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I only know I found them. I don't know why. I surely wasn't looking for them. William Blake's cat. Van...

Dubious art -- comment #1 from Mary Kay

Fri, 07 Feb 2003 01:49:35 -0500

Oh dear. Giggles and outright guffaws resound. I think I liked The Cavalier better though. http://www.literary-cat.cwc.net/Arty_cats_2.htm

Some of these looked very familiar -- I think we may have a book with some of them....

Oh there's a surprise!

MKK

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Posted February 7, 2003 1:49 AM by Mary Kay

Dubious art -- comment #2 from Dave Bell

Fri, 07 Feb 2003 13:59:56 -0500

Have I mentioned the Viking Kittens?

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Posted February 7, 2003 1:59 PM by Dave Bell

Dubious art -- comment #3 from Xopher

Fri, 07 Feb 2003 16:21:21 -0500

The Viking Kittens are unbelievably horrible! Horror Show, in fact. O Chen Horror Show.

I was hard pressed not to laugh aloud.

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Posted February 7, 2003 4:21 PM by Xopher

Dubious art -- comment #4 from Kate Yule

Fri, 07 Feb 2003 20:17:41 -0500

Hmmmm. If the Viking Kittens' goal is the Western Shore, doesn't that imply they're sailing eastward? Wouldn't west be more traditional? And why am I so sure that "Western Shore" is relative to the land mass, and not to the body of water?

Hmmm #2. Unlike dogs, cats apparently do not play poker. A shame, really: they bluff magnificently.

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Posted February 7, 2003 8:17 PM by Kate Yule

Dubious art -- comment #5 from Robert L

Fri, 07 Feb 2003 22:40:16 -0500

The Viking kittens are so art. Just pretty terrible art.

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Posted February 7, 2003 10:40 PM by Robert L

Dubious art -- comment #6 from Trent Goulding

Sat, 08 Feb 2003 00:44:47 -0500

Good Lord. The opening bars of Viking Kittens nearly made me spew liquid all over the keyboard, not least because it was unexpected. I mean, I expected wacky, just not...that.

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Posted February 8, 2003 12:44 AM by Trent Goulding

Dubious art -- comment #7 from Kathryn Cramer

Sat, 08 Feb 2003 07:16:14 -0500

...an early symptom of cat collecting?

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Posted February 8, 2003 7:16 AM by Kathryn Cramer

Dubious art -- comment #8 from Dave Bell

Sat, 08 Feb 2003 09:05:27 -0500

I feel that I should apologise for directing people to a Viking page which makes such blatant use of horned helmets.

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Posted February 8, 2003 9:05 AM by Dave Bell

Dubious art -- comment #9 from Paul Riddell

Sat, 08 Feb 2003 13:49:34 -0500

Don't knock the Viking Kittens: you now have a view into my world. You don't even want to know about the World's Meanest Box Turtle currently residing in my apartment, and how she's trying to fit zimmerit on her shell and install a LAW on top. (I dread the day someone decides to start watching Japanese monster movies over here: the first time she watches "Gamera", we're all doomed.)

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Posted February 8, 2003 1:49 PM by Paul Riddell

Dubious art -- comment #10 from Jon

Sat, 08 Feb 2003 16:49:06 -0500

Dave, I wouldn't worry about the helmet thing. Historical accuracy is the least of this page's problems.

Still, I laughed, I cried, I fell out of my chair. Good thing no one was in the library at the time.

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Posted February 8, 2003 4:49 PM by Jon

Dubious art -- comment #11 from Claude Muncey

Sat, 08 Feb 2003 17:56:57 -0500

Remembering this earlier discussion, I was wondering if anyone had identified just who Queen Anne of Brittany's patron cats were?

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Posted February 8, 2003 5:56 PM by Claude Muncey

Dubious art -- comment #12 from James D. Macdonald

Sun, 09 Feb 2003 11:02:19 -0500

The patron-saint cat on the left is undoubtedly St. Anne, patron saint of Brittany, grandmother of Jesus, wife of St. Joachim.

The other two bear martyr's crowns. The one in the center may be St. Edmund, who carries the ermine banner and clutches an arrow. The other, a female carrying a cross bottony and holding out an empty hand, I haven't yet figured out.

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Posted February 9, 2003 11:02 AM by James D. Macdonald

Dubious art -- comment #13 from Damien Warman

Sun, 09 Feb 2003 15:00:30 -0500

Kate Yule ponders: If the Viking Kittens' goal is the Western Shore, doesn't that imply they're sailing eastward?

I put it to you, Kate, that the Vikittenings are sailing to the western shore of Ireland.

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Posted February 9, 2003 3:00 PM by Damien Warman

Dubious art -- comment #14 from marty

Mon, 10 Feb 2003 12:43:02 -0500

I have had the Viking Kittens in my favorites list for quite a while now. Every so often I need to have a refresher to the days ...news.

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Posted February 10, 2003 12:43 PM by marty

Dubious art -- comment #15 from Kip

Mon, 10 Feb 2003 13:22:01 -0500

Reminds me of the days of me youth, when a friend and I decided we should recreate the world's great works of art, only populated by big-eyed cats instead of people: The Last Supper, The Guild of Cloth Merchants, and so on. Sadly, this project languished around 1980, and nothing came of it except some good sketches. Well, the torch has been borne aloft triumphantly (although with more normal-sized eyeballs). I salute them.

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Posted February 10, 2003 1:22 PM by Kip

Dubious art -- comment #16 from Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Mon, 10 Feb 2003 17:55:09 -0500

Darn, Jim sniped off the easy one. The old lady cat with all the headgear is undoubtedly Saint Anne. The rightmost saint is a martyr, but that's as far as I can take it.

It would help if I could see the original. If the reason the cat has its left arm up in that odd position is that it was originally holding a small masonry tower tucked into the crook of its elbow, then it's Saint Barbara. If it was holding a tray with eyeballs on it, it's Saint Lucy. And so forth and so on.

Saints without their emblems are as hard to sort out as an inked but not yet colored page full of superheroes.

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Posted February 10, 2003 5:55 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Dubious art -- comment #17 from James D. Macdonald

Tue, 11 Feb 2003 09:57:56 -0500

The saint on the right could be St. Helen, if the cross she's carrying is the True Cross.

St. Helen was a British girl, daughter of Old King Cole. If that crown is a royal crown rather than a martyr's crown it will work. We know from her covered hair that she's a married lady (so Virgin & Martyr is right out).

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Posted February 11, 2003 9:57 AM by James D. Macdonald

Dubious art -- comment #18 from Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Tue, 11 Feb 2003 14:42:44 -0500

By Ghu, you're right; those are crespines she's wearing. That plus the crown plus the cross ... Saint Helena. And given the central figure's crown and arrow, you've got to be right about it being Saint Edmund the Martyr.

That's three out of three. You rock.

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Posted February 11, 2003 2:42 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden