In the summer of 1993, Dick Zimmerman, a 44-year-old retired broadcasting executive from Larkspur, California, happened to see the episode in which Butt-head joked, “ Hey, Beavis, let ’ s go over to Stewart ’ s house and light firecracker in his cat ’ s butt .” Five days later, a cat was found killed by a firecracker in nearby Santa Cruz.

There are several versions of the traditional story, which tells how Dick, a boy from a poor Gloucestershire family, sets out for London to make his fortune, accompanied by, or later acquiring, his cat.

Dick, a boy from a poor family in Gloucestershire, walks to London to make his fortune, accompanied by his cat.

As Dick and cat are making for home, discouraged, by way of Highgate Hill, they hear the Bow Bells from distant London ; Dick believes they are sending him a message to " turn again "-and that he will become Lord Mayor of London.

* The children's novel Sophie's Tom by Dick King-Smith features a black cat, who the protagonist names Tom early on in the book.

They share no relation to MGM's more successful Tom and Jerry, a cat and mouse, and the older series has been renamed " Van Beuren's Tom and Jerry " and " Dick and Larry " in various future incarnations.

The cat stood for Dick Whittington's cat, a symbol of London.

If the second known version ( 1611, in Melismata, also reprinted in Chappell ) were the oldest, this might be possible — there are seeming political references to " Gib, our cat " and " Dick, our Drake.

* Dom DeLuise as Tiger, a very large, cowardly, long-haired orange cat who also happens to be vegetarian.

* Tiger ( voiced by Dom DeLuise ): The only cat friend of the Jewish-Russian mouse family.

Until Series 5 of ' Da Bungalow ', each week a short five minute feature would be shown of the travels of ' next door's cat ', who would visit the Bungalow to recount the tales of his adventures.

The wave function means that, once the cat is observed, there is a 50 % chance it will be dead, and 50 % chance it will be alive.

In tone and imagery the storyline for this series of strips is very similar to the animation segment for Valse Triste from Allegro non troppo, which depicts a ghostly cat roaming around the ruins of the home it once inhabited.

All the superconducting electrons in the SQUID flow both ways around the loop at once when they are in the Schrödinger ’ s cat state.

Cells showing linear spatial summation are termed X cells ( also called parvocellular, P, or midget ganglion cells ), and those showing non-linear summation are Y cells ( also called magnocellular, M, or parasol retinal ganglion cells ), although the correspondence between X and Y cells ( in the cat retina ) and P and M cells ( in the primate retina ) is not as simple as it once seemed.

For example, perhaps in the world where the cat survived Wigner's friend may telephone at once with the good news.

All the superconducting electrons in the SQUID flow both ways around the loop at once when they are in the Schrödinger ’ s cat state.

Clampett did two more shorts with the " naked genius ", as a Jimmy Durante-ish cat once called him in A Gruesome Twosome.

He once again creates simulacra on a holodeck, this time of the Voyager crew, but based on facts available to him about their true personalities ( for the most part ; because he named his cat Neelix, he makes the holodeck Neelix purr ).

One myth relates that a lioness, fiery and wrathful, was once cooled down by the water of the lake, transformed into a gentle cat and settled in the temple.

Mammoths once grazed in the Thurrock area and archaeologists recently unearthed the remains of a jungle cat.

Joined by Myau, a talking cat, Odin, once a member of Nero's rebellion, and the Esper magician Noah ( Lutz in the Japanese version and further English games ), Alis embarks on an adventure spanning all three planets.

She is seen once in the series when sent to Earth on a mission and takes on the form of a cat.

Sylvester mistakes Hippety Hopper once again for a giant mouse, and the baby kangaroo promptly beats the cat soundly.

Liebling once described the " and Sun " portion of the combined publication's masthead as resembling the tail feathers of a canary on the chin of a cat.

He is freed by a curious cat and once more wins back the favour of his king.

The flat-headed cat is distinguished at once by the extreme depression of the skull, which extends along the nose to the extremity of the muzzle, the sides of which are laterally distended.

ChuChu Rocket! s multiplayer mode revolves around up to four players placing arrows on the level at once, trying to direct mice into their own rockets and cats into other players ' rockets ( any cat that reaches a rocket removes a percentage of the mice within ).

He once bought an alley cat from a hobo, cleaned the animal up and entered it in a prestigious cat show as " Nicodemus, by Broomstick out of Dustpan by Sweeper, the last of the exotic Brindle breed ".

" Tish was once bumped as parade marshal for Jan's cat who could play fetch.

Tobias then tells the story of a cat that he once had that he had put to sleep because the cat stopped liking him.

" When Roberta looks again, Isis is once again a cat.

The buildings once loaded were the last sleigh on the cat trains which were usually 4-5 sleighs long.

* Paula Abdul was inspired by the scene of Kelly dancing with Jerry to create the video for her song " Opposites Attract ", where she dances with an animated cat.

Phillips suggested changes to the lyrics (" Go, cat, go ") and the band changed the end of the song to a " boogie vamp ". On Ozark Jubilee Presley left Sun for a larger opportunity with RCA in November, and on December 19, 1955, Phillips, who had begun recording Perkins in late 1954, told Perkins, " Carl Perkins, you're my rockabilly cat now.

FACT was reserved for full-length albums, while FAC was used for both single song releases, and many other Factory " productions ", including: posters ( FAC 1 advertised a club night ), The Haçienda ( FAC 51 ), a hairdressing salon ( FAC 98 ), a broadcast of Channel 4's The Tube ( FAC 104 ), customised packing tape ( FAC 136 ), a bucket on a restored watermill ( FAC 148 ), the Haçienda cat ( FAC 191 ), a bet between Wilson and Gretton ( FAC 253 ), a lawsuit filed against Factory Records by Martin Hannett ( FAC 61 ), and a radio advertisement ( FAC 294 ).

For the first time since 1964 a single act did not perform each of the nominated songs with rather each song being performed by a different cat.

In the 1947 film Hi De Ho, Calloway includes the following lines in his song " Minnie the Moocher ": " Woe there ain't no more Smokey Joe / She's fluffed off his hi-de-ho / She's a solid jitterbug / And she starts to cut a rug / Oh Minnie's a hep cat now.

At the bar, when Nanny G sings a song, Lilith interprets her performances as directly meant for Frasier and then gets into a cat fight with her.

According to Andy Thomas, Airington had a few drinks before the recording session for the song started, and as a result, accidentally repeated some of the lyrics ( i. e., " this cat gets down down with a love hang over ").

* In the 2003 film adaptation of Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat, a version of this song recorded by the band Smash Mouth, with a horn interlude replacing the third verse, was used in the sequence of the cat and the two things cleaning up the wreckage of the house.

The song " Crash on the Barrelhead " is rumored to be targeted at alt-country rival, Ryan Adams, while " Murder ..." was inspired by a cat owned by singer Miller's roommate in Los Angeles.

In 2007, the chain used a character called Rap Cat, a stuffed animal cat who performs a rap song about the chain.

In Garfield: The Movie, the titular cat sings this song when he is locked in a cage.

In Italian, the only major name change was " Megu " to " Bia " ( although " Non " became " Noa "), and Megu's family's name was changed from " Kanzaki " to " Giapo " ( from " Giappone ," the Italian spelling of " Japan "), " Chou-San "/" Cho-San " changed just only a bit and became " Ciosa " or " Ciosah ", " Kurou " (" Crow ") became " Cra Cra " from the Italian onomatopoeia of the song of the crows, " Furu Furu " cat was changed ( as it was French ) with the correct spelling of " Fru Fru " (" Frou Frou ").

* Michael Jackson's version of the song Ben, which was played during the ending credits of the original sequel, Ben, is also played during one of the scenes in the 2003 film when the rats attack a cat.

Despite the theme song, Hong Kong Phooey is a classic screw-up, and often fails to save the city only to be saved by his sidekick pet, a striped cat named Spot.

Most recently, in September 2010, Matthew Wilkening of AOL Radio ranked the song at number 20 on the list of the 100 Worst Songs Ever, calling it " he sonic equivalent of those ' hang in there ' posters with the cat on a tree limb, except much screechier.

The song is about Thomas O ' Malley, the rascal alley cat from the Walt Disney movie The Aristocats.

Willie Dixon's song " Hoochie Coochie Man " mentions a " black cat bone " along with his mojo and his John the Conqueror: all are artifacts in hoodoo magic.

This, however, only excites the cat (" Wine women an ' song?

Griddlebone is a cat character who appears in T. S. Eliot's collection of poems Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and also the musical Cats during the song of ' Growltigers Last Stand.