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Sorry about the laundry in the background. Meanwhile, it's not even 8 a.m. and it's too hot already to stay outside. Nice sunny day means at least the laundry will dry quickly?!
Are you wearing your sunblock, cat mothers and fathers? I hope you are—the UV index on these adorable cat memes is off the charts, and the only thing that'll save you is chuckling as hard as you can at each and every one of these feline funnies!
My favurite time of the day is when I get to take a break and look at some wholesome animal content. Granted, I do this for work, but dedicated animal lovers know that around-the-clock animal funnies are necessary to get through the day. If I can't be with my cat, Cooper, in the coziness of my own bed, then this will have to do!
In cat world, it really is sunshine and rainbows most of the time. You'd feel the same way if you didn't pay rent, for your own food, and got belly rubs and chin scratches whenever you wanted. Cats are kings in their respective households, and cat lovers are happy to be their feline's little court jesters. After all, we wouldn't want anyone else being the main purrvider for our fuzzy freaks! Scroll below to shine some light on your feline funny bone today!
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Or maybe "adverbial noun"? Or "adverbial verb"? Anyhow, "Long-closed Calif. mountain route surprise reopens after years", SFGate 9/2/2025:
A long-shuttered stretch of highway that cuts straight through Angeles National Forest above Los Angeles has finally reopened.
A roughly 10-mile stretch of Angeles Crest Highway, which runs roughly east-west through the national forest for over 60 miles from the wealthy suburb of La Cañada Flintridge to the small mountain town of Wrightwood, reopened with little notice on Friday after being closed for several years. Before the surprise return on Friday, the portion of the two-lane highway had been closed since the winter of 2022-2023, when “relentless storms” collapsed roadways, caused rockslides and damaged retaining walls, according to Caltrans.
The Wiktionary entry for surprise offers Noun, Verb, and Interjection sub-entries, but no Adjective or Adverb examples. It's normal for nouns to be used as nominal modifiers, but verbal modification by a noun is much rarer.
Comment from C.B., who emailed the quote and link:
I was surprised to see the following on the SFGate website, a news website run by the San Francisco Chronicle (although separate staff from the newspaper), specifically the phrase "surprise reopens." I realize it's headlinese, but still…
I don't have time this morning to find the relevant sections the Cambridge Grammar or other sources, assuming that such sections exist. And no analogous examples come to mind, though readers will no doubt oblige.
The obligatory screen shot:
Update — CuConnacht in the comments suggests that "It reads to me as a noun used as an adjective used as an adverb. That is, I think that "surprise reopening" is somewhere in the background." That makes sense — but the pattern is not a general one, so that a "surprise discovery of X by Y" would probably not be headlined as "Y surprise discovers X". And someone's surprise appearance would probably not be described by saying that they "surprise appeared".
Good meowrning, fellow feline fanatic fans. At least we're pretty sure it's morning already. The sun is out, our cats are looking out the window to hunt bird with their eyes and ekekek at them, so yeah - we're pretty sure the morning is already here. We wouldn't know, because our cats woke us up when it was still dark. They meowed and pawed at us like something Very Impawrtant™ is happening, we didn't even had the chance tolook at the clock and see what time it was. Apparently, they needed us, right there and then, to lift them up for a bug that made its night's rest on the kitchen ceiling. And won't let us go back to sleep.
What can we say, cats will be cats, fur sure. They'll meow and yowl at blank walls (until the ghosts are gone), they'll climb up to all the places they shouldn't be (and then ask to be gently helped down), and they'll demand treats even if they've already had eleventy (only this morning). But it doesn't matter - cats will always be our loveble, cute, and delightful little fluffballs. We love our cats so much, and no amount of chaos will change that.
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You know those moments… when you are chilling with your cats, and everything seems completely fine, but out of nowhere, your cat will just jump for no reason? Yeah, we love those moments. They are just kind of funny to us. It can happen anytime and for any reason. You never expect it. You can never see it coming. But every single time that it happens, every time your cat gets spooked by literally nothing, you laugh about it afterward. Just because it's funny.
Cats are so easily startled, and they get startled by the silliest things. In fact, there is a whole section of the internet that talks about the silly things that spooked their cats today every single day. Those things range all the way from someone sneezing to humans walking next to a window to… just nothing. And each and every post of that kind makes us smile and reminds us of just how much we love our own little scaredy cats at home.
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In an era when the thing that we see most often on the internet is drama and insanity, wholesome stories - genuinely wholesome ones - are rare. Roommates and pets seem to always cause drama. Roommates lock cats in their rooms even though the cats are not theirs. Roommates adopt cats just to post pictures of the cat on social media, without actually taking care of them properly. Roommates demand that you get rid of your cats for no good reason. It happens all the time. It's like we cannot avoid the drama no matter how much we try.
And then, we come across this story. And we think to ourselves: "here we go again". Except not. This story, wherever you think it's going to go, we promise you that it doesn't go that way. It's one of the most wholesome stories about cats and roommates that we have seen in a long, long time, and it made us smile so genuinely that we simply had to share it with all of you guys as well.
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