Gravity and grammar: a feline education

[desperance]

"Down, Mac. Down. It's a relationship with the floor. You haz it."

"Barry, you can't sit on the manuscript. You can't... Oh. Barry, you may not sit on the manuscript. You may not..."

Rinse, obviously, and repeat. At least I amuse myself, when I hear myself say these things.

Comments

[lagilman]

Will you hate me forever if I tell you that my kids actually know (and mostly listen to) "Down, child"?

Boomer also understands "no." He will stop, look at me, consider if I really really mean it, and then -- not being as dumb as he looks -- back away from whatever it was he was about to do. Pandora understands every word I say -- she just knows she's a Speshul Furry Snowflake and I don't REALLY mean it)

I think it's a variant of the Editorial Voice of Command I perfected in the Old Days, in order to get certain authors (*cough*SteveStirling*cough) to behave...

[karenmiller.livejournal.com]

Hee. Also in my arsenal I have the raised eyebrow, accompanied by the deceptively mild, I wouldn't do that.

[lagilman]

That works on dogs. Not so much, in my experience, with cats. Cats can arch an eyebrow better than any human ever spawned.