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Early Morning Open Thread: Ooh, Snap!

by Anne Laurie|  March 9, 20116:11 am| 19 Comments

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True, this is pandering. But I like the Louis Wain influence around the 0:34 mark…
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Some thirty years ago, there was a cat fancier in Ohio who wanted to refine, and register, a line of polydactyl Maine coons that would breed true. Since the world remains in the hands of us hairless primates, I have to assume her experiment remains a work in progress.

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  1. 1.

    Calouste

    March 9, 2011 at 6:37 am

    There are reports that three of Gaddafi’s private planes (he has 5 apparently) have left Lybia for Cairo, Athens and Vienna respectively. No indication of who is on board though.

  2. 2.

    Kirbster

    March 9, 2011 at 6:40 am

    I love this commercial. The cat-thumb on the door latch truly is the beginning of the end for humanity, although I wouldn’t mind if my fur-child learned to use a nail file instead of the bedroom chair for his claw maintenance.

  3. 3.

    PurpleGirl

    March 9, 2011 at 6:41 am

    Absolutely great. I like the cat reading The Art of Military Strategy. Heh, they will truly become our overlords once they get opposable thumbs. Cole better watch out.

  4. 4.

    M. Bouffant

    March 9, 2011 at 7:15 am

    It is more than acceptable to pander w/ cats.

  5. 5.

    Linda Featheringill

    March 9, 2011 at 7:20 am

    Since I live with a poly-dactyl, I think that establishing a whole line of them would be so cool!

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/48117682@N05/4438479736/

    This is Mojii. He is about 15 or 16 years old. He has been aging lately. When he goes, I’m going to miss those big feet.

    :-)

  6. 6.

    Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal

    March 9, 2011 at 7:27 am

    from the wiki

    Whereas he had been a mild-mannered and trusting man, he became hostile and suspicious, particularly towards his sisters. He claimed that the flickering of the cinema screen had robbed the electricity from their brains. He began wandering the streets at night, rearranging furniture within the house, and spent long periods locked in his room writing incoherently

    this man would have pwned the internets on so many levels. kinda makes you wonder who else in history should have had an internets. and, for those who are so inclined, who shouldn’t have.

  7. 7.

    stuckinred

    March 9, 2011 at 7:30 am

    I knew Morris the cat and his owners back in the day. I wonder if this kitty is as stoned?

  8. 8.

    MikeJ

    March 9, 2011 at 7:41 am

    @Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal: Cudlip.

  9. 9.

    abo gato

    March 9, 2011 at 7:44 am

    Thank you for showing us this ad. It is the funniest commercial I have seen in a long, long time.

  10. 10.

    R-Jud

    March 9, 2011 at 7:53 am

    I saw this at the gym on Monday and thought “People at Balloon-Juice would like this.” And behold, it is true.

  11. 11.

    Jack Bauer

    March 9, 2011 at 8:13 am

    England ‘healthier than the US’ (BBC)

    Public health experts suggested more generous holiday entitlements and more favourable working conditions in the UK might also play a part.

    A spokesperson from the Department of Health said: “The NHS offers care free to all at the point of use and based on need.

    “Whilst in some areas our outcomes may be favourable compared with those in the US, we are still clear that we have a long way to go before we achieve outcomes comparable with the best performing health systems.

    “That is exactly why we are modernising the NHS.”

    Cradle to the grave, free healthcare, that costs less in terms of GDP, might be a good way for the US to shrink it’s deficit.

  12. 12.

    R-Jud

    March 9, 2011 at 8:22 am

    @Jack Bauer:

    “That is exactly why we are modernising the NHS.”

    Unfortunately, they’re cutting it to the bone and part-privatizing it.

    A survey of 800 family doctors, by the Nuffield Trust health thinktank, found that 71% expect the switch to GP-led commissioning of healthcare will force new consortiums of doctors to focus on controlling their costs, which will lead to growing restrictions on treatments the NHS can provide, limit the number and type of procedures patients can have, and offer less choice.

    Sound familiar? Fucking Tories.

  13. 13.

    uila

    March 9, 2011 at 8:24 am

    Polydactyl cats are thriving in central upstate New York. It’s frankly more surprising to meet a cat there that does NOT have seven toes on one paw.

  14. 14.

    Jack Bauer

    March 9, 2011 at 8:38 am

    @R-Jud:

    Sound familiar? Fucking Tories.

    Hehe, yep.

  15. 15.

    MattF

    March 9, 2011 at 9:30 am

    I once had a cat who would remind me that she wanted to be fed by grabbing (paw-and-thumb) the cuff of my pant leg and tugging on it. Kinda scary, in retrospect.

  16. 16.

    ET

    March 9, 2011 at 10:44 am

    @Linda Featheringill: I have a poly as well and he feet look enormous…..

    All I could think of was O.M.G. I have one that looks like that black one and got a wee scared

  17. 17.

    asiangrrlMN

    March 9, 2011 at 11:00 am

    Finally watched the ad. Very cute. I welcome my thumbed feline overlords and ladies.

  18. 18.

    Fax Paladin

    March 9, 2011 at 12:37 pm

    A folk singer of my acquaintance breeds cats for intelligence as well as polydactyly. There is (naturally) a song about it, which, alas, does not appear to be online: “Cats With Thumbs,” sung to the tune of “Cows With Guns.”

  19. 19.

    Emerald

    March 9, 2011 at 1:34 pm

    Tim Curry voiceover combined with brilliant concept.

    (I’m sure they got the idea from the Cheezburger site, which has cats lamenting their lack of opposable thumbs as an ongoing theme.)

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