Daily Kitten Chat Forum Topic: Some Diverting Humor For The Literary Types

Daily Kitten Chat Forum Topic: Some Diverting Humor For The Literary Types http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ Daily Kitten Chat Forum Topic: Some Diverting Humor For The Literary Types en Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:30:47 +0000 Nirmal on "Some Diverting Humor For The Literary Types" http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/16247#post-367301 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:34:50 +0000 Nirmal 367301@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ very cool SoxsMom on "Some Diverting Humor For The Literary Types" http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/16247#post-367182 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:30:57 +0000 SoxsMom 367182@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ Those are great NNGM! You are right--this is just what the doctor ordered! NNGM on "Some Diverting Humor For The Literary Types" http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/16247#post-367161 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:05:36 +0000 NNGM 367161@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ (Oh, all right, one more.) Sitting by the Fire on a Snowy Evening - by Robert Frost's cat Whose chair this is by now I know. He's somewhere in the forest though; He will not see me sitting here A place I'm not supposed to go. He really is a little queer To leave the fire's cozy cheer And ride out by the frozen lake The coldest evening of the year. To love the snow it takes a flake: The chill that makes your footpads ache, The drifts too high to lurk or creep, The icicles that drip and break. His chair is comfy, soft and deep. But I have got an urge to leap, And mice to catch before I sleep. And mice to catch before I sleep. CSBM on "Some Diverting Humor For The Literary Types" http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/16247#post-367132 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:17:04 +0000 CSBM 367132@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ e.e. cummings (who got it totally wrong) the only thing wrong with a kitten is that it eventually grows up to be a cat... "seen on a bumper sticker" (also totally wrong) a cat by any other name is still a hairball that shits behind the couch... paulajeanne on "Some Diverting Humor For The Literary Types" http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/16247#post-367108 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:41:17 +0000 paulajeanne 367108@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ love 'em, love 'em, love 'em! Thanks! WillowandWindismom on "Some Diverting Humor For The Literary Types" http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/16247#post-367104 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:33:55 +0000 WillowandWindismom 367104@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ These are wonderful! I'm going to copy them and send them to my 96 year old M-i-L, who is quite the literary addict. I coughed a hairball in the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where *snort!* Pollys_Mum_in_UK_2605 on "Some Diverting Humor For The Literary Types" http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/16247#post-367096 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:07:09 +0000 Pollys_Mum_in_UK_2605 367096@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ They have given me food for thought. I think I'll have to take up my pen again. Karenopa on "Some Diverting Humor For The Literary Types" http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/16247#post-367094 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:04:58 +0000 Karenopa 367094@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ Those were all awesome Joan! Thanks! =) NNGM on "Some Diverting Humor For The Literary Types" http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/16247#post-367091 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:01:37 +0000 NNGM 367091@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ The Hairball and the Mouse by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Cat I chased a mouse beneath the stair, It went to ground, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it ran, my sight Could not follow it in its flight. I coughed a hairball in the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For though my sight is sharp and true, I saw not where that fur-bullet flew. Some time afterward, quite by chance, I spied them both in a single glance; For the mouse in a corner lay dead, A hairball lodged in his tiny head. (OK I'll stop now) NNGM on "Some Diverting Humor For The Literary Types" http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/16247#post-367086 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:56:10 +0000 NNGM 367086@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ To the Kittens, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick's Cat Get ye a human while ye may, When you are still a kitten, For by a cat too long a stray Men's hearts are seldom smitten. The master of yon cozy house May wed a maid with puppies; Or set a trap to catch a mouse, Or buy a bowl of guppies. Cold rains will soon the summer drown, And ice will crack the willow; And though the snow is soft as down, It makes a chilly pillow. Then hands that would have stroked your head, When you came in from prowling, Will hurl at you a boot instead To halt your awful howling. Buttercup on "Some Diverting Humor For The Literary Types" http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/16247#post-367084 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:53:53 +0000 Buttercup 367084@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ brilliant! "aye, there's the hairball;" :) NNGM on "Some Diverting Humor For The Literary Types" http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/16247#post-367083 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:53:23 +0000 NNGM 367083@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ To a Vase by Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Cat from POETRY FOR CATS by Henry Beard How do I break thee? Let me count the ways. I break thee if thou art at any height My paw can reach, when, smarting from some slight, I sulk, or have one of my crazy days, I break thee with an accidental graze Or twitch of tail, if I should take a fright. I break thee out of pure and simple spite The way I broke the jar of mayonnaise. I break thee if I'm in a playful mood, And then I wrestle with the shiny bits. I break thee if I do not like my food. And if someone thy shards together fits, I'll break thee once again when thou art glued. AV on "Some Diverting Humor For The Literary Types" http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/16247#post-367080 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:50:25 +0000 AV 367080@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ I love that! NNGM on "Some Diverting Humor For The Literary Types" http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/16247#post-367076 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:46:57 +0000 NNGM 367076@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ I don't know why, but for some reason I was thinking about poetry today and I remembered a book I used to have called "Poetry for Cats, By Cats". Basically it took famous poems are re-wrote them, cat style. It was hilarious. Because I think we all need a good laugh right now, I am posting one of them. Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy from HAMLET'S CAT by William Shakespeare's Cat To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to remain within: that is the question: Whether 'tis better for a cat to suffer The cuffs and buffets of inclement weather That Nature rains on those who roam abroad, Or take a nap upon a scrap of carpet, And so by dozing melt the solid hours That clog the clock's bright gears with sullen time And stall the dinner bell. To sit, to stare Outdoors, and by a stare to seem to state A wish to venture forth without delay, Then when the portal's opened up, to stand As if transfixed by doubt. To prowl; to sleep; To choose not knowing when we may once more Our readmittance gain: aye, there's the hairball; For if a paw were shaped to turn a knob, Or work a lock or slip a window-catch, And going out and coming in were made As simple as the breaking of a bowl, What cat would bear the household's petty plagues, The cook's well-practiced kicks, the butler's broom, The infant's careless pokes, the tickled ears, The trampled tail, and all the daily shocks That fur is heir to, when, of his own free will, He might his exodus or entrance make With a mere mitten? Who would spaniels fear, Or strays trespassing from a neighbor's yard, But that the dread of our unheeded cries And scratches at a barricaded door No claw can open up, dispels our nerve And makes us rather bear our humans' faults Than run away to unguessed miseries? Thus caution doth make house cats of us all; And thus the bristling hair of resolution Is softened up with the pale brush of thought, And since our choices hinge on weighty things, We pause upon the threshold of decision. Now I must go look up the one by Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cat, titled "Ode To A Vase" "How do I break thee, let me count the ways"...