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.
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.
Mickey Mouse? ?
Bingo.
Sorry, Allein, I thought you meant who the “Mister” referred to.
Either way. 😉
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.
Wow, very nice, GiGi (one day, many years ago, in ONE DAY I met a Gigi, a Fifi a Ceci, and a Kiki)
That is an evil glare if I ever saw one. I wouldn’t mess with him.
Squeakeasies!! That’s gonna make me smile all day.
“Mr. Jingles sent me.”
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Awesome NTMTOM! Never imagined you’d turn this into a squeakeasy……too funny!! Tina M
I woulda thunk the password was “Tuna”
Nah, tuna was like a tv but without pitchers.