The Meowing 20’s

Alarmed by savage attacks on mice, moral crusaders in 1920 enacted Inhibition, forbidding mouse-chasing by cats. However, this only drove the mouse business underground into illegal “squeakeasies” that required a password to enter.

It’s always “swordfish,” Tina M.

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15 thoughts on “The Meowing 20’s

  1. Murray C. June 21, 2016 / 11:01 am

    SQUEAKEASIES!!! Yeow, good one. Mr. Mouse sent me. Tell ‘im Mr. Von Trap is here – and he’d better not slip me a mickey or I’ll take the mickey outta HIM.

    • allein June 21, 2016 / 11:03 am

      Mickey Mouse? ?

      • Murray C. June 21, 2016 / 11:21 am

        Bingo.

        • Murray C. June 21, 2016 / 11:31 am

          Sorry, Allein, I thought you meant who the “Mister” referred to.

          • allein June 21, 2016 / 11:33 am

            Either way. 😉

      • Gigi_the cat lady June 21, 2016 / 11:25 am

        Mickey Finn / In slang, a Mickey Finn — or simply a Mickey — is a drink laced with a psychoactive drug or incapacitating agent (especially chloral hydrate) given to someone without their knowledge with intent to incapacitate them. Serving someone a Mickey is most commonly referred to as slipping someone a mickey. But in this case Mouse works as well.

        • Murray C. June 21, 2016 / 11:31 am

          Wow, very nice, GiGi (one day, many years ago, in ONE DAY I met a Gigi, a Fifi a Ceci, and a Kiki)

  2. allein June 21, 2016 / 11:04 am

    That is an evil glare if I ever saw one. I wouldn’t mess with him.

  3. Mikeyfur June 21, 2016 / 11:33 am

    Squeakeasies!! That’s gonna make me smile all day.

  4. Smartypants June 21, 2016 / 1:13 pm

    “Mr. Jingles sent me.”

  5. Arne June 21, 2016 / 1:32 pm



    • Murray C. June 21, 2016 / 3:06 pm

      ?

  6. Sixkatlady June 21, 2016 / 3:01 pm

    Awesome NTMTOM! Never imagined you’d turn this into a squeakeasy……too funny!! Tina M

  7. AJ June 21, 2016 / 7:13 pm

    I woulda thunk the password was “Tuna”

    • Emmberrann July 20, 2017 / 5:31 pm

      Nah, tuna was like a tv but without pitchers.

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