Talk:Bill the Cat

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[edit] BSE

"It is later hinted that his rotting carcass was the source of the recent BSE epidemic."

Source? JWSchmidt 06:07, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)

There is a sequence within the comic strip where Opus remembers most of his friends from Bloom County, and ponders their current wherabouts. A text box pointing at the memory of Bill proclaims "Rendered carcass could be source of mad cow epidemic", but is nothing more than simple conjecture on Opus' part. It was later disproved by the events of the comic, of course.--DXI 08:38, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Is this article right?

I don't know very much about the subject, but almost the entire article sounds wrong and phony. For example, at the bottom, that Bill the Cat becomes friends with the cartoonist, which is definently not right, because it is an imaginary character. Almost everything in the article sounds bogus and reminds me of some crazy soap opera plot. Something that is certain that it is written in an in-universe style. Estridaldrea 00:01, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

I don't know what the article looked like when you saw it in September, but it looks fairly accurate to me (except for no reference to vomiting). Pooua (talk) 06:41, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Puking?

One strip (I think it was "Bloom County") described themselves, ending with "a cat who, well, throws up a lot." I don't recall him throwing up all that much, but maybe I blotted that out of my memory. Anyway, it seems like that should be in this article. Pooua (talk) 06:41, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

It was one of the strips when Bill was running for president. —Torc. ^(Talk.) 09:11, 15 February 2008 (UTC)