CATASTROPHY

I GAVE MY STRESSED OUT FELINE TOO MUCH ELIXIR. NOW SHE’S CATATONIC

What’s so funny about this? What is it about cat pictures on the internet? Although there are an estimated 90 million cats in the United States alone, there must be at least ten times that number of photographs of them on social media. If you add a cat to just about anything you post, you’ll easily get 3-4 times as many hits and likes than if you didn’t add the cat. So here I am shamelessly doing an audioboo about a cat. You’ll notice the set-up doesn’t even use the word “cat’. Rather, it’s the synonym “feline”. Why use such a fancy word? The answer is simply because the punch line is a pun using the word “cat”. But I may be getting ahead of myself. Back in the set-up we learned that the feline in question was given some sort of elixir or libation, perhaps because she was ill. An “elixir” is a magical drink or potion. Usually it has to do with curing a physical ailment or disease. It may also be called a “tonic”. But