Is this some kind of famous character from a long time ago???????

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When I was 5 I had a nightmare about THIS VERY THING ABOVE literally the exact same creature, he took his hand out of that pocket and revealed a SKELETAL HAND. I thought I made this up in a twisted 5 year old mind but I have found it on the internets????? Help!

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:31 (twenty years ago)

Don't tell me about Puss in Boots because he is clearly neither french nor are there boots involved, btw.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:33 (twenty years ago)

i think it's the cat in the hat

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:33 (twenty years ago)

I think that's the Victorian Era version of that "Your Pet In Uniform" portrait website.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:33 (twenty years ago)

Or possibly Mr. Peanut before the Depression.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:34 (twenty years ago)

I found that on img src for "owl" btw. Not really owly if you ask me but opened up a huge can of worms for me!!!

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:35 (twenty years ago)

meowl

― Renard (Renard), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:43 (twenty years ago)

It's Roffles, the Gentleman Cat-Burglar.

― Mingus Realty (noodle vague), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:52 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2004/20041124h.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:56 (twenty years ago)

HE IS FAMOUS!

err penny-arcade famous I guess. Catsby?? Interesting.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:57 (twenty years ago)

http://zone.artizans.com/images/previews/VAL100.300.jpg

http://pics.vintagepostcards.com/f/f7930.jpg

Cats in monocles seems to be a long-running artistic theme with no clear origin. Some sort of ancestral memory perhaps?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 20 April 2006 20:06 (twenty years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Ulysses_Grant_1870-1880.jpg/450px-Ulysses_Grant_1870-1880.jpg

That root photo looks very familiar to me. This ain't it, but it's close.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 20 April 2006 20:12 (twenty years ago)

Posh Tiger prototype?

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 20 April 2006 20:13 (twenty years ago)

Ach lieber, Louis Wain's paintings are always scary! The post victorian picnic kitties are scary, and so are the balls out mantal institution astral mescaline cat nightmares:

http://www.outsiderart.co.uk/wain/medium/wain10.jpg http://www.outsiderart.co.uk/wain/medium/wain5.jpg

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 20 April 2006 20:24 (twenty years ago)

But just as creepy:
http://www.literary-cat.cwc.net/images/wain.jpg
Nick Cave collects this shit, which makes total sense.

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 20 April 2006 20:25 (twenty years ago)

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/FOT/FN00407.jpg

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 20:26 (twenty years ago)

It's from the Queen Victoria episode of the new Doctor Who.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 20 April 2006 21:16 (twenty years ago)

Don't know, but you're right...pretty damn disturbing. I rather wish I hadn't clicked on your post! (No offense, mind you.)

― Brad Morgan (Wolverinefan2), Thursday, 20 April 2006 22:24 (twenty years ago)

I think it's the maniacal (moniocle?) look in the cat's eyes, like behind this genteel veneer is a feral hunger for human flesh.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 20 April 2006 22:31 (twenty years ago)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0347618/

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 20 April 2006 22:32 (twenty years ago)

hahaha "a dapper cat statuette come to life"!

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 20 April 2006 22:35 (twenty years ago)

that's what i have in my okcupid profile

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 20 April 2006 22:35 (twenty years ago)

that IMDB link played a scary sound at me, wtf?

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 23:54 (twenty years ago)

fuck some dapper cats dude, that shits terrifying.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 23:54 (twenty years ago)

Is it Top Cat before he started living in a rubbish bin?

― S- (sgh), Friday, 21 April 2006 03:38 (twenty years ago)

Ally!!!!

Tim Curry .... The Cat King (voice: English version)

!!!

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 21 April 2006 03:43 (twenty years ago)

The hell is with that Penny Arcade strip? *freaked the fuck out*

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 21 April 2006 04:06 (twenty years ago)

Reminds me a lot of Behemoth from Master and Margarita. Have you read it Ally? No skeletal hand, but still...

― someone let this mitya out! (mitya), Friday, 21 April 2006 04:14 (twenty years ago)

http://myspace-733.vo.llnwd.net/00567/33/74/567874733_l.jpg

― emil.y (emil.y), Friday, 21 April 2006 09:22 (twenty years ago)

hehe

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 21 April 2006 09:26 (twenty years ago)

wrinklepaws, man about town

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 21 April 2006 09:31 (twenty years ago)

all hail posh tiger

― teh_kit says 'FACES' (g-kit), Friday, 21 April 2006 10:29 (twenty years ago)

Reminds me a lot of Behemoth from Master and Margarita.

me too

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 21 April 2006 11:37 (twenty years ago)

http://www.longitudebooks.com/images/book_large/RUS44.jpg http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/13/ac/6c5492c008a0d2d5b1b46010.L.jpg http://g-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/1d/fb/facfd250fca0986940228010._AA240_.L.jpg

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 21 April 2006 11:40 (twenty years ago)

http://www.cyberussr.com/rus/gal/begemot3.jpg

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 21 April 2006 11:46 (twenty years ago)

Jesus, that's unsettling.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Friday, 21 April 2006 11:52 (twenty years ago)

oh my god its pyewackette

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:26 (twenty years ago)

http://www.film.org.pl/anime/grafika/bottom/cat_returns.jpg

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:51 (twenty years ago)

yeah i tht of cat returns also, but no monocle °(

but i think ally is right, there IS some famous long-ago character

other plausible lookey-likeys =
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/comment/Scott/images/01front/S007.jpg http://nostalgiasattic.com/cigcards/chesterton.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:59 (twenty years ago)

l-r theodor "teddy" roosevelt and g.k.chesterton

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:07 (twenty years ago)

guys I was a smart kid but I didn't read Master and Margarita until I was more like 8.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:10 (twenty years ago)

haha i googled "famous cats" and this fellow came up:
http://www.penmarric.ns.ca/graphics/photos2/lanyap1.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:16 (twenty years ago)

http://www.thismoment.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/blog/pmoore.jpg

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:17 (twenty years ago)

oh happycat

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:23 (twenty years ago)

http://www.chrisbeetles.com/img/pictures/artists/Wain_Louis/K3289-b.jpg

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:26 (twenty years ago)

http://scoopsnoodle.com/lix/catmon.jpg

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:10 (twenty years ago)

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:12 (twenty years ago)

haha i thought of posh tiger when i first saw this too.

that comic was pure gold.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:16 (twenty years ago)

incidentally, you can see all the posh tiger strips here

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:20 (twenty years ago)

BUSTOPHER JONES
that cat is BUSTOPHER JONES
where's my lunch

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:50 (twenty years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Possum%27s_Book_of_Practical_Cats

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:50 (twenty years ago)

Man TS Eliot really has a lot to answer for doesn't he

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:59 (twenty years ago)

He is described as the St. James's Street Cat, and is a regular visitor to many gentlemen's clubs

well then.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 21 April 2006 15:02 (twenty years ago)

http://www.polycarpou.com/bustopher.jpg

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 21 April 2006 15:05 (twenty years ago)

http://reallyuseful.com/rug/shows/cats/images/news_header_01.jpg

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 21 April 2006 15:05 (twenty years ago)

oh my god its pyewackette

-- sunny successor (gangsta...), April 21st, 2006 8:26 AM. (katharine) (later)

Links!

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 21 April 2006 15:56 (twenty years ago)

Bustopher Jones is portrayed by James Barron in the Cats movie. In the original West End show, and accompanying album he was played by Brian Blessed.

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 21 April 2006 23:23 (twenty years ago)

http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/9148/catbody6lb.jpg

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 21 April 2006 23:29 (twenty years ago)

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