I think mid-February is too early for a Covid joke. Maybe it’s just an explanation of why his cat is so different from all other cats.
My first thought had been that this was the first installment of a series, but the next ones (and the previous one) don’t seem to have any connection.
I thought the plot was something like “mysterious spacefaring feline travels a bazillion light years to take a dump in Liō’s flower beds.”
Didn’t you always kind of suspect cats were from outer space?
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1) Its a geezer reference if its something only known to geezers because everyone else is too young to have experienced. It’s not a geezer reference its something that was totally obscure and unknown to anyone in its own time.
2) I suppose I have a loosing battle that puns like “Supurr” which are obvious and impossible to not predict and which it is a given that *no-one* will actually find funny, are not worth making. [I honestly don’t understand why people not only make them but seem to assume they are *required*]. But for goodness sake, ufos are NOT super-natural. Ghosts are supernatural. UFOs are science-fiction.
3) I was tongue cheek about the Covid joke. And I thought the point was Lio’s cat was *exactly* like other cats.
4) Cats being aliens has long been a joke and basis of short stories.
I want to say “Something involving hairballs”? but that’s as far as I can get…
Coming back from the Heavyside Layer, no doubt.
“Pomp and Circumstance” played in my head when I saw the last panel.
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When in doubt it’s a Covid 19 joke?
….. or cats are weird?
Why is the spaceship not shaped like a coronavirus? Who has kidnapped Mr. T?
However, to carry on Mr. T’s infection theme, cats are alien creatures sent to infect human with horrible brain damage. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/toxoplasmosis/symptoms-causes/syc-20356249
Semi-geezer reference?
I think mid-February is too early for a Covid joke. Maybe it’s just an explanation of why his cat is so different from all other cats.
My first thought had been that this was the first installment of a series, but the next ones (and the previous one) don’t seem to have any connection.
I thought the plot was something like “mysterious spacefaring feline travels a bazillion light years to take a dump in Liō’s flower beds.”
Didn’t you always kind of suspect cats were from outer space?
MinorAnnoyance: Col. Blake and Col. Potter, together again!
1) Its a geezer reference if its something only known to geezers because everyone else is too young to have experienced. It’s not a geezer reference its something that was totally obscure and unknown to anyone in its own time.
2) I suppose I have a loosing battle that puns like “Supurr” which are obvious and impossible to not predict and which it is a given that *no-one* will actually find funny, are not worth making. [I honestly don’t understand why people not only make them but seem to assume they are *required*]. But for goodness sake, ufos are NOT super-natural. Ghosts are supernatural. UFOs are science-fiction.
3) I was tongue cheek about the Covid joke. And I thought the point was Lio’s cat was *exactly* like other cats.
4) Cats being aliens has long been a joke and basis of short stories.
I want to say “Something involving hairballs”? but that’s as far as I can get…
Coming back from the Heavyside Layer, no doubt.
“Pomp and Circumstance” played in my head when I saw the last panel.
Not that it helps anything.