In Highschool, for some strange reason, I literally WORSHIPPED Bill The Cat. For those of you not up all of your Bill The Cat trivia, here is just a little bit of info. Bill The Cat is a cartoon cat that can found in Berkeley Breathed's comic strip "Bloom County" back in the 80's and he STILL lives today in the Sunday Comic "Opus". I can go on and on about the actual history of this rather unique character and the political satire that the comic strip drooled dailily (is that a word???) upon its readers, but you can find that info elsewhere (and I am just tooooo damn tired to write out a 103 page report for you).

THESE are the reasons that I began my feverish-Davidianesque deification of this rather crazy-eyed fictional felis domesticus:

1. He was a blatant rip-off of Jim Davis' "Garfield" (points for mocking parody).
2. His favorite and ONLY spoken words consisted of "ACK" and the occasional "TTTTHHHHBBBBPPPTTT" (if only I could teach my wife this).
3. He was the lead singer of BOTH the Metal band Deathtongue, and later, Billy and The Boingers.
4. He ran for President in both 1984 and 1988.
5. He had swapped brains with Donald Trump for a time (before the big hub-bub of the Apprentice, although watching the show, I believe Donald may STILL have Bill's brain).
6. He joined the Hari Krisha (or Hairy Fishnuts as Opus would say).
7. He was drunk and/or stoned most of the time (long before Mel Gibson made it fashionable).
8. He died almost more times than Kenny (South Park) or Nikki Sixx.
9. He was definitely the Ladies' Cat, if ya know what I mean (including a tryst with Paris Hilton, he may be the giggling idiot in that video... er... never mind).
10. He wasn't afraid to hack a furball on anyone, including his own feet.