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"Sometimes the pool-pah," Bokonon tells us, "exceeds the power of humans to comment." Bokonon translates pool-pah at one point in The Books of Bokonon as "shit storm" and at another point as "wrath of God."
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Bingo! It was years ago, and I'd forgotten the Vonnegut connection. Thanks.
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well, my wife has decided that since Tigger is 2 1/2, we can't change his name. so the search for a good nickname is now afoot. "Tig" seems to be leading the way... you may now resume your previous digression... 
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The fancies of Old Possum aside, it’s my experience that cats generally don’t care what you call them as long as you feed them and give them water. Since they don’t understand what you’re saying, or what their “name” means anyway, they more than likely associate the sounds of their name with a vague concept that you are addressing them, if indeed they think about it at all. Certainly, one’s tone of voice and facial expressions influences their interpretations of the sounds one makes as well. Consider too, that if everyone stops calling a cat by whatever name it was previously given, it will eventually begin to recognize the new sounds of its new name, and do with it what it will. Just keep the food and water coming.
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>Since they don’t understand what you’re saying,
HA!
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>What Dogs Hear
Price: $3.29
was it really that long ago that greeting cards were two bits... four bits... six bits...?
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As cases-in-point, my male cat answers (in his own special way) to: Hot-rod, Fuzzy-butt, Dingleberry, Dumb-ass, and Knuckle-head. My female cat answers (in her own special way) to: Kitty-pop, Pretty-girl, Fuzzy-butt, Fuzzy-pants, and Little Miss Priss-n-fur.
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For future ref., eta--you might try Babelfish.
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I'm soooooo getting one of these.
TOKYO - After selling 300,000 pet-lovers on the Bowlingual gadget that supposedly translates a dog's bark into human language, a toymaker hopes to parlay that success into a new hit product: Meowlingual.
The cat-shaped machine set to go on sale in Japan in November translates meows and purrs into human phrases such as "I can't stand it," although exact wording hasn't been decided yet, Tokyo-based Takara Co. said Wednesday.
The translation device will likely sell for about $74, slightly cheaper than the $125 Bowlingual, which has been a big hit in Japan.
Both gadgets use scientific data on animal sounds from a Tokyo laboratory that also analyzes human voices, helps solve crime and takes part in designing software for mobile phones.
A really practical goodie! Well...for someone, I guess. >^--^<
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