Because cats are evil.
I, obviously, had the original in mind when I created my username before Jim Carrey tainted it.
And, btw, that’s not Boris Karloff. Everyone thinks it is because it sounds like him, but it’s another dude. Name escapes me at the moment.
Edited to correct. The narrator is Boris Karloff. The song, though, (which I had always erroneously attributed to Karloff) is Thurl Ravenscroft
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TheGrinch:
Because cats are evil.
The Icelandic people say hello… but it is evil… if you don’t get a new Christmas sweater every year…
Jólakötturinn (the Yule Cat), is a mythical, giant Icelandic creature that eats anyone not receiving new clothes for Christmas. A massive, glowing-eyed, black feline from folklore, it serves as a warning against laziness and is celebrated in Iceland with a 5-meter LED statue.
The Yule cat (Icelandic: Jólakötturinn, .mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈjouːlaˌkʰœhtʏrɪn], also called Jólaköttur) is a huge and vicious cat from Icelandic folklore that is said to lurk in the snowy countryside during the Yule season and eat people who do not receive new clothing. In other versions of th
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dave92
December 26, 2025, 11:51pm
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They’re so cute until you somehow “pet them wrong” and then you better watch out
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haney
December 27, 2025, 12:20am
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TheGrinch:
Thurl Ravenscroft
Who we know as Tony the Tiger ( who, to be fair, was a cat)
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BDragon:
Yep, that look says “I bet you don’t know where I just peed”
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