Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat, the Cat of the Railway Train
There's a whisper down the line at eleven thirty-nine
When the Night Mail's ready to depart
Saying, "Skimble, where is Skimble?
Has he gone to hunt the thimble?
We must find him or the train can't start"

All the guards and all the porters
And the station master's daughters
Would be searching high and low
Saying "Skimble where is Skimble for unless he's very nimble
Then the night mail just can't go."

At eleven forty-two with the signal overdue
And the passengers all frantic to a man
That's when I would appear and I'd saunter to the rear
I'd been busy in the luggage van!

Then he gave one flash of his glass-green eyes
And the signal went "All Clear!"
They'd be off at last to the northern part of the Northern Hemisphere!

Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat
The Cat of the Railway Train
You might say that by and large it was me who was in charge
Of the Sleeping Car Express
From the driver and the guards to the bagmen playing cards
I would supervise them all more or less

Down the corridor he paces and examines all the faces
Of the travellers in the first and the third
He established control by a regular patrol
And he'd know at once if anything occurred

He would watch you without winking and he saw what you were thinking
And it's certain that he didn't approve
Of hilarity and riot so that folk were very quiet
When Skimble was about and on the move

You could play no pranks with Skimbleshanks!
He's a cat that couldn't be ignored
So nothing went wrong on the Northern Mail
When Skimbleshanks was aboard

It was very pleasant when they'd found their little den
With their name written up on the door
And the berth was very neat with a newly folded sheet
And not a speck of dust upon the floor

There was every sort of light
You could make it dark or bright
And a button you could turn to make a breeze
And a funny little basin you're supposed to wash your face in
And a crank to shut the window should you sneeze

Then the guard looked in politely and would ask you very brightly,
"Do you like your morning tea weak or strong?"
But I was just behind him and was ready to remind him
For Skimble won't let anything go wrong

When they crept into their cosy berth and pulled up the counterpane
They all could reflect that it was very nice
To know that they wouldn't be bothered by mice
They can leave all that to the Railway Cat
The Cat of the Railway Train

Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat
The Cat of the Railway Train
In the watches of the night I was always fresh and bright
Every now and then I'd have a cup of tea
With perhaps a drop of scotch while I was keeping on the watch
Only stopping here and there to catch a flea

They were fast asleep at Crewe and so they never knew
That I was walking up and down the station
They were sleeping all the while I was busy at Carlisle
Where I met the station master with elation

They might see me at Dumfries if I summoned the police
If there was anything they ought to know about

When they got to Gallowgate there they did not have to wait
For Skimbleshanks would help them to get out!

And he gives a wave of his long brown tail
Which says "I'll see you again!
You'll meet without fail on the Midnight Mail
The Cat of the Railway Train!"

A little pussy will fix any problem.

So I finally have my ten million dollar world saving google idea.
Animals wearing clothes.

wake up and smell the cat food!
In your bank account...

d23: wake up and smell the cat food!
In your bank account...

Don't don't don't let's start (the train).

Only in Japan, and perhaps canada will you ever find a cat running a business.

A hardworking, honest cat. Much better than mine who steals coins and hides them under the couch along with all the pens and milk jug rings.

I can haz grat trane robury?

FunkOut: A hardworking, honest cat. Much better than mine who steals coins and hides them under the couch along with all the pens and milk jug rings.

I read that as all the penis rings for some reason.

They made her a hat!

How adorable is that?

Japanese train cat!

Well, I needed some cheering up. This article did it. That's submitter.

LadyHawke - Came for Skimbleshanks, left happy!

/will have that melody in my head for the next three weeks, thx

Subby, don't you mean "single-pawedly"?

/approves

Calico cats are lucky

It's a factoid!

Maybe they more money will come in if a japan actress in the AV star take it as there last name, i have seen it before.

Only in Japan can such a business strategy prevail. Could you picture a bunch of government transit employees in Washington D.C. spending their day honoring a cat as part of their work routine? They'd all be like, "say wut? Oh hellz no!"

Catunday? Doesn't have the same flow.

LadyHawke

How much time did it take you to write that?

Trik: Calico cats are lucky

It's a factoid!

And yet, they referred to her as a tortoiseshell. She's not dammit, she's got lots of white. A CALICO!

//Yeah, I'm a cat nazi. Make something of it.

WTF is wrong with you people? All these posts and not ONE decent set of tits to look at!!!

re: WTF is wrong with you people? All these posts and not ONE decent set of tits to look at!!!

homo cat thread. look elsewheres.

/Stationmastering is hard work

MBA Whore: LadyHawke

How much time did it take you to write that?

I think it's from T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.

MBA Whore: LadyHawke

How much time did it take you to write that?

Step 1: Google "Skimbleshanks lyrics"
Step 2: Click top link
Step 3: Copy and Paste

Total Time: Maybe 1 minute

It is part of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, which was bastardized into the musical Cats.
Lots of other nifty cats in the book!

What, that's like $17 right? Big deal.

Macavity's not there!

Came here for Cash Cat. Left disappointed.

Someone praytell, what is a "Skimbleshanks"?

/ trying GIS now. . .

How are you gentlemen

Came for the xkcd 'Human Proximity to cat' comic, left satisfied.

LadyHawke: Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat, the Cat of the Railway Train

-T.S. Eliot, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)

/T. Eliot nixes sex in toilet
//cool poem

Tikkit plz

/If someone would slap that together, I'd be much obliged

isn't 1.1 billion yen like... $42.50 or something?

Great picture, jamspoon.

how do they get the cat to keep the hat on ?

despite Dr Seuss, cats hat hats.

TheHopeDiamond: They made her a hat!

How adorable is that?

Japanese train cat!

Very nice.

FTA: as much as 1.1 billion yen (10.44 million dollars) in 2007 alone

Ten...meeelion dollars?


Has a new game plan.

could never be done in America. Some punk would have tortured that stray.

texastag: She can punch my ticket!

/Pull a train
//Etc.




... go on...

MBA Whore: Someone praytell, what is a "Skimbleshanks"?

/ trying GIS now. . .

It's a Jellicle Cat.

/What's a Jellicle Cat?
//What's a Jellicle Cat?!?

LadyHawke:
MBA Whore: LadyHawke

How much time did it take you to write that?

Step 1: Google "Skimbleshanks lyrics"
Step 2: Click top link
Step 3: Copy and Paste

Total Time: Maybe 1 minute

To be fair, not everyone reads books.

Not everybody watches musicals, either, I guess. The lyrics were from the Andrew Lloyd Webber adaptation (linked to in my post).

You may have heard of the show...it is called...

"Cats".

So that's like $7.50 in real money?

And just for the hell of it, for those of you new to Cats, I'd like to present Rum Tum Tugger

Part Mick Jagger, part Frank N Furter...