pixrox1 Review of The Cat That Hated People

The Cat That Hated People (1948)

This picture informs viewers that if you sharpen . . .

[6/10 · 5 August 2022]

. . . a cat's tail with a pencil sharpener, you get a sharp pencil--albeit still attached to the back end of the feline. This experience led THE CAT THAT HATED PEOPLE to change his tune quickly. I know someone who goes to Major League Baseball games with TWO small plastic and metal Dollar Tree (now they're $1.25 for a package of twelve, thanks to inflation) gizmos to hone the points of lead pencils. Though they give him a free scorecard and golf-type score pencil at the ball park, he brings at least a half dozen of these writing instruments from previous games, along with a minimum of two regular pencils bearing erasers. He's constantly refining his points during each game, always having three or four "good" ones available. Occasionally he breaks a cheap plastic sharpener due to the tension of scoring not only every play, but also every pitch, the between-innings goings on, three in-game time "check-points," the temperature, the attendance, the umpires, out-of-town scores and a host of other trivia. If they had cats to sharpen at the game, he'd probably do that, too.