The Boxing Cats, 1894

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1. Stag Party Palin says:

   June 18, 2012 at 9:58 pm

   Am I the only one who was waiting for the cats to turn on their trainer?

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   • Erik Loomis says:

     June 18, 2012 at 10:08 pm

     Probably didn’t happen only because the film was so short.

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2. Vance Maverick says:

   June 18, 2012 at 10:43 pm

   That black background (like Charlie Rose’s, though with a plausible technical explanation) conceals a multitude of sins.

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   • Erik Loomis says:

     June 18, 2012 at 11:06 pm

     Are you saying Charlie Rose’s 19th century production values are there for a reason?

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3. gocart mozart says:

   June 18, 2012 at 11:12 pm

   Ahem sir.
   http://gocart-mozart.blogspot.com/2011/07/thomas-edison-boxing-cats-boxing-babes.html

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   • Erik Loomis says:

     June 18, 2012 at 11:28 pm

     I had not seen the boxing women clip before. I’ll have to make a note to include that in a post soon.

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     • M. Bouffant says:

       June 18, 2012 at 11:55 pm

       Thought you might have some bear-baiting footage waiting to go.

       The sins VM refers to probably include wires to the cat harnesses.

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       • Erik Loomis says:

         June 19, 2012 at 12:27 am

         Bear-baiting, eh? Have to see what I can do.

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         • IM says:

           June 19, 2012 at 5:29 am

           I thought you already did it with Greenwald.

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           • Jameson Quinn says:

             June 19, 2012 at 9:57 am

             True, bears love squash.

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   • Erik Loomis says:

     June 18, 2012 at 11:29 pm

     “With the obsolescence of the phonograph and the incandescent light bulb, perhaps Edison’s most long-lived contribution to society may be his invention of the cute cat video. Can’t you just picture him with Dickson and his assistant William Heis smoking cigars and drinking bourbon after a hard day’s work in the lab, when Edison pipes up and says “Gentlemen, we have just invented the kinetiscope . What shall we do with it? Dickson may have answered “How about we film cute cats boxing?” . . .”

     Ha ha ha.

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     • Bill Murray says:

       June 19, 2012 at 9:55 am

       and Edison again takes credit for others good work

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     • gocart mozart says:

       June 19, 2012 at 11:38 am

       Thanks Erick

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       • gocart mozart says:

         June 19, 2012 at 11:38 am

         Uhm, I mean Erik.

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4. Manju says:

   June 19, 2012 at 4:16 am

   I haven’t been this disturbed since Strom Thurmond grabbed Sally Quinn’s ass. And Sally liked it. Not to mention her mother. Makes Woody Allen seem normal.

   But I digress. What the hell are you lefties doing to my favorite sport?! Here, take this:

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcb1MgGrlWA

   This is what Boxing is all about.

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5. IM says:

   June 19, 2012 at 5:10 am

   Why is the past a strange place? We live in the age of LOLcats after all.

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   • Snarki, child of Loki says:

     June 19, 2012 at 7:08 am

     We live in the age of LOLcats after all

     …and always have, apparently. Next up, new translation yields LOLcat hieroglyphics.

     “Oh hai. Wuz maus in sarcophagus, but I eated it”

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     • IM says:

       June 19, 2012 at 8:33 am

       There are some paintings from Pompeji that very much looks like a bikini. And proto-graffiti found there, too.

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   • Erik Loomis says:

     June 19, 2012 at 8:00 am

     The present is also a strange place.

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6. Aaron Baker says:

   June 19, 2012 at 9:13 am

   Disillusioning. I thought cats were much too smart for boxing.

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   • Erik Loomis says:

     June 19, 2012 at 10:03 am

     You don’t even want to see what is coming tonight then.

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7. sleepyirv says:

   June 19, 2012 at 9:18 am

   This is a nice reminder how much drinking happen in the 19th Century.

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8. njorl says:

   June 19, 2012 at 12:09 pm

   The incredible thing about it was that 2 of the 3 judges had the cat on the right winning by at least six rounds on their score cards.

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   • gocart mozart says:

     June 19, 2012 at 4:09 pm

     Back in the day, professional cat fights were all mob controlled. The worse part was that often the cats were srewed out of their promised purse.

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