Cat yodeling!

An Engineer's Guide to Cats (via a locked post)

( I do love the rats, but I still miss having a kitty )

I'll show you what a wombat can really do!

sarah_ovenall has made a major zoological discovery: Aerial wombats!

The weirdest thing about [The Young in Heart] was the appearance of "The Flying Wombat," a car company with whom Roland Young takes a job as a salesman. An old friend of mine is mysteriously associated with the wombat. When they first mention the Flying Wombat (I think the line was "Be at the Wombat offices at 9 am tomorrow") I was like, "did he just say wombat?" And when they showed the Wombat business card I literally jumped out of my seat to hit the record button. Images of the Wombat logo/storefront only show up a couple of times, but there is a lot of hilarious dialogue like "As soon as we get around this bend, I'll show you what the Wombat can really do!" and "He'll never give up his beloved Wombat." Hilarious, that is, if you know a wombat.

No wombats were harmed in the making of this movie. (Actually, the part of the Flying Wombat was played by the 1938 Phantom Corsair, a concept car created by one of the heirs to the Heinz fortune. It even sort of looks like a wombat, except, you know, as a 1930s sports concept car.)

ETA: A Corsair fan posted clips from the film on YouTube. "If I were to say the Wombat is the last word in mechanical perfection, I would be withholding the truth. The Wombat is above mechanical perfection. The Wombat is ahead of its time--as far ahead of its time as . . . well, as Socrates of his." Thanks again to Sarah for finding these.