Colcam: Humphrey The Cat.

Monday, March 20, 2006

Humphrey The Cat.

Humphrey the Downing Street cat, has died, aged around 18.

He was a serial killer who attracted fan mail, knew Margaret Thatcher and survived the experience, only to be thrown out by Cherie Blair.

The cat played a crucial role in ridding Whitehall of vermin. In a file released by the Cabinet Office last July, a civil servant, answering whether Humphrey had ever given birth, replied: “No, he has been positively vetted.” The file added: “He is a workaholic who spends nearly all his time at the office, has no criminal record, does not socialise a great deal or go to many parties and has not been involved in any sex or drug scandals that we know of.”

And in the same report, he added: “He has caught numerous mice and the odd rat. By a perhaps unfair comparison, Rentokil have been operating for years and have never caught anything.”

Humphrey also caught the wrath of Cherie Blair. Can cats come back and haunt?

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# posted by Colcam : 12:31 PM

Comments:

Packet, the mirror image of Humphrey, isn't quite so accomplished, but she does come when called and will sometimes purr.

# posted by

Kristen : 7:51 PM

LoL. Thanks Sarkasmo. A great piccie of Packet, and they do look suspiciously similar.

Packet, I hope, is not a result of the "special relationship" between the US and UK.

Was Humphrey "shoulder to shoulder" with Packet's Mum?

International relations between Britain and America reached an all-time high when Humphr........ ;) Y'know :o

# posted by

colcam : 9:40 AM

Packet is the spitting image of her daddy, but we know who he is and where he's been. I think Ohio is as far east as he's gotten so far.

# posted by

Kristen : 2:17 AM