But her purr box goes to 11

Published 12:01 am Monday, May 9, 2011

Purr box set to 11

You should hear her cough up a hairball: Guinness World Records has confirmed that a gray-and-white tabby cat in London named Smokey has the world’s loudest purr at 67.7 decibels. For comparison, a lawn mower reaches 90 decibels.

But how Smokey got her purr is less than admirable. Other neighborhood cats claim Smokey has “smoker’s purr” from a two-pack-day catnip habit.

What’s a poke? The Sno-Isle library in Arlington has scheduled a workshop for parents, “Facebook for Parents: Privacy and Your Kids,” on May 18, offering tips on helping your kids make smart choices about online privacy and also showing adults how to set up a Facebook account.

Lesson No. 1: Don’t leave your page open and walk away so your kids can leave embarrassing posts on your profile page about your undying devotion to Justin Bieber or how awesome that “Friday” song is.

Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1961, FCC Chairman Newton Minow described television as a “vast wasteland” of “game shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, sadism, murder … gangsters, more violence and cartoons.”

To this day no one is certain how Minow got his hands on an advance screening tape of Donald Trump’s “Celebrity Apprentice.”

–Jon Bauer, Herald staff