Bartcop Entertainment - Tuesday, 3 September, 2002
Tuesday
3 September, 2002
(Updated Daily)
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Issue #18
Disinfotainment Today
By Michael Dare
ISSUE #18
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Good Idea of the Week
Historical Debunk of the Week
We've got free speech as long as we're not in public when Bush is around. Here's footage of the
protest in Portland that didn't get shown on national television, from
Cascadia Media Collective, Guerrilla Media from Eugene, Oregon.
The Scariest Site of the Week
Scumbags of the Week
Egypt's delegation at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg has said that it opposes the
agreement between Israel and Jordan to build an $800 million pipeline to rescue the shrinking Dead Sea because it goes against Arab League resolutions banning co-operation between Israel and Arab states.
Video of the Week
Here's a video to Pink Floyd's
Money that's probably not what they had in mind.
Joke from Planet Proctor
Michael Caine walks up to Milton Berle during a party and asks, "What kind of cigar are you smoking, there?"
"It's a Lawrence Welk." says Berle.
"What's a Lawrence Welk?" Caine asks.
Milton says, "It's a piece of crap with a band wrapped around it."
One Reason Not to Worry Over the Death of Linda Lovelace
No, Really, I Didn't Make This Up
Maniacs Bouncing on their Butts
for Peace
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's
plan goes like this: He will build 3,000 "Peace Palaces" around the world, including one somewhere near Washington. In each palace, hundreds of his followers will be engaged full time in "yogic flying" -- an advanced version of Transcendental Meditation in which the meditators sort of hop around the room while sitting cross-legged. This practice, he says, sends out powerful positive vibrations that reduce stress, crime and violence. With hundreds of people doing yogic flying in 3,000 different places, peace will break out all over.
False Values of the Week
P. Diddy sent a
list of rules to everybody attending his recent party.
Time Waster of the Week
See if you can stop playing
this game before getting to level 25.
Why Afghani Women Should Keep Their Burqas On
But Cocaine is
Illegal
Starbucks has 4,479 locations in North America, opening three or four stores a day, including 147 different locations in Washington D.C. alone.
The Male Rules
From Patty Paul
1. It is important to find a woman that cooks and cleans.
2. It is important to find a woman that makes good money.
3. It is important to find a woman that likes to have sex.
4. It is important that these three women never meet.
Insane E-Mail of the Week
"I have always wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are both controlled by the Illuminati and the Changelings, why are they so different in their beliefs and attitudes? Then I began to realize that when Clinton and the Democrats were in control, it was the Betelgeuse Changelings that I had always been dealing with. But now that Bush was in office and the Republicans were in control, all of a sudden the Bellatrix Changelings come to the forefront. Then I was thinking how the Democrats are considered to be the "Left" of the political spectrum, and the Republicans are considered to be the "Right". Well, take a look at Orion some night. Betelgeuse and Bellatrix are the two brightest stars at the top of Orion, and guess what? Betelgeuse is on the Left, and Bellatrix is on the Right. Coincidence? I doubt it."
- name left off for good reason -
OBL Watch
Dear Dr. Hollywood,
So what's the problem with offering for sale ''edited for television'' versions of movies like
these guys are doing? It's not ''banning'' or ''book burning'' the ''director's vision'' of what the film should be.
Dan
Dear Dan,
I think those people are insane and that their entire premise is bankrupt. They are so wrong in every way that it's hard to know where to start in explaining why they should have their eyes gouged out with a fork.
Let's take their statement "We think a jury will want to agree with us that you shouldn't be required to watch what you find objectionable." Who the fuck is "requiring" that anyone watch anything? There's already a ratings system, imperfect though it may be, that tells viewers whether a film is okay for children. Anyone who wants to protect their children from objectionable language or violence or nudity need simply show them films rated G or PG. There. Problem solved. They're solving a problem that doesn't exist. Anybody who wants to show their children a version of Taxi Driver with all the violence removed or American Pie with all the sex removed is insane.
Let's take Amistad, a brilliant Steven
Spielberg film rated R for violence and nudity. I would assume these mental midgets have excised the violence and nudity, making the film more child friendly.
Amistad is a fantastic history lesson that every parent should show to their children. I've shown it to mine, despite the R rating, and yes indeed there's a scene in it with violence and nudity that shocked the hell out of them, and me too. It's the most horrifying scene I've ever seen in a movie.
Slave traders discover they haven't got enough food for their human cargo, so they decide to dispose of them. Dozens of beautiful black naked human beings are chained to a weight and simply thrown overboard. There's an absolutely unforgettable shot from the bottom of the ocean, looking up at a chain of naked people sinking to their death.
I was horrified. My children were horrified. Need I point out that the point of the scene was to horrify us? They turned to me and said "Dad, did this really happen?" I said "Yes" and I didn't have to explain any further. They weren't horrified by THE NUDITY. They were horrified by MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN. A pretty goddam important lesson, one I felt obligated to teach my children, despite the fact they saw some tits.
Wanna bet that's the scene these ignorant assholes cut out of the picture?
What exactly are they protecting their children from? Nudity? They can go fuck themselves. The naked human being is beautiful. (Generally speaking. Please don't send me naked pictures of Pavarotti.)
I just saw the sanitized version of Last Summer, a film about two teenage boys who are driven so mad with lust over the sight of Barbara Hershey's breasts that they rape Cathy Burns. Guess what was left out of the picture, even though it was supposedly uncut on satellite TV? That's right, Barbara Hershey's breasts. Hurray, now kids can watch Last Summer without being exposed to the magnificence of Barbara Hershey's teenage torso while seeing a film that pretty much makes no sense. Anybody who thinks it's okay for children to see a rape but bad for them to see breasts is insane.
There's no reason to sanitize Last Summer. It's an adult film in the best sense of the word, a serious film about sex that's meant for adults. To sanitize it for children destroys the picture. There are sex comedies full of vulgar jokes and serious movies that explore the depths of human sexuality. Both are unquestionably not for children. Need I point out the obvious solution? Leave them alone and DON'T SHOW THEM TO CHILDREN.
There are films that exploit violence, making it fun to watch, and others, like Saving Private Ryan, that deliberately show us the actual result of violence, showing that it most certainly is NOT fun. Cutting all the most violent shots out of the opening of Saving Private Ryan changes it to a film that makes it fun to watch instead of one that turns us AGAINST violence by proving how horrifying it really is. They're changing the point of the picture. Anybody who thinks Saving Private Ryan would be better with the ultra-violence removed is an idiot.
These are the same cretins who don't want their kids to see Michelangelo's David unless his dick is covered with a fig leaf. Someone should hijack a plane and crash it into their corporate offices. Good riddance.
WHO'S GOING TO HELL THIS WEEK?
September 2, 2002
UNDO THE COUP
CARTOON FROM HELL
QUIZ FROM HELL
Questions for George W. Bush...
Are you absolutely certain that Osama bin Laden does not already have a weapon of mass destruction hidden somewhere in the United States?
If he does have a weapon of mass destruction hidden somewhere in the United States, isn't it possible he's just waiting for the right excuse to set it off?
Wouldn't the U.S. invading Iraq give him just the motivation he's looking for?
If we invade Iraq strictly on your say-so, and bin Laden sets off a weapon of mass destruction in the United States in retaliation, wouldn't the loss of American life be your fault?
Are you an idiot?
TOYS FROM HELL
CONTRADICTION FROM HELL
HISTORY LESSON FROM HELL
Larry King explains the use of the word
fuck.
SATAN DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW
To get crayon marks off walls, just use a hairdryer to heat them up, then wipe them off with a paper towel.
CROP CIRCLE FROM HELL
Winchester, Hampshire, Aug 2002 (Steve Alexander)
SHAKESPEARE FROM HELL
Hipsters, flipsters, and finger-poppin' daddies,
Knock me your lobes,
I came to lay Caesar out,
Not to hip you to him.
The bad jazz that a cat blows,
Wails long after he's cut out.
The groovy is often stashed with their frames,
So don't put Caesar down.
The swinging Brutus hath laid a story on you
That Caesar was hungry for power.
If it were so, it was a sad drag,
And sadly hath the Caesar cat answered it.
Here with a pass from Brutus and the other brass,
For Brutus is a worthy stud,
Yea, so are they all worthy studs,
Though their stallions never sleep.
I came to wail at Caesar's wake.
He was my buddy, and he leveled with me.
Yet Brutus digs that he has eyes for power,
And Brutus is a solid cat...
- Lord Buckley -
QUOTES FROM HELL
"I haven't got a dream that hasn't been repossessed."
- Bob Dylan, Bye and Bye -
"If the government creates any regulations to oppress its people than it has no right to legislate."
- James Madison -
"You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money."
- P.J. O'Rourke -
"There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle."
- Alexis de Tocqueville -
"It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving."
- Mother Theresa -
"The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice."
- Anonymous -
"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."
- Martin Luther King Jr. -
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
- Albert Einstein -
"If a politician found out that he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner."
- H. L. Mencken -
By objective standards, the leading managers of the U.S. economy are collectively, clinically insane."
- Lyndon LaRouche -
"He's rash. He's a destroyer of the world. When we create higher consciousness, he'll be out."
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on GWB -
"You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, 'My God, you're right! I never would've thought of that!'"
- Dave Barry -
"Bovine."
- George W. Bush upon passing a herd of cattle on a jog -
SITES FROM HELL
Mandatory reading: Anti-personnel cluster bombs, cruise missiles, B-52-sewn carpet bombs and 2000-pound blockbusters were rained indiscriminately onto the inhabitants of countless primitive Afghan mud hut villages in an orgiastic and vengeful American killing spree, the purpose of which was, ostensibly, to "git bin Laden." Bin Laden was apparently not gotten, but many simple Afghan peasants who never heard of bin Laden were killed. - From
Bush cynical, unimaginative, reactive opportunist.
While Saddam is undoubtedly a murderous dictator who does finance fundamentalist terrorist groups, Saddam is for the most part a secular murderous dictator who has historically calculated his military activities in terms of real politic. As far as we know, neither he nor any of the terrorist groups he finances have ever directly attacked the United States. By way of comparison, the last secular leader driven from power in the Middle East was also a murderous dictator; the Shah of Iran. He was replaced by the Ayatollah Khomeini, who immediately declared America the "Great Satan" and seized 52 American hostages. Given that background, it is fair to ask, if the United States invades Iraq, will whoever replaces Saddam be better or worse? - From
The Coming Slaughter.
Everyone who thinks cutting down the forests to prevent fires is a good idea, raise your hand, otherwise click
here.
According to a report mandated by a U.N. resolution on May 7, the number of Palestinian casualties in
Jenin was 55, most of whom were combatants. Not quite the massacre we were told about.
Is the U.S. military behind crop circles?
Here's a strangely plausible explanation.
Okay, I created the
Save the Plankton site as a joke, but it turns out plankton levels are actually falling
dangerously low and the results could be disastrous.
Okay,
here's a new reason why JFK might have been assassinated.
Jeff Crook is
Mad as Hell about the riot police in Portland spraying pepper spray at babies but hey, if you can't laugh at totalitarianism, what can you laugh at?
Janis Ian gives her music away for free so she can make money.
Where the hell did Saddam Hussein get the idea to use
germ warfare against his own people? Clue #1: American Indians. Clue #2: blankets with smallpox.
Looking for the latest in suicide bomber squad uniforms? Go to
Fatwa Sam's.
Confused? Having difficulty telling the good guys from the bad guys? Use
this handy guide to tell the difference between Terrorists and the Bush Administration.
What do
1,130 women have to do at the same time in order to make it into the Guinness Book of Records? Show their tits, that's what.
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'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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He Was Busy, Again!
the worried shrimp
Supreme Commander
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
At least it wasn't as hot as Sunday!
Late Sunday/Monday night, I was up as usual, and the only thing on was the Jerry Lewis telethon. Caught a bit of the Branson, MO, sets....poor Andy Williams - his face seemed to
be so botoxed only his lips moved. And there he was working with Glen Campbell and Yakov Smirnoff. Used to be familiar with Branson, before it became Nashville-west. A long time ago I was quite partial to
caving, and Branson has/had some incredible offerings.
On Monday, about 3000 invited guests got to see the new cathedral, the 3rd largest in the world, and what I consider the 'Monument to Mahony'. Nearly $200 million to build a fortress (picture below). The local news keeps reporting (and I'm looking for a source to link to) about
the 30,000 mausoleum spaces in the basement, with a starting price of $50,000. Hmmmmm....perhaps they've built a really big needle, or bred really tiny camels? Hey - you can also buy the Cardinal's special brand of chardonnay at the souvenir store, too. Jeez.
The poor kid had a hard time getting to sleep. First day of fourth grade in the am. His class size will double, and I don't think that's a good thing. From 20 kids to 40, in the same size classroom.
Repeating some pictures today. 'Gladys' (my computers name) has been verklempt for the last 2 days. Every time I try to download a pic, get a nasty 'error', and end up seeing Groucho (the desktop image/wallpaper), as Rufus T. Firefly. Hail Freedonia!
Tonight, Tuesday, CBS has it's usual 'Trifecta' of reruns - 'JAG', 'The Guardian', and 'Judging Amy'.
Scheduled on a fresh Dave are Amanda Peet and comic Tom Dreesen.
On a rerun Craiggers, the scheduled guests are Ben Stein, Serena Altschul, and Trey Anastasio.
NBC airs a fresh 'special' with promise - 'The 40th Anniversary Of The Improv' (with vintage clips of Richard Pryor), followed by reruns of 'Frasier' and 'Just Shoot Me'. The evening wraps with 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a fresh Jay are Dennis Miller, 97-year-old twins Sam and Emil Chiavetta, and Boxcar Racer.
Scheduled on a fresh Conan are Denis Leary and Eve.
Scheduled on a fresh Carson Daly are John Miller and Audiovent.
ABC starts the night with 2 reruns of 'Jim', then a fresh (to ABC) 'Monk', followed by a fresh part 1 (of 6) 'In Search Of America'.
The WB has reruns of 'Gilmore Girls' and 'Smallville'.
Faux starts the night with an hour-long rerun of a 'That 70's Show' compilation. Then, it's the next-to-the-last 'American Idol: The Search For A Superstar'.
UPN has a rerun of 'Buffy', then 2 reruns of 'The Parkers'.
AMC has another one of my favorites -
The Manchurian Candidate (1962). Angela Lansbury plays one bad mother! And as good as the movie is, the book is better.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
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The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels is pictured August 29, 2002, as the Roman Catholic Church prepares for the dedication of the world's newest cathedral
in Los Angles on September 2. The cathedral, with its 3,000-seat main church, 11 chapels, bell tower, conference center and public plaza is designed to stand
for three centuries.The $163 million complex is outfitted with $30 million in art and furnishings.
Photo by Jim Ruymen
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Talking About Style
Mick Jagger
When Mick Jagger gets on stage, he not only has to be a rock star, he has to dress like one.
"Part of the process of going onstage is to become a stage person," Jagger said in this week's New Yorker magazine. "Even if I wore these trousers on the
day I put them on for the stage, they're stage trousers. Getting dressed. Any actor will tell you the same."
The Rolling Stones' lead singer says he has rigid specifications for everything he wears on stage, but most importantly his pants must be properly tailored.
"You're in them a lot more than anything else," Jagger said. "They've got to keep their shape. And the trouble is, stretch fabrics start to bag."
Mick Jagger
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Facing Tough Sell
Online Music Sites
Online subscription music sites have finally arrived. But there's been little fanfare, and so far almost no one is buying.
Free music-swapping services continue to attract millions of new users despite the recording industry's legal efforts to shutter them, and few consumers are even
aware of the handful of pay sites that have emerged over the last year.
That's unlikely to change — unless the new sites begin to offer compelling, innovative features that set them apart from the free networks, consumers and analysts say.
None of the leading pay sites, which include Listen.com, pressplay, MusicNet and FullAudio, have done much to employ clever technologies to spice up the experience of
discovering and purchasing music. Instead, they offer limited downloads that actually expire when a customer ends a subscription.
Analysts estimate that less than 100,000 people have bought pay subscriptions.
For a lot more, Online Music Sites
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In Chicago
The Who
Roadies at last week's Who concert in Chicago were probably wishing they could fade away when Roger Daltry, ticked off about bad sound, went ballistic onstage. The rockers had almost
finished playing "Sea and Sand" when Daltry blew up. "What's with this hissing?" Daltry growled and stopped playing. As Pete Townshend stood with arms crossed and fans stared open-mouthed,
Daltry ranted, "God, after all these years you think we could get good help! We're doing it over and we're doing it right this time." After getting Townshend a new guitar, they did.
The Who
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Man With An Opinion
Robert Wagner
Robert Wagner says it's easy for Rob Lowe to play a younger version of his character in the "Austin Powers" movies.
"You know why he can do me so well? I have three daughters. He's been cruising my house for years," Wagner told Newsday. "But he's a great boy. I love him."
Robert Wagner
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Launching French Edition
Rolling Stone
Music magazine Rolling Stone will launch a French edition next month, filled with a mix of French entertainment news and articles from the U.S. edition.
The magazine's French publisher, IXO Publishing, said it intends to remain faithful to the original spirit behind Rolling Stone's U.S. success, but with a "made in France" touch.
Founded by Jann Wenner in San Francisco in 1967, the review prints every two weeks in the United States, selling a million copies each issue. It publishes local editions
in Australia, Argentina, Spain and Germany.
The French edition, however, will be published just once a month starting Oct. 3 and include a 32-page supplement in English. The publishers hope to attract some 50,000 readers in France.
Rolling Stone
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In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
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Latest London Crime Victim
Bjork
Pregnant Icelandic singer Bjork has become the latest celebrity victim of crime in London after burglars raided her home while she was asleep, the London Evening Standard newspaper said on Monday.
Thieves broke in to the eccentric singer's flat in the upmarket Maida Vale area of the British capital on Friday night while Bjork, 36, and her American boyfriend Matthew Barney were
sleeping, stealing valuable recording equipment, the paper said.
Bjork is the latest celebrity to have become a victim of rising crime in the British capital.
In July thieves raided the home of supermodel Elle Macpherson, while pop star George Michael's mansion was targeted in February, and last year burglars
ransacked the home of former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell.
In March this year thieves tried to grab a diamond necklace from U.S. entertainer Liza Minnelli while her car was stopped at traffic lights, and on Sunday,
British actress Joan Collins, whose daughter Tara Newley was mugged last year, said she didn't feel safe in London saying the fashionable area she lived in was rife with violent thugs.
Bjork
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Snarky Gossip
Gene Kelly's Heirs
Sparks are set to fly at Thursday's celebration of Gene Kelly's masterpiece, "Singin' in the Rain" at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in L.A. That's when Kelly's widow, Barbara, will come
face-to-face with his eldest daughter Kerry Kelly Novick for the first time since the screen star's death six years ago. The ill will has brewed between Barbara and Kelly's three children since a year before
Kelly's death when, according to Kerry, "Barbara isolated my father from all his old friends, the family retained lawyers and doctors and had his will rewritten to give her everything." Kelly was only married
to Barbara for three years. Speaking for the first time about her stepmother, Kerry said: "There were various indiscretions on her part that were unacceptable to us and my father, but he was very unwell and
couldn't do anything about it." What if they run into each other? Kerry says, "I have nothing to say to her. She wasted all of her talent and intelligence and does nothing."
Gene Kelly's Heirs
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Frolicking in Fjords
Keiko the Whale
Keiko, the killer whale who became famous as the star of "Free Willy" movies, has turned up in a Norwegian fjord, six weeks after he was returned to the wild from his pen in Iceland.
Keiko is arguably the world's best-known whale, given his starring role in the three "Free Willy" films that were released in the 1990s, as well as a brief animated series shown on television.
Having spent most of his life in captivity, volunteers spent years training him for life in the wild. He was released from his pen in Iceland in July and swam nearly 870 miles to a western Norway fjord.
The orca surprised and delighted Norwegians, who petted and swam with him, and climbed on his back as he splashed in the Skaalvik Fjord, about 250 miles northwest of the capital, Oslo.
Keiko the Whale
Keiko
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MSNBC OK With Slow Start
Phil Donahue
MSNBC insists that establishing a news show is a marathon instead of a sprint. On that basis, Phil Donahue is already several blocks behind in his heralded return to television.
When Donahue's political chat show started July 15, it looked like the beginning of an intriguing competition with CNN's Connie Chung. That week, Chung's news show averaged 710,000 viewers, and Donahue had 660,000.
Yet the gap between widened steadily so that by Donahue's fifth week, Chung had double his viewership (700,000 to 328,000).
Donahue rebounded slightly in his sixth week — the last full week for which Nielsen Media Research figures were available — but on Aug. 23, the pioneering talk show host suffered an indignity few would have anticipated.
For more details, Phil Donahue
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Show to Start NFL Season
Bon Jovi
The members of Bon Jovi say their upcoming performance in Times Square will not only kick off the football season but celebrate New Yorkers' resilience after Sept. 11.
The NFL approached the group about headlining Thursday's free concert, which is being promoted as a massive tailgate party. After the performance the band will take a helicopter to Giants Stadium to
perform at halftime during the game between the New York Giants and San Francisco 49ers.
Bon Jovi
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September 18th
Corey Feldman
Corey Feldman is bringing together all his fellow former child stars for a "We Are the World"-style singalong. Feldman says the lackluster lollapolooza will feature such down-and-outters as
Emmanuel Lewis, Leif Garrett, Barry Williams, Alyssa Milano, Danny Bonaduce and Dustin "Screech" Diamond. The "Friday the 13th Part 4" star says he hopes to get "Diff'rent Strokes" alumni
Todd Bridges and Gary Coleman in on the performance, too. "It will be the funniest, coolest, weirdest thing ever," Feldman tells ncbuys.com. The spectacle will take place Sept. 18 at Tower Records in Hollywood.
Corey Feldman
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Cat Has 28 Toes
Mooch
Mooch the cat has nine lives and 28 toes.
Bob and Becky Duval say the large, yellow feline has more toes than any other cat in the world. The Duvals have submitted evidence
they hope will earn Mooch a place in the Guinness Book of Records.
"Usually, their first remark is, 'Oh, my God, look at that cat's feet - what's wrong with him?'" Becky DuVal said.
"Mooch has 28 claws," Becky DuVal said Friday. "He has 28 pads, but two of the pads are partially fused."
Mooch's big feet have an advantage in Maine.
"They're good snowshoes," Bob DuVal said.
Mooch
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