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You are here: Home / Pet Blogging / Cat Blogging / RIP Longcat

RIP Longcat

by Major Major Major Major|  September 21, 202012:40 am| 19 Comments

This post is in: Cat Blogging, Open Threads, Pet Blogging

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Early meme pioneer Longcat, real name Nobiko (“stretchy”?), has passed at the ripe old age of eighteen.

訃報
飼い主のみーこさんより、のび子さんが先ほど虹の橋を渡ったそうです。ご冥福をお祈りします。

2005年頃から猫画像の加工がブームとなるなかで、のびーるたんの愛称で親しまれ圧倒的な存在でした。

地球に生まれて長生きしてくれてありがとう、のびーるたん?

※以下拾い物画像より pic.twitter.com/c7aOlgSLyi

— えあろうっちー (@aerosubaru) September 20, 2020

A lot’s changed on the Internet since 2005, when that picture went viral… but some things, such as the supremacy of felis catus, have not.

Here’s a thread by Longcat’s owner with dozens of adorable pictures from over the years. Machine translation suggests that they are distraught–feel free to leave them a nice note.

私は弱い人間です。
向き合うといったのに、向き合えないです。
承認欲求の塊です。
のび子さん、いえ、シロちゃんを見てやってください。
彼女は私にとって、とーちゃんにとって、息子にとって、かけがえのない猫です。#のび子さん pic.twitter.com/hqhVmUsPfp

— 無冠の女王みーこ@高知 (@miyabi_2222) September 20, 2020

Open thread.

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19Comments

  1. 1.

    Yutsano

    September 21, 2020 at 12:52 am

    Aww. 2020 can officially stop now.

  2. 2.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    September 21, 2020 at 12:54 am

    RIP mouser

  3. 3.

    Major Major Major Major

    September 21, 2020 at 12:59 am

    RIP longcat pic.twitter.com/tJiKptlTVd

    — Tynan, kupo? (@TynanPants) September 20, 2020

  4. 4.

    SectionH

    September 21, 2020 at 1:07 am

    He was a good cat. And he was long. Just fuck this endless shit.

  5. 5.

    HumboldtBlue

    September 21, 2020 at 1:19 am

    huh

  6. 6.

    SectionH

    September 21, 2020 at 1:26 am

    @SectionH: Oh, edit time ran out. We just got back from a wonderful evening with “our kids” – meaning son, DiL, and granddaughter – for his birthday. My son and I both loved Cheeseburger back in the day,
    18’s a decent age for a cat, but I will follow up on condolences to his people as much as I can.

  7. 7.

    Major Major Major Major

    September 21, 2020 at 1:38 am

    @SectionH: I just got back from a week with my family, first time seeing them since the pandemic started. Was very nice.

  8. 8.

    HumboldtBlue

    September 21, 2020 at 1:51 am

    Here’s some funky Sesame Street

  9. 9.

    Eljai

    September 21, 2020 at 2:10 am

    @Major Major Major Major: So glad you had a nice time!

    Did you fly or drive?  Not that it’s any of my business.  I’m just curious how people are going about travel during covid.

    Also, long live longcat!

  10. 10.

    Major Major Major Major

    September 21, 2020 at 2:23 am

    @Eljai: flew, it was stressful

  11. 11.

    Eljai

    September 21, 2020 at 2:32 am

    @Major Major Major Major: No doubt!

  12. 12.

    bjacques

    September 21, 2020 at 3:03 am

    Long at will be remembered with HONOR. I hope Tacgnol is still hanging in there.

  13. 13.

    SectionH

    September 21, 2020 at 3:42 am

    @Major Major Major Major:  Are they still CO – wasn’t that your home base. Ish?

  14. 14.

    becca

    September 21, 2020 at 5:26 am

    my Satchmo went to rest on Saturday morning. He was nearing 19 years. I am sad and bereft and the world sucks all the more without him. He was such a tiny cat most thought he was just a kitten. Light as air with bird bones. He didn’t like people much, but he did tolerate me. I felt honored in that. Maybe he’ll find RBG in the ether. Tiny giants, they were.

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    Barney

    September 21, 2020 at 5:57 am

    Even longer has gone by since Terry Gilliam animated the Monster Cat for Monty Python:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdhyrPq3Jxc

  16. 16.

    scribbler

    September 21, 2020 at 6:35 am

    @becca:   So very sorry for your loss.

  17. 17.

    sherparick

    September 21, 2020 at 8:46 am

    A very good cat. Long may his memory live.  Also, sometimes the older the animal is, the hardest the loss hits, as it does when you lose any long time friend.

  18. 18.

    Elizabelle

    September 21, 2020 at 9:27 am

    @becca:   My condolences, Becca.  I like your idea of Satchmo and RBG in the ether.

  19. 19.

    TomatoQueen

    September 21, 2020 at 5:56 pm

    Poor old Luca greets Satchmo on the Bridge. RIP.

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