Friday, January 10, 2025

Cat and mouse

From Jerry Pinkney's illustrations for Aesop's  fable of the Lion and the Mouse:


From a children's book I found today, telling the story of the Chinese zodiac:


Are lions and cats really interchangeable, though? As it happens, I also ran across this meme today:

3 comments:

Ben Pratt said...

I loaded the main page of this blog yesterday (Friday) and started reading this post but wasn't able to finish it until today. Just a half hour before I finished it my wife showed me a social media post in which an anonymous poster asked for input after lying about having a credential on a job application.

Wm Jas Tychonievich said...

Interesting coincidence -- but you started the post but weren't able to finish it? It's like four sentences.

Ben Pratt said...

I read very, very slowly.

Just kidding! I started reading the post during a brief lull in a busy multi-day event, only to finish it after arriving home.

Frankenstein nitpicking sync

I saw this today on Anglin's weekly meme dump. How does this not end with Dan saying, "I think you mean so much  fun"? Later i...