purduestudent1

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/25/death.cat.ap/

Totally speechless here...someone speak

HotSalsa5

I don't like cats, this this just helps my case.

stathmk

I think you're joking that you believe it.

Now that I've found again the "Kitty is Grim Reaper" message board, I'll post some thoughts I've collected.

On Netscape.com, there was a message board that I lost the link to about Oscar the Cat. They were posting weird things like "Cats are angels," or "Cats are half little children in fur coats and half on the other side." That's too weird for me.

The kitten seriously isn't the Grim Reaper, an angel, or a psychic. The cat was described as not liking people, so maybe it hangs around people who are too sick to get out of bed, or in a coma. They died from old age or from a history of health problems.

I'm probably older than some of you and I was eating in the Cary Knight Spot in the years before they renovated it. Somebody left the tv on "The Man Show" with Jimmy Kimmel and another comedian. I know the show is lame, but they posted a weird statistic on the screen. It was worded something like, "14% of American women believe that cats die and become angels." I had a laugh from that. I already had heard some less interesting cat stories that I'm not even going to post.

On Wednesdays on the Montel Williams show, there's a con-artist or crazy old lady who's a so-called psychic named Sylvia Brown. I don't like her. She's 70 or 71 years old. She's told badly written stories, made space alien claims, claimed that her Grandmother, her Son, other people's younger kids, and even some pets are psychics. You read that last sentence correctly! She said that some pets are psychics.

I think that the more unusual something is, then the longer it sticks in your memory. Among 300 million Americans, over 1000 could die from heart problems, 1000 from cancer, and maybe 1000 from car accidents all in one day and the newscast doesn't startle you unless you have relatives that have died from that. We see a statistic that tobacco kills 400,000 a year. Not to make light of those who have died, but the media reports the news that will get the higher ratings.

megabass31

Germans....

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PwrRngr

It's a thread revival, this is old news!

stathmk

Today is December 31st. The "Kitty is Grim Reaper" story is #1 of the "Top 11 Weird News Stories of 2007." On frame 11 of the slideshow, just click on the right arrow to skip past the advertisement to the 11th place story. It takes a few seconds to load.

At the bottom of that same Netscape page, they have a slideshow of 33 "Far-Out Photos of the Year." I like that photo #33 has a cat with a red fluorescent protein that makes it glow in the dark when exposed to ultrviolet rays.

The other weird story this year that sticks out in my memory would be photo #29 of toddler Lakshmi from Bihar, India. She had 2 extra arms and 2 extra legs because of the parasitic twin. These rural Indians believe in god reincarnation, and believe that she's the reincarnation of the Hindu goddess of wealth. She had the extra arms and legs removed and survives. I think that 50 to 60 years from now, she will have the best story to tell her grandchildren.