Perhaps they all went to Tulas?

[Cirque du So-What]

3. Maybe Tilly, Arkansas

Many years ago, I had a cat I named Tillie. She and I were watching The Weather Channel, monitoring severe thunderstorms in Tornado Alley. The very animated meteorologist was trying to give blow-by-blow of everything all at once, when something in Tilly, AR caught his attention. He said ‘Tilly’ about 10 times in the space of a minute, prompting my Tillie to sit up, gaze toward the TV, and shoot a glance toward me. When the weather guy said, ‘yes, it’s Tilly!’, my Tillie bounded out of the room, probably wondering why the Bother Box was talking about her.