![]() In a further bit of satire, a phallus also dangles from her rosary.Paramount distributed the earliest cartoons from 1919 to 1921, while Winkler distributed the shorts from 1922 up to 1925, the year when Educational Pictures took over the distribution of the shorts. Thus, the nun is desperate to “get some” as a woman would naturally want, presumably from the leering man in the jester’s cap hanging out the window, who has just been emasculated. Quite the opposite, they commonly emphasized the importance of marriage, children and family bonds. Nuns and monks were widely depicted as subsumed by material desires in contrast to their vows, and Protestants had rejected celibacy as a requirement for priests. The nun wants to trade the fish that implicates abstinence from meat/lust for the meat that obviously represents carnal desire.Ĭonsidering the subject, time period (1555) and origin (Germany, as indicated by language), it is presumably Protestant propaganda. So in this picture, the proverb is interpretated (sic) in a raunchy way. The fish can be connected to the catholic tradition of eating fish on friday, or abstinence from eating meat. It would roughly translate to ‘meat gives meat, fish gives nothing’, meaning that meat is more nourishing than fish.įleisch is in German also connected to ‘Fleischeslust’, which means carnal desire. ‘Flaisch macht Flaisch’ is from the old German proverb ‘Fleisch macht Fleisch, fisch macht nisch’. I don’t officially know the story behind it, but there’s a good discussion of it on Reddit. Dating from 1555, it’s a Renaissance image. This is my favorite WTF image in a long time. ![]() Some cats like to play with toys from the pet store, but for Ari, all you need is an almond or two to get her going. It reminds me of how certain children will get bored after playing with a toy for a few minutes but will spend all day playing inside a cardboard box. One day, Ari’s owner presented her with an almond, and Ari became fascinated by it.Įver since that day, Ari’s favorite hobbies include batting almonds around on the floor, holding them in her little paw, and hiding them around the house. Her owner explains that Ari never showed interest in most toys. Ari is a black cat that has a unique way of tiptoeing around the house, constantly arches her back, and enjoys jumping and running along the wall vertically. (h/t Barry),Īri the cat has a big personality and is obsessed with a tiny almond. Lagiappe: From boingboing, we have a cat obsessed with almonds. There are 53 others at the site–go see ’em all! Magpie (not badly drawn) inspecting the butt of a cat: But many don’t look like any animal we know! I have no theory as to why this is the case, except perhaps that artists concentrated more on humans, and so the cats often have humanlike faces. See if you can find any that resemble a cat! I’ve put a few below to show you how the artists fail to observes properly. The collection of medieval cat drawings and paintings noted above can be seen at the link below (click on screenshot). ![]() The one below has a penis and testicles in its mouth, with the staff trying to swap those organs for a sardine! What’s that all about?Įnjoy this collection of bizarre-looking cats in medieval paintings Jennifer Ouellette noticed what I did: medieval painters simply could not paint cats. Sadly, they also eat ducks, and you can see a successful attack on a duck about 4 minutes in: Female fishing cats range in weight from 5.1 to 6.8 kg (11 to 15 lb), and males from 8.5 to 16 kg (19 to 35 lb), evidencing quite pronounced sexual dimorphism in size for a cat of this size. Its head-to-body length ranges from 57 to 78 cm (22 to 31 in), with a tail of 20 to 30 cm (7.9 to 11.8 in). The fishing cat is the largest cat of the Prionailurus. It is about twice the size of a domestic cat and stocky and muscular with medium to short legs. ![]() Since the cats are rare and secretive, much of this must have been filmed in a zoo.Ī note about their size, taken from Wikipedia: Here’s a seven-minute video about their habits and biology. Several years ago I saw two of them in the Singapore Zoo, but had to go at night since they are nocturnal. This first video is about the only cat that subsists on fish and dives for them: the endangered fishing cat of Southeast Asia ( Prionailurus viverrinus). Today’s trifecta involves mostly watching cat videos and looking at cat pictures.
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