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Aokay (David G. Bryce)
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| Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 8:09 am
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Remember the wisdom of T. S. Eliot when you name that cat!
The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
It isn't just one of your holiday games;
You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
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from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
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John Ings
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| Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 7:56 pm
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On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 01:45:43 -0500, "Aokay (David G. Bryce)"
<U.Name.It@spammers.com> wrote:
| Quote: | Remember the wisdom of T. S. Eliot when you name that cat!
The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
It isn't just one of your holiday games;
You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
,,,,,
from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
aok
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One of my cats named himself. There was a dog in the house where he
was born, and even as a tiny kitten, when that dog came near, he said
his name-- Fitz!
Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw--
For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law. ... |
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Jess Askin
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| Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 2:13 am
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"Aokay (David G. Bryce)" <U.Name.It@spammers.com> wrote in message
news:9gchu091ahrbo6m5tisv4gqevs1qtdh1or@4ax.com...
| Quote: | Remember the wisdom of T. S. Eliot when you name that cat!
The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
It isn't just one of your holiday games;
You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
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But you can only give him one of those names, no? |
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John Dean
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| Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 6:23 am
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John Ings wrote:
| Quote: | On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 01:45:43 -0500, "Aokay (David G. Bryce)"
U.Name.It@spammers.com> wrote:
Remember the wisdom of T. S. Eliot when you name that cat!
The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
It isn't just one of your holiday games;
You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
,,,,,
from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
aok
One of my cats named himself. There was a dog in the house where he
was born, and even as a tiny kitten, when that dog came near, he said
his name-- Fitz!
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We had a cat whom we deemed to have named herself. Nothing was real to
her until she had biffed it with her paw. So she was Biffer. Then we
went on holiday to Belgium and had to fill in a registration form where
alternatives were asterisked with a parenthetical request (* biffer la
mention inutile) so she became Biffer the Useless Mention.
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John Dean
Oxford |
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R H Draney
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| Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 8:13 am
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irwell filted:
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Cats over the years we gave names to.
Monty, Henry, Mowgli, Violette, Trooper,
Sandy, Bardolino, Tuxedo, Sam.
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Cats I've given names to:
Tessie, Lessie and Gurp...(of this litter of three females who arrived when I
was about two years old, we kept Gurp)....
Yin and Yang....
....and among the feral colony recently using my patio as a dormitory/nursery: TT
(for "Trailer Trash"), Jet and his younger twin siblings Boeing and Lockheed
(for locomotion more than for color, though both suggest the same name), T2 (who
has the same markings as her mother), and "The Russian" (nicknamed from "Ivan
Irov")....r |
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irwell
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| Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 8:14 am
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Cats over the years we gave names to.
Monty, Henry, Mowgli, Violette, Trooper,
Sandy, Bardolino, Tuxedo, Sam. |
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John Dean
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| Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 9:29 pm
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irwell wrote:
| Quote: | Cats over the years we gave names to.
Monty, Henry, Mowgli, Violette, Trooper,
Sandy, Bardolino, Tuxedo, Sam.
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What did you call them?
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John Dean
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irwell
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| Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 11:14 pm
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On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:29:37 +0100, "John Dean" <john-dean@frag.lineone.net>
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| Quote: | irwell wrote:
Cats over the years we gave names to.
Monty, Henry, Mowgli, Violette, Trooper,
Sandy, Bardolino, Tuxedo, Sam.
What did you call them?
Ch-ch-ch! |
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Harvey Van Sickle
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| Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 11:19 pm
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On 17 Jan 2005, irwell wrote
| Quote: | Cats over the years we gave names to.
Monty, Henry, Mowgli, Violette, Trooper,
Sandy, Bardolino, Tuxedo, Sam.
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Years ago I had a cat I named "maow", because she didn't make
the diphthong sound of "miao" when she mewed. (It sounded like "ow"
with an "m" in front of it.)
It took quite a while for me to realise that some people thought I was
paying homage to a certain Chinese communist leader.
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Cheers, Harvey
Ottawa/Toronto/Edmonton for 30 years;
Southern England for the past 22 years.
(for e-mail, change harvey.news to harvey.van) |
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Django Cat
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| Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 11:41 pm
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On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:19:42 GMT, Harvey Van Sickle
<harvey.news@ntlworld.com> wrote:
| Quote: | On 17 Jan 2005, irwell wrote
Cats over the years we gave names to.
Monty, Henry, Mowgli, Violette, Trooper,
Sandy, Bardolino, Tuxedo, Sam.
Years ago I had a cat I named "maow", because she didn't make
the diphthong sound of "miao" when she mewed. (It sounded like "ow"
with an "m" in front of it.)
It took quite a while for me to realise that some people thought I was
paying homage to a certain Chinese communist leader.
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If you think that's grim, one of my former linguistics lecturers had a
cat that bit everything in sight.
She named it 'Chompsky'.
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don groves
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| Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 2:04 am
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In article <hiqnu05fagapjjtun69lgl852ac5ks4vo9@4ax.com>, Django
Cat at nospam@please.com hath writ:
| Quote: | On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:19:42 GMT, Harvey Van Sickle
harvey.news@ntlworld.com> wrote:
On 17 Jan 2005, irwell wrote
Cats over the years we gave names to.
Monty, Henry, Mowgli, Violette, Trooper,
Sandy, Bardolino, Tuxedo, Sam.
Years ago I had a cat I named "maow", because she didn't make
the diphthong sound of "miao" when she mewed. (It sounded like "ow"
with an "m" in front of it.)
It took quite a while for me to realise that some people thought I was
paying homage to a certain Chinese communist leader.
If you think that's grim, one of my former linguistics lecturers had a
cat that bit everything in sight.
She named it 'Chompsky'.
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Sounds noamal to me.
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dg (domain=ccwebster) |
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Sara Lorimer
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| Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 2:49 am
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Harvey Van Sickle wrote:
| Quote: | Years ago I had a cat I named "maow", because she didn't make
the diphthong sound of "miao" when she mewed. (It sounded like "ow"
with an "m" in front of it.)
It took quite a while for me to realise that some people thought I was
paying homage to a certain Chinese communist leader.
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Similarly, I used to live with a cat named Lao Tse.
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Django Cat
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| Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 3:42 am
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On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:41:40 +0000, Django Cat <nospam@please.com>
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| Quote: | On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:19:42 GMT, Harvey Van Sickle
harvey.news@ntlworld.com> wrote:
On 17 Jan 2005, irwell wrote
Cats over the years we gave names to.
Monty, Henry, Mowgli, Violette, Trooper,
Sandy, Bardolino, Tuxedo, Sam.
Years ago I had a cat I named "maow", because she didn't make
the diphthong sound of "miao" when she mewed. (It sounded like "ow"
with an "m" in front of it.)
It took quite a while for me to realise that some people thought I was
paying homage to a certain Chinese communist leader.
If you think that's grim, one of my former linguistics lecturers had a
cat that bit everything in sight.
She named it 'Chompsky'.
DC.
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Just to answer myself, come to think of it...
| Quote: | She named it 'Chompsky'.
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That was the name she gave it, vs
'She called it Chompsky'
on a day to day basis.
DC |
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