Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.
Interpretation
Cats have a comical relationship with humans, tolerating them until they can do things for themselves.
This quote humorously reflects the independent nature of cats, suggesting that they only put up with humans as long as they remain dependent on us for food and other needs. It highlights the idea that if cats were ever able to fully take care of themselves, they might not see the necessity of human companionship, emphasizing their self-sufficiency and playful disdain for our kind.
In practice
Sharing this quote at a cat lovers' gathering to highlight the funny relationship between cats and humans.
And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.
They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can say who the new Tyrant is. One man ... one vet. ... Everyone has ... the vet. Except for women, of course. And children. And criminals. And slaves. And stupid people. And people of foreign extraction. And people disapproved of for, er, various reasons. And lots of other people. But everyone apart from them. It's a very enlightened civilization.
Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.
You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.
People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't look quite like real science. But geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly fashionable chaos and complexity. And summer isn't a time. It's a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter.
It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.
I have no wish to talk nonsense." "If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.
The only weapon I've got is comedy
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.
Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.
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