<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Courtesy of Metro (London, England) at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://metro.co.uk/2014/09/24/just-some-cute-cats-in-over-sized-outfits-texting-one-another-4879926/">http://metro.co.uk/2014/09/24/just-some-cute-cats-in-over-sized-outfits-texting-one-another-4879926/</a></div><div><br></div><div>-------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><h1 itemprop="headline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 1; letter-spacing: -1px; font-size: 54px; font-family: CorpidBold, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Just some cute cats in over-sized outfits texting one another</h1><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Cats! Cats in human clothes! Texting one another!</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This is Mia Mullarkey’s winning entry for the #SMWCreative contest and it raises a lot of questions about whether cats would make the best use of mobile technology, frankly.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The video, filmed on a Nokia Lumia 930, shows cats dressed up, going about their business texting, scrolling through their pics and sending videos.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Focused around one ‘cat family’, they share pretty dull chat and have a very poor grasp of spelling and grammar.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img src="cid:CE705FD8-0EED-454A-860E-BB408D82EE86" alt="image2.png" id="CE705FD8-0EED-454A-860E-BB408D82EE86"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There’s at the office cat (mum, dad, who knows in that outfit?) – ‘Hi baby. Miss you. Howz the kittens?’</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Home with the kittens cat – ‘Hi hun. Kids are watching tv. Miss u 2. Purrrrr.’</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img src="cid:8DC03A0C-1F9E-481B-AB64-EE4DD6A6A867" alt="image1.png" id="8DC03A0C-1F9E-481B-AB64-EE4DD6A6A867"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And cheeky kitten – ‘Hi mom!! This is Leopold!!! Were watching catman returns! Dinner woz yum!!!!’</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Who uses this many exclamation marks in a text? And when has any child, furry or not, got that excited about their dinner?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Also, if the adults are dressed, why are all the kids naked?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Why are cats calling their kittens kids?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Catman Returns, though, I think we’d all like to see that.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Anyway, office worker cat goes on to ask cheeky kitten – ‘Hi Leo, how was school?’</span></p><figure class="alignnone img-container" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline-block; width: inherit; max-width: 100%; min-height: 50px; height: inherit; position: relative; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img width="632" height="342" data-rsz="no" src="http://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/catstext4.png" alt="catstext4" class="img-align-none wp-image-4880100 size-full" data-rewritten="true" scale="0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%; height: inherit; display: block;"><figcaption style="text-align: start; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 10px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Leopold, what’s with all the !!!!s? (Picture: YouTube)</figcaption></figure><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Here comes the pun – ‘Bad!!! Mr Catwright always gives us 2 much homework!!! :((‘</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Obviously their homework is mouse catching.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Then it’s all finished off with ‘a video that dad made of us! :-P’</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It’s a wonder it’s not a phone adv… oh.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ms Mullarkey, of Dublin, came up with Nokia 930 Cat Video after being invited to submit a piece capturing the theme of a shared experience.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Her prize includes a trip to Los Angeles as part of Social Media Week, which is taking place now.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The event is being marked in nine countries and Microsoft is a major sponsor.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Judge Stephen Alvarez said: ‘I hate to have a cat video be the winner, but I think the film maker is poking fun of (sic) the popularity of cat videos on the internet. Great production and story telling! Hilarious.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Video</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://youtu.be/myXJDuv_gAE">http://youtu.be/myXJDuv_gAE</a></span></p></div><div><br></div><div>-------------------------------------<br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>