on the orange and white one that really cinched it for me.
why in the werruld am I in the mod lounge?
No fair!
*stamps feet in solidarity w/ phred’s mom*
*pulls out Crayolas and posterboard*
*plays a Pete Seeger union folksong*
Well, if you want higher wages let me tell you what to do
Got to talk to the workers in the shop with you…
Whoops, this was meant to continue Fird Birfle’s Pete Seeger thread…
Happy belated Labor Day, Firdie.
Belated thank you Theresa!!! My times online are a tad unpredictable lately.
BTW — I JUST SAW my husband, Craig F. talking with (? I think it was) Ernie and various chikkens, on Sesame St., this morning!!! YAY chikkens!! YAY Craig-y-poo!
DANG IT this one wuz s’posed to go, way up higher, under THERESA’s comment.
*stomps away, pouting and grumbling about dangnabbed no gudfernutthin gadgets*
Hey! I’m in the Mod lounge too! Luckily I was holding a plate of croissants when I stumbled in. Have some, I think there is some apricot jam here somewhere…..
Can I have another chorus of ” Joe Hill”, while we’re
here in the Lounge? Thank you, Joanie.
How about “This Lounges is your Lounge, this Lounge is my Lounge…”
From the Crudités station to the New York Hot dog
From the red wood deck chairs to the Gulf Stream shrimp balls,
This Lounge was made for you and Me.
Awesome!
As I was posting an innocent comment
I got a message that I was grounded
But I found friends who could share my sorrow
This Lounge was made for you and me.
*hugz BB/VA in solidarity*
Brava, bbva!
. I’m with you in spirit!
*gets out posterboard & markers, starts making Free BBVA NOW! signs…
WOW!! *applauds vigorously*
supposed to be beneath BB/VA’s song!
I clicked under a couple of different places and the replies ended up elsewhere.
The quote tree has termites.
wow!!!
ok the CO mainframe (does such a thing still exist??) is having hiccups. I DEFinitely clicked under reply under Ali-Baba’s re-lyric-izing of “This Land” (at the moment I”m still too sleppy to recall the song’s real title) America/ Lounge song. and it landed way down below at “newest comment” location instead of under Ali-Baba’s.
Ali-Baba — WOW at your lyrical work.
*sigh* at gadgets that run our world, cock-eyed
Imma tell you whut, I agrees wit ya! I replied to BBVA & it went solo like three comments later. Ah well! Mebbe they need to change out the hamsters on the wheel or sumthin,.
And thank you! All y’all CO’rs have rubbed off on me & my phrasicallity & I couldn’t be happier!
VERY NICE, BB/VA!!!!
I think that basically there were two “milkmen” in town, visiting all the fisherwives……
One orange & white and the other guy was a tabbie.
Cue T.U.M. …..
“wait, wait”
I’m adjusting my earlier assessment.
There seems to have also been a tuxedo-d milkman visiting the fisherwives.
So three milkmen in town.
Um…shouldn’t that be milkCATS? or maybe milkToms…
yes, that IS a logical point, which I hadn’t considered previously
Given the Hemmingway reference, the cats must all be polydactyls. Which means they have limited genetic diversity. Which means they *can* all look alike! So I say ’nuffers be darned, it’s a legit pic!
Trivia For The Day: Did you know that even if you clone (I’m talking actual DNA cloning here, not the computer kind) a multi-colored cat, the markings will not be identical? It all depends on which cells get there first as the fetus is developing. My nortie tortie, Dora the Explorer, is mostly black–I always wish that the orange cells had been a little speedier.
Awwwhhh…
My Dusty is also a mostly-black tortie, who got her (real) name from Dora the Explorer: Dorotea Beatriz Fitzthomas. (All my cats are ‘son of Thomas’…)
Her use-name is ‘Dusty’ because she liked to crawl under furniture as a kitten – and I’m not exactly the world’s best housekeeper… She’s a whiz at kitty-soccer, too, and ‘Dusty’ sort of sounds like an athlete to me.
Wow, what a coinkadink! Two mostly-black torties named after Dora the Explorer. I adopted her and her brother the day after I moved into my current place–because it isn’t a home without cats, right?–so I was unpacking, there were tons of boxes around, I had to keep opening boxes/drawers/cupboards/closets–and every time I did that kitten would run inside to explore.
‘Dusty’ is a cool name. It makes me think of Dusty Springfield. Also one of the cowboys on “Prairie Home Companion.”
NTMTOM + Hemingway = major swoonage.
NTMTOM! This is another entry for the coffee table book that we *know* you are working on! Please? Pretty please?
I’ll buy at least a dozen copies, NTMTOM! Please….?
I’m in line too.
Oh, NOMTOM, you are truly a genius.
The buffet opens at 11:30, guys…..
LOL. Not since a picture of a man carrying milk in Peter Jenkins’ “A Walk Across America” have I seen a photo of cats in anticipation of a treat!
Mod Lounged, again. Fer sayin’ nuthin’, Really, you’ll see when they release me. Anyone gonna visit? I have cats. And fish.
Here, have some warm chocolate sugar cookies and a glass of fresh, cold milk to wash them down with.
Thanks for the refreshments. I’m still in here, doin’ hard time! What’s a person gotta do to get out?
Quite a cat-ch!
ka-CHING-a
KAT-ching-a
Wait, if fish don’t have fingers, what did I eat the other night with tartar sauce?
Buffalo wings?
FISH FINGERS ARE PEOPLE!!!!!
heh heh heh Ali-Baba: “Soylent Green is PEOPLE” !!!
….and this will ALSO (Grumble, mutter) land at the bottom of the page, instead of under Ali Baba time-stamped 7:18 pm about fishsticks…
Fish fingers and custard!
Doctor Who reference ftw!
I guess this one was taken before all the other ones arrived: http://cslacker.com/images/view/587
AWW
I hope those poor kitties were given some fish to eat 
I wish I’d seen this picture instead; it’s every bit as funny and not doctored. Now I’m baffled as to why anyone felt the need to add more kitties to this shot (except for Serious Cat; that was clever).
It would have been funnier if they were all sitting in boxes.
Just saying.
True dat.
Thank you, WSO50. I was trying to drum up the courage to point out that all the identically-marked cats are also identically-posed, leading up to the dreaded ‘p word’ (Photoshopped), which is kind of like sticking a huge “Kick Me!” sign on your own back . . . but you saved me from that fate.
you are not alone, believe me. everyone else who feels the need to point out the photoshopping (or illustratoring, or flashing, or gimping or copy/pasting), just try and enjoy.
This post is pure brilliance. I never could stand Hemingway, but I like this.
Glad to hear I ‘m not the only Hemingway Hater around. Never could
get the appeal.
Oh gersh yes. This makes Hemmingway almost palatable.
Couldn’t agree more, both with NTMTOM’s genius and Hemingway’s lack thereof.
Count me into the club. The only thing laudable about Hemmingway imo was his love of cats.
And the fish were good.
How come whenever i post something, it’s marked for moderation and then i never see it? What’s up with that? I’m about to get ornery…
Tamara, it’s not you, it’s some kind of glitch with the spam filter, and Sharpy is working on it. Happens to me frequently, and I just resign myself to reading the other funny comments.
Now that’s funny, I don’t care who you are. Laugh,Sing, Dance!
My friend*s response was *dupli-cats!*
Infinkitty
I like the little photo bomber in the bottom right hand corner!
This could totally be Tashirojima in Japan aka “Cat Island”!
I’ve been there myself. It’s a very small island with more cats than human residents!
As I was going to St Ives
I met a man with seven wives
Every wife had seven sacks
Every sack had seven cats
Every cat had seven kits
Every kit had seven toes
Toes, kits, cats, sacks, wives.
How many were going to Pinkberry?
Ha Ha! Wonderful. It’s the fishes you’re supposed to multiply! It’s so cleverly done that I had to take a second look. This is a favorite, for sure!
Love tiny photobomb kitteh!
A buddy of mine used to enter the Bad Hemingway Contest every year – the winners have nothin’ on you, NOMTOM. You are a master! *wild applause*
This reminds me of a childhood book: “…hundreds of cats, thousands of cats, millions and billions and trillions of cats. Cats here, cats there, cats and kittens everywhere.”
to writeenwyrdd, time-stamped Sept 6, 5:10 am:
*sigh*
WOT a wunnerful, wunnerful buk!!! Cherished yummy moments with that one!
Le livre, voila!!!
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/621739.Millions_of_Cats
*now whining for own self. Ain’t NUTTHIN’ moderateable, except that I have placed more than a coupla comments arreddy ….about this
(above) item to be lasso-d into the Mod Lounge* oh well, lessee whut’s in the fridge ….
I count 8 originals and 10 copies
Mine was supposed to be under Ali-Baba’s – I think the leaves all fell off the quote tree or something.
This is why I am something of a Luddite. Or Amish,
anyhoo. As the Emperor Franz Joseph said of
Mozart’s music, “There are too many notes!”
Keep lt simple. Shaker, that’s it! No, wait,
they were celibate. Although…
Photoshopping too obvious….. overwhelming the cute….. Noooooooes!