# So, a bobcat walks into a bar... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 26, 2009, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-bobcat-walks-into-a-bar/490884 "2009-03-26T17:13:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-bobcat-walks-into-a-bar/490884/21 "2009-03-26T20:39:09Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Pardon me, Roy, is that the cat that ate your new shoes? Oh, well played! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-bobcat-walks-into-a-bar/490884/22 "2009-03-26T20:50:03Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Pardon me, Roy, is that the cat that ate your new shoes? I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2009, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-bobcat-walks-into-a-bar/490884/23 "2009-03-26T21:15:07Z")
> [@The\_Weird\_One](#): > > I don’t get it. It’s a play on a line from the song “Chattanooga Choo-Choo” - “Pardon me, boy - is that the Chattanooga Choo-Choo?” ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-bobcat-walks-into-a-bar/490884/24 "2009-03-27T01:04:37Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > It’s a play on a line from the song “Chattanooga Choo-Choo” - “Pardon me, boy - is that the Chattanooga Choo-Choo?” Actually, I think it’s “Pardon me, Roy. Is that the cat that **chewed** your new shoes?” It flows better, anyway. “Cat that chewed your” sounds closer to “Chattanooga.” ---
**Author:** ![kitemaker\_chuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a88e4f/32.png) [@kitemaker\_chuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitemaker_chuck)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-bobcat-walks-into-a-bar/490884/25 "2009-03-27T05:10:23Z")
I don’t know about bobcats in bars, but I have heard of one walking into a seafood restaurant. Someone yelled, “Somebody call a carp!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-bobcat-walks-into-a-bar/490884/26 "2009-03-27T06:34:00Z")
I thought \*\*I \*\* was the one who’s demented!!! Sheesh!😃 Pretty cute stuff in that there thread, y’all! 😉 Q ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-bobcat-walks-into-a-bar/490884/27 "2009-03-27T13:57:52Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Actually, I think it’s “Pardon me, Roy. Is that the cat that **chewed** your new shoes?” It flows better, anyway. “Cat that chewed your” sounds closer to “Chattanooga.” You are absolutely right! I cannot believe I screwed that up:smack: ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-bobcat-walks-into-a-bar/490884/28 "2009-03-27T15:18:26Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > It’s a play on a line from the song “Chattanooga Choo-Choo” - “Pardon me, boy - is that the Chattanooga Choo-Choo?” Shows how dense I am this morning. I was trying to force this into a joke about the Sigfried & Roy Tiger attack. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-bobcat-walks-into-a-bar/490884/29 "2009-03-27T15:21:41Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > The impression I got from the younger set was that cougars were not considered that attractive. However, as I am that age, I might disagree. Once the younger set gets a couple of drinks under the belt, the cougars start looking pretty damn good. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-bobcat-walks-into-a-bar/490884/30 "2009-03-27T15:25:51Z")
Someone should have offered the bobcat a drink. I bet he wasn’t rabid at all, just going into the DTs. ---
**Author:** ![KlondikeGeoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-bobcat-walks-into-a-bar/490884/31 "2009-03-27T16:25:40Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > One of my favorite series of photos ever posted on this site - close encounters between **KlondikeGeoff** ’s cat and a young [bobcat](http://s25.photobucket.com/albums/c86/KlondikeGeoff/bobcat/). Thanks, **Tamerlane** , after reading about this in today;''s AZ newspaper, I came here to post a link to the pics, but you beat me to it. We have bobcats around the house all the time, but fortunately, none have been rabid. Yet. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-bobcat-walks-into-a-bar/490884/32 "2009-03-27T16:43:04Z")
News reports are saying the bobcat was rabid. Could they have possibly received the test results so quickly? I have never known our health dept. to act that quickly. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-bobcat-walks-into-a-bar/490884/33 "2009-03-27T17:35:06Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Once the younger set gets a couple of drinks **under the belt** , the cougars start looking pretty damn good. I think they’re doing it wrong…that’s not where drinks go. But it does effect below the belt… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-bobcat-walks-into-a-bar/490884/34 "2009-03-27T19:45:29Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > A buddy of mine had a [rather unpleasant encounter](http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/apnews/stories/071502/D7KP874O2.html) with one of those suckers several years ago. It’s amazing how many times you have to kill them before they actually get the message and die. Well, they are _cats_. ---
**Author:** ![Orpington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/cc9497/32.png) [@Orpington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orpington)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-bobcat-walks-into-a-bar/490884/35 "2009-03-27T22:17:25Z")
On a serious note (since I can’t think of anything funny) - in the event you should ever find yourself needing to send a critter to the great hunting ground in the sky, DON’T SHOOT IT IN THE HEAD! That’s the only way they can test for rabies, they have to examine the brain… Lots of people (well maybe I’m being too generous for some) know this is how rabies is tested for, but in the heat of the moment they forget. eta: oops, meant to say this is only an issue if the animal in question is acting suspicious for rabies - obviously your average Bambi is ok to shoot in the head… ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-bobcat-walks-into-a-bar/490884/36 "2009-03-28T00:33:34Z")
> [@The\_Weird\_One](#): > > Jeebus! What were the test results - did it have rabies? I’ve never heard of an animal attacking with that level of tenacity unless it was rabid. It’s been quite a long time since the event, but if memory serves the rabies test came back negative. It seems officials didn’t want to spring for the “batshit insane” test, though. Incidentally, I found another, more detailed [version of the story](http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=121440). And I know none of you know him, but damnit, Todd would be an absolutely stellar Doper… ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-bobcat-walks-into-a-bar/490884/37 "2009-03-28T01:11:33Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > So a bobcat walks into a bar, goes up to the first patron he sees and says “Have you met my mother?” Patron replies:“no”. Bobcat: “Then meet my paw!” > \*\*SLASH! \*\* I wouldn’t want to meet his maw either. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-bobcat-walks-into-a-bar/490884/38 "2009-03-28T07:21:42Z")
I heard it was full of rabies. Has that been confirmed one way or the other? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-a-bobcat-walks-into-a-bar/490884.md?page=1)