Tania
  • mark
    April 9, 2009

    Oh god I saw the title and I was like, oh, it must be the Camper Van Beethoven song and then I was like, wait, that song is named after Patty Hearst, and then I was like oh god I e-mailed Dorothy like five years ago about a comic that I thought had a Camper Van Beethoven joke in it and now I am that guy who reads cat and girl and just assumes all of the jokes are about camper van beethoven.

  • Maxwell Hammer
    April 9, 2009

    This should be a tshirt.

  • Aaron(swifteye)
    April 9, 2009

    What girl said actually explains a lot. For some unknown reason people especially Americans seem to morph words to mean something they don’t really mean. I personally know a certain N word just means socially disadvantaged persons. We just morphed it to apply to a particular race of people. Now I could’ve used less caustic words like dork, maverick, or irony which are also words that kinda got forced into meaning things that meant something else but I feel the N word kinda tops it for the fact that both the victim and the user use incorrectly.

    It’s interesting how nobody said anything in the last panel. If it was a cartoon they would’ve crept off camera by then. Incidentally I like to think girl’s voice actor might sound something like Mandy from the grim adventures of billy and Mandy but that’s just me. Also cat wearing a farmers outfit reminds me of his cousin from the country. I wonder what became of him?

  • Jackson
    April 9, 2009

    Words get Stockholm Syndrome.

    Anyway, Girl voiced by Grey DeLisle? I could see it. Well, hear it. You know what I mean.

  • Nny
    April 9, 2009

    Girl’s a girl with a devious little mind

  • idkrash
    April 9, 2009

    T-shirt: (text over image)
    Words mean what we TELL them to mean.
    Image

    Arm patch: (top and bottom rocker with image in center)
    Words mean what
    image
    we TELL them to mean.

    I’ve always wanted a t-shirt that read. It’s not my fault; besides, given enough time you will find a way to blame yourself.

  • Jackson
    April 9, 2009

    …So who would voice Cat, then?

  • David Miller
    April 9, 2009

    I think this kind of touches on Harry G. Frankfurt’s notion of ‘bullshit’, whereby, a person (usually a politician or news-media-spokesperson) can say something that is not factually false, but also not true. He defines ‘bullshit’ as any time a person says something that gives the illusion of meaning, without actually meaning anything (AKA the Sarah Palin technique)

    And, as always, I love your imaginative imagery. There is just something inherently funny in thinking about words being held captive in a warehouse by the sea.

  • Billy Fore
    April 9, 2009

    Kelsey Grammar as “Cat”

  • d1rge
    April 9, 2009

    Scheming-psycho Girl needs to make more appearances.

  • K. Signal Eingang
    April 9, 2009

    mark – thanks for explaining the title, I would never have got that. Or never bothered to.

    Aaron – assuming you’re talking about what I assume you’re talking about, you’re repeating a myth. I have no idea where the idea got started that “nigger” was a slur against the disadvantaged. It’s a corruption of “negro” and has always referred to those with skin of a darker persuasion. Read any book from the 18th or 19th century that uses the word – Twain, Poe, I seem to recall Kipling being pretty free with it but I never kippled much… the meaning couldn’t be clearer. Moreover it’s clear that in many cases it wasn’t thought of as insulting by the speaker, it was just the common term. So. You’re wrong. Thank you.

  • Aaron(swifteye)
    April 9, 2009

    I did kinda get my answer from the http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nigger But hey what do I know? I’ve just dealt with the word my entire life.

    Kelsey Grammar as cat eh? I can see it.

  • Nny
    April 9, 2009

    bootylicious didnt used to be a word. i think its sad that it is now.

  • Dorothy
    April 9, 2009

    If Patty Worst was never a Garbage Pail Kid she should have been.

    Patty Wurst and Tania Lasagna?

  • mark
    April 9, 2009

    All head on the end of a sausage.
    All eyepatch and missing front tooth.

  • Dorothy
    April 9, 2009

    Patty Hearse and Tania Sucker.

  • ziRta
    April 9, 2009

    Beautifully wise words :) Well meant, girl!

  • Brandon
    April 12, 2009

    If words mean what we TEll them to mean, how do we tell them to mean something? With other words? I smell a regress looming…

  • chase
    March 10, 2010

    oh i love this one so much. and at the risk of this already having been said (i didn’t read any of the comments), panel 6 is so quintessentially cat & girl i want it on a t-shirt. or a pillow case.

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