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We are forgetting something important: What song was Fatso "playing"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.57.224.185 ( talk) 22:12, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
Charlie wrote the song himself. The shirt was just something he had, he does not have a son.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought 4chan was the originator of this meme? If not why is there no citation or reference to the originator? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.176.208.121 ( talk) 19:39, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
Must we use the term "meme?" It somehow doesn't feel that encyclopedic to throw around hip words that will undoubtedly be forgotten next month. SergioGeorgini ( talk) 13:57, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
It is funny that someone accused the word and concept of a meme of itself being a meme. Ninahexan ( talk) 08:03, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
Should it perhaps be noted somewhere that this has also shown up on the G4 network's "Attack of the Show"? They had a small segment which showed art / a tiny mechanism (an orange robotic cat hitting notes on a fake keyboard, while playing the keyboard cat song) that had been created regarding this meme. 97.90.63.183 ( talk) 06:43, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
It consists of footage from 1984 of "Fatso", a cat (now deceased)...
No? Gee, and here I was thinking the cat was 26 years old and still going strong. Thank you, Captain Obvious. Tualha ( Talk) 00:28, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
Some cats have lived to be older than 26. [ [1]] Lily20 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 06:36, 28 February 2010 (UTC).
I tried to remove that bit of silliness and I was reverted. If we don't know when the cat died, the information is completely useless. It's like talking about some 19th century person and saying that they are "now deceased". Well, of course they are—that's biology for you. If we found out the cat died in a certain year, or even a certain decade, then sure, add that. But it's useless to just say the cat died. If you disagree, ask yourself: at what point would the information become useless? In 40 years? 100 years? If a cat was alive in 1984, then the automatic assumption is that the cat is dead in 2010. If not, then you'd expect to see something like: "Fatso is noted as an exceptionally long lived cat, as he is still alive as of 2010." Everyking ( talk) 04:20, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Fatso appeared on the premiere episode of Mad.-- DrWho42 ( talk) 04:55, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
What about the currently running Keyboard Cat commercial for Wonderful Pistachios? Should it be in the broadcast section? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.201.144.231 ( talk) 04:48, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
Does anyone have any idea what the second paragraph in the lede means? DES ( talk) 20:33, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
According to this interview that Charlie Schmidt did with lovemeow.com - http://lovemeow.com/2009/09/exclusive-interview-on-fatso-the-keyboard-cat-with-charlie-schmidt/ - Fatso was about a year old when the video was originally made. The source from The Guardian says Fatso died in 1987 and from the video Fatso looks much older than three human years. I wanted to use it as a source but there's something in the back of my mind about the interview that is stopping me... NKTP ( talk) 14:28, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
At the moment, the section " Broadcast appearances" is rendered as a single long paragraph. Because almost none of the sentences are related to each other, this format strikes me as excessively hard to read. I think the section would probably be easier to follow if refactored into a bulleted list, preferably in chronological order, with one bullet entry for each appearance. — Jaydiem ( talk) 21:45, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
Are those his real arms or a prop? Robinrobin ( talk) 06:30, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
Please swing by and help improve this new article! :D-- Coin945 ( talk) 03:30, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
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Here's a source that explains the meme and Bento, the modern incarnation: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/20/bento-keyboard-cat-youtube-dies EvergreenFir (talk) 14:57, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
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We are forgetting something important: What song was Fatso "playing"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.57.224.185 ( talk) 22:12, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
Charlie wrote the song himself. The shirt was just something he had, he does not have a son.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought 4chan was the originator of this meme? If not why is there no citation or reference to the originator? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.176.208.121 ( talk) 19:39, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
Must we use the term "meme?" It somehow doesn't feel that encyclopedic to throw around hip words that will undoubtedly be forgotten next month. SergioGeorgini ( talk) 13:57, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
It is funny that someone accused the word and concept of a meme of itself being a meme. Ninahexan ( talk) 08:03, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
Should it perhaps be noted somewhere that this has also shown up on the G4 network's "Attack of the Show"? They had a small segment which showed art / a tiny mechanism (an orange robotic cat hitting notes on a fake keyboard, while playing the keyboard cat song) that had been created regarding this meme. 97.90.63.183 ( talk) 06:43, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
It consists of footage from 1984 of "Fatso", a cat (now deceased)...
No? Gee, and here I was thinking the cat was 26 years old and still going strong. Thank you, Captain Obvious. Tualha ( Talk) 00:28, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
Some cats have lived to be older than 26. [ [1]] Lily20 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 06:36, 28 February 2010 (UTC).
I tried to remove that bit of silliness and I was reverted. If we don't know when the cat died, the information is completely useless. It's like talking about some 19th century person and saying that they are "now deceased". Well, of course they are—that's biology for you. If we found out the cat died in a certain year, or even a certain decade, then sure, add that. But it's useless to just say the cat died. If you disagree, ask yourself: at what point would the information become useless? In 40 years? 100 years? If a cat was alive in 1984, then the automatic assumption is that the cat is dead in 2010. If not, then you'd expect to see something like: "Fatso is noted as an exceptionally long lived cat, as he is still alive as of 2010." Everyking ( talk) 04:20, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Fatso appeared on the premiere episode of Mad.-- DrWho42 ( talk) 04:55, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
What about the currently running Keyboard Cat commercial for Wonderful Pistachios? Should it be in the broadcast section? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.201.144.231 ( talk) 04:48, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
Does anyone have any idea what the second paragraph in the lede means? DES ( talk) 20:33, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
According to this interview that Charlie Schmidt did with lovemeow.com - http://lovemeow.com/2009/09/exclusive-interview-on-fatso-the-keyboard-cat-with-charlie-schmidt/ - Fatso was about a year old when the video was originally made. The source from The Guardian says Fatso died in 1987 and from the video Fatso looks much older than three human years. I wanted to use it as a source but there's something in the back of my mind about the interview that is stopping me... NKTP ( talk) 14:28, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
At the moment, the section " Broadcast appearances" is rendered as a single long paragraph. Because almost none of the sentences are related to each other, this format strikes me as excessively hard to read. I think the section would probably be easier to follow if refactored into a bulleted list, preferably in chronological order, with one bullet entry for each appearance. — Jaydiem ( talk) 21:45, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
Are those his real arms or a prop? Robinrobin ( talk) 06:30, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
Please swing by and help improve this new article! :D-- Coin945 ( talk) 03:30, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
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Here's a source that explains the meme and Bento, the modern incarnation: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/20/bento-keyboard-cat-youtube-dies EvergreenFir (talk) 14:57, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
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