Gee it's amazing how fast conversation can move on (well, not really surprising if you can only join in once a day, I suppose)

But I wanted to thank Carly and everybody else for their cat songs and parodies (also thank Elmer for his kind words on mine)--and agree with Ebbie that cats do seem to know exactly where your focus of attention is. And if it's on a newspaper or book--well, there's no excuse for that. The cat knows your attention should be always on him or her--and will plant itself on your newspaper or book--thus attaining the goal. It works every time--you'll have to do something about the cat--and the chances are you'll pet it or feed it.

Totally brilliant.