Cal.E.'s Korner

C.: So, T., when are you and your arch-rival, Teh Original Triple T

Tom the Tabby,

going to have a cat fighting match

to determine the World Association of Cat-fighting and Knowledge or Ornithology middle weight title?

T.: That’s on hold for now, Cal.E. WACKO wants to wait and see what happens with the war in the middle east before we schedule our match. I guess with two wars going on in the world, no one wants to see two cats fighting for cat treats. As Meow so elegantly stated, no one wins a war, but sometimes they are necessary. Then, according to the greatest orator of the last century, Sir Winston Charichill it's best to "Never give in—never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."

C.: I disagree slightly with your first statement, but not the second and third, T. I know you are more educated than I am with your Doctorate in Playing and Hiding from the College of the Cat Skills and all….

T.: It’s the University of the Cat Skills now, Cal.E. Tom and I have given the college so much recognition that it has grown enough to be considered a university now. It's UCS now.

I said UCS, not USC!

GO UCS! YOU CAN DO EET!

Closer

C.: Okay, whatever. My point is that, with all the bad stuff going on in the world, people need a reason to laugh and enjoy themselves. Going to the movies these days means almost having to take out a second mortgage on your house if you take more than one other freind or family member to see the movie. If you include a dinner out for four,

it will cost almost most people a week’s wages if there are four or five people dining and going to see the movie. It would almost break you to take me and all fourteen of my kittens to see a movie and have a nice dinner out, even though your a meow-illionaire

T.: Oh, yes. I can remember when it cost only three or four saw bucks for a couple to see a movie and have a decent meal…

C.: So, you’re saying that, when you were a young cat, it only cost fifteen or twenty dollars for you to pay for a date? With whom?

T.: Er…well, we were both…mature when we met, and this is your third marriage. Did you assume that I didn’t have a past when we started dating?

C.: Well…you had so much trouble trying to talk to me I assumed that you were inexperienced with queen cats.

T.: I had never dated a cat from another planet who was the queen of it….

C.: I suppose that fact, combined with my ravishing beauty would make any tom cat babble….

T.: Not to mention your humble, unassuming manor.

C.: Well…yes. I suppose that would make any male nervous. Let’s stop at the next rest stop and carry this conversation to another level (wink)

Meow. Z. Tongue: Have y’all forgotten that I’m in the back seat! Don’t stop at the next rest stop, or the one after that! I want to get home as quickly as possible, so stop talking and drive! I don’t want to see or hear anything else until I get home!

C.: Well then, I suppose that means that’s the end of today’s cat ta(i)le.

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