Tuesday is the cruelest day, mixing unplowed snow that blankets spring tubers with a long week that stretches ahead interminably. I will go to the lab and drink coffee, blinking away the sleeplessness. Ja bin ich echt Jude, aber auch todmüde. Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Hil is completely enigmatic, but Malgorzata gave an explanation (below):
Hili: First a cat domesticated a human and then humans invented a table.A: Why do you think so?Hili: Before that, humans were not very inventive.
In Polish:
Hili: Najpierw kot oswoił człowieka, a potem człowiek wynalazł stół.
Ja: Dlaczego tak sądzisz?
Hili: Wcześniej ludzie nie byli specjalnie pomysłowi.
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Explanation: “Before a cat came into the life of humans, they were just gloomy brutes, eating, sleeping and fornicating. Then they saw this charming and funny creature. They relaxed, smiled and wanted to please it. They started inventing things which would make the cat perform its wonderfully entertaining tricks. Hence a table a cat could jump on.”
Poor Jerry! He needs a kitty cuddle!
I am reminded of an old edition of “Hancock’s Half Hour” from the Radio (UK, 1950s)…
Tony Hancock –
“Where’s that stiff upper lip?”
Kenneth Williams –
“It’s above this loose flabby chin…”
PS We finally got a touch of snow in London but only a tad…
Hancock is still great sixty years on. Regularly repeated on BBC iplayer, and funnier than most of the recent comedy their.
IME most human inventiveness involves trying to keep the kittehs off the table…
They are strangely attracted to things that really you don’t want walked on… 🙂
Oh, there’s a simple solution to that.
Just give up…Baihu is permitted anywhere he fancies save the top of the stove….
b&
There is another blog that I read, Love and Hisses, and the folks behind it have clearly given up to the point where there are cat beds on the table. I still attempt to fight the good fight, but mostly I loose. I don’t think that a human can out stubborn a feline.
Why did I think of that? There’s now a cat bed on the table. Thanks!
b&
P.S. Moments after typing that, there is now a cat in the cat bed on the table. Mission accomplished! b&
Animals love box, and our bed are flat…. Oh no, house represents box.
> Ja bin ich echt Jude, aber auch todmüde.
Auch Sie sind sehr rätselhaft, Herr Professor.
Es ist seine Einfachheit, die so rätselhaft ist.