Purrs In Our Hearts - Cat Forum UK
Cat General => General Cat Chat => Topic started by: Sue P (Paddysmum) on June 07, 2007, 12:11:25 PM
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Midnight. A knock at the door.
Open it? Better had.
Three heavy cats, mean and bad.
They offer protection. I ask, 'What for?'
The Boss-cat snarls, 'You know the score.
Listen man and listen good
If you wanna stay in the neighbourhood,
Pay your dues or the toms will call
And wail each night on the backyard wall.
Mangle the flowers, and as for the lawn
a smelly minefield awaits you at dawn.'
These guys meant business without a doubt
Three cans of tuna, I handed them out.
They then disappeared like bats into hell
Those bad, bad cats from the CPL.
by Roger McGough
(Taken from the book "Bad Bad Cats")
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:rofl: :rofl:
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That's brilliant :rofl: :evillaugh: :rofl: :evillaugh:
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It made me laugh :evillaugh: can just see a few of ours doing that!
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i think monkey would be first inline as a bully boy. who else is gonna join him?
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They then disappeared like bats into hell
Those bad, bad cats from the CPL.
It was read out initially at a CP meeting a few years ago and caused a lot of controversy.
Especially about the last line.
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From what I know about Roger McGough, I doubt if it was really meant to be derogatory. It would probably sound better if he read it out himself though.It was his voice I imagined as I read it, he has a very laconic way of talking.
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It would probably sound better if he read it out himself though.It was his voice I imagined as I read it
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It could well have been him that did read it out, I cannot quite remember.
I doubt if it was really meant to be derogatory.
To be honest when I heard it I too thought it in very poor taste and I was very surprised that he had written such a thing.
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What about changing the last line to,
Those bad, bad cats unneutered aswell.
Very funny!
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Don't think he would have intended to be derogatory Ela - most of his poetry is tongue in cheek
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And just to add - wouldn't want to offend any CPL'ers out there! But it still made me laugh :)
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I dont think its meaning the actual Cats protection but cats that are going about the neighbour hood offering protection.
It made me laugh too. :)
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And just to add - wouldn't want to offend any CPL'ers out there!
None taken, it is just that I know it cause much controversy at the time and I understand why Although someone at HQ must have approved it.
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I dont think its meaning the actual Cats protection but cats that are going about the neighbour hood offering protection.
It was the last line that people took offence to 'Those bad, bad cats from the CPL'.
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I suppose people could take it the wrong way and think cats from the CP are bad? Very few though
Argh whats happened there? Big ass cat sat on comp and stole half the page sorry :-:
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Prob'ly a Gangsta cat Ela :evillaugh: witness CC-s catattack :rofl:
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Hey them CPL letters are the first initalls of the humans in my house, so maybe my cats are CPL cats? Id better watch out!
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See? See? You betta watch 'dem puddies. (count their tins of tuna..... ;))
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It is quite funny, only the old-school "blue rinse" type CPL ladies could be offended :evillaugh:
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:shify: Its ok now they all cuddled up on my bed, phew!
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I'm a big fan of Roger McGough and his poetry and I thought this poem was really funny :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
I defo didn't read it that he was taking the mick or trying to put people down in any way ;D
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Loved that :rofl: :rofl:
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Ditto> only meant in fun & fun it is :rofl:
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It is quite funny, only the old-school "blue rinse" type CPL ladies could be offended
Thank you Mark, but I have never had a blue rince in my life and and very young at heart.
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I'm sure you aren't like that Ela,
I was thinking more along the lines of the "Jolly Hockey Sticks" WI garden party types :evillaugh:
I know they still exist as my mum belonged to the WI until recently :evillaugh:
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defo didn't read it that he was taking the mick or put people down in ant way.
It was not seen at a slight on CP but a slight at cats. What people say about us goes over the head. My goodness if we worried about what people said about us we would have a nervous breakdown, often I am called a cow (when someone can’t have what they want, a cat for instance, also when they come out with something like that it endorses my decision) but it doesn’t bother me a bit.
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I was thinking more along the lines of the "Jolly Hockey Sticks" WI garden party types
I know they still exist as my mum belonged to the WI until recently
I am sure the do exist, but we in our branch certainly don't have anyone like that, in fact I have never met anyone (in CP anyway) that was remotly like that. I just think if anyone says anything about cats we don't like (even if it is to make rhyme) we don't like it.
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I dunno but I reckon if people were in some way influenced by Rog's poem into thinking cats offered for adoption by the CPL were in some way "Borstal Boys" or juvenile delinquents and were then put off the idea of owning cats for life, that mightn't be a bad idea - it could deter the less committed kind of cat owner......
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Damn! You'll never guess what just happened - I was putting me blue rinse on, when I got some in me eyes. I went for the towel, tripped over me bloody hockey stick and I swear to God I heard a cat laugh! :shify:
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I dunno but I reckon if people were in some way influenced by Rog's poem into thinking cats offered for adoption by the CPL were in some way "Borstal Boys" or juvenile delinquents and were then put off the idea of owning cats for life, that mightn't be a bad idea - it could deter the less committed kind of cat owner......[/quote
That is exactly the thought of some people.