In this video, Tinkerbell the hamster decides to unload her cheeks. We missed the time she spat out, in addition to a lot of seeds, a desk lamp, two paperback books, and half a dozen toy army men.
So why do hamsters have chubby cheeks? So they won’t need pockets!
Are dogs better than we are at enjoying things? Then again, who ever heard of a dog attending a seance? Or reading Henry James. As the Cat in the Hat (or was it Arthur Treacher?) once said, “It’s fun to have fun, but you’ve got to know how.” Dogs know how.
We’ve all received things in the mail that we wished we hadn’t. Here’s a cat who tries to prevent that from happening. Most cats believe that no news is good news. That’s why you never find cats in journalism school.
You know the cat playing with his ball on the dock is sooner or later going to roll it into the water. This is where the word “inevitable” comes from. And once the ball is overboard, how does the cat ever get it back? Meanwhile, the fish are playing with it…
Do you ever get any of those singing birthday cards? Singing Christmas cards? The ones that sound like the ant-hill glee club. My cats don’t like them, not a bit.
But what I want to know is, why do the cats in this video carry the singing cards around the house? The behavior looks purposeful. Then again, you can say that about a lot of things.
When we concluded Chapter CDLVI of Violet Crepuscular’s epic romance, Oy, Rodney, monsters were ravaging Scurveyshire and Lady Margo Cargo’s wig was on fire. No wonder they call Violet the Queen of Suspense.
Then along comes Chapter CDLVII, which was all about some dopy cousin of hers who used to sit in mud puddles. Ah! But Chapter CDLVIII looks promising! It opens with the American adventurer, Willis Twombley, who thinks he’s Sargon of Akkad, strapping on his six-guns. I’m sorry, but I don’t think he looks like this:
Johnno the Merry Minstrel, who is horse de combat because of the hydra (bit one of his arms off, actually), waylays Willis in the hall. “Twombley!” he pristulates. “Where are you going, man?”
“I’m a-goin’ to plug me that jackalope,” he explains. “A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do. Can’t let the critter eat everybody’s vegetables.” He cannot be persuaded to tackle the hydra instead. He may be crazy, but he’s not stupid.
It has been discovered that the name of the jackalope is Jack. Twombley will bear that in mind as he moves toward the fateful confrontation. Ennio Moriconne music plays in the background. It’s almost impossible to dance to Ennio Moriconne music, as Lady Margo and Lord Jeremy soon discover. Lady Margo removes her wig, now a blacked handful of ash.
“Jack!” Twombley’s voice rings out. “I’m callin’ you out, Jack!”
And out from the vicar’s kitchen garden hops–oh, the suspense! How the dickens can she leave it hanging there? A reader’s gonna get you for that, one of these days…
All the notes to this video are in Russian, but I think what’s going on here is obvious: the bunny is the cat’s biographer. That’s why he follow the cat everywhere it goes: research. The only problem here is that there are two cats and he can’t follow them both at once. He’ll need to hire an assistant.
Wow! Next week, it’ll be Christmas.
Well, for the time being, chill out with edifying television brought to you by Quokka University. Meanwhile, this is Byron the Quokka, makin’ a list and checkin’ it twice!
8 P.M. Ch. 02 THE ROCKFORD FLIES–Drama
This wildly unpopular spinoff of The Rockford Files features Professor Gecko’s Trained Flies as private investigators who get into places where a human P.I. would only attract undue attention to himself. And you’ve heard the expression, “If I could be a fly on the wall…!” This week: Buzzy (voice of Marcel Marceau) bugs a major crime figure (Don Knotts)–and gets swatted!
Ch. 06 CANDID COMPUTER–Comedy
Alan Gzunt and his crew sneak into a house and fiddle with the computer to do all sorts of irrational and frustrating things, and a hidden camera captures the user going totally mad. The show was canceled when it was discovered that computers don’t need to be fiddled with to drive you crazy. Featuring the June Taylor Dancers.
8:15 P.M. Ch. 11 THE TRIBE–Sitcom
What happens when a whole kooky suburban neighborhood tries to pass its people off as Native Americans so they can become college profs and U.S. Senators? C. Waddington Whitworth III: Jimmy Durante. Mrs. Tumbelina Hoskinson: Donna Douglas. Dr. H. Harrison Hormad: Roscoe Lee Brown.
8:30 P.M. Ch. 41 DOC TARRY–Medical Adventure
Adolphe Menjou stars as the idealistic young doctor who thinks you can cure most diseases by conking the patient with a mallet–and is determined to prove it! This week: That pesky guy from the AMA (Peter Graves and Lou Piniella play the same character) is back with more questions. My Little Margie: Sophia Loren.
Ch. 62 MOVIE–Science Fiction/Romance
In Scary Aliens from the Planet Zothar (Irish-Japanese, 1998), an incredibly beautiful young woman (Moms Mabley) dying from an indescribably rare disease (Ross Martin) has to seek a cure among the Scary Aliens Who Eat Earth People (Talia Shire, Dan Rather). Featuring Vladimir Putin’s Orchestra and their trademark song, I’ll ‘Comrade’ You, Comrade!
And that, of course, is only a wee sample of this weekend’s magnificent TV… comrades! You’re gonna love those Rockford Flies, unless you’re really put off by insects. And wait’ll you see what this poor guy does when his computer keeps on hitting him with that completely incomprehensible “Unhandled Exception” notice!
This reminds me of the first night we brought Buster and Missy home to live with us. Excited kittens! And it wasn’t long before we were asking, “Are you sure there’s just two of them?” So count the kittens in this video! Betcha can’t.
And if these kittens don’t make you smile, better check and make sure you can fog a mirror.
The dog dives into snowbanks. Clearly, her problem is not with snow itself. It’s with snow that has been shaped into snowmen, large, small, and in-between.
Why does she attack snowmen? The answer might shed light on certain unsolved mysteries that we don’t know anything about!