So we were watching A Garfield Christmas Special last night. At one point, Grandma makes some remark about how back in her day, all they had were “wood-burning cats.” To make a long question short, what the heck is a wood-burning cat?
It’s a far less efficient pet than an oil-burning cat.
“It’s a far less efficient pet than an oil-burning cat.”
Which themselves will seem pale beside the heat output of tomorrow’s atom powered moggies!
Yes, but the litterbox has to be at Yucca Mountain.
WAG, but I’m guessing that Jim Davis and company were going for the general effect of old-timer’s stories where when they were kids, they had to walk 50 miles through 8 foot-snow drifts uphill both ways to get to and from school, and when they got home, all they had to warm themselves up was a wood-burning stove.
I’m guessing that a wood-burning cat would be a cat without all those fancy modern conveniences that you see in today’s models.
Yeah, this is the basic idea of the joke, except that Grandma wasn’t complaining about the how kids today have it easy, but rather showing fascination with the new technology.
Sorry to bump this old thread, but I had a little something to add. I was just reading through the Garfield archives, and found that the gag in the show was based on the 25 Jan 1982 strip. That’s all.