#20496
03/05/2001 6:53 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Pooh-Bah
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In reply to:
I took it home, and had a very lovable line of "Tuxedo" cats, looking like Sylvester. Incidentally they all had double paws,
How nice that they were all dressed up to go dancing. To the two-step, no doubt.
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#20497
03/05/2001 9:45 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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Dear TEd: and if I remember correctly El Gordo is not a tale bearer?
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#20498
03/05/2001 9:54 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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"How nice that they were all dressed up to go dancing. To the two-step, no doubt."
Dear Sparteye: They were turned away from all ballrooms, because though they wore Tuxedos, they also wore white hip boots, and refused to take off their white gloves.
And ladies in Tuxedos had not yet come into style.
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#20499
03/06/2001 2:12 AM
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journeyman
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journeyman
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"They are miniature predators; if they were big enough, they would eat you." Food for thought.
And then some still try anyway. [gives Isis a sour look]
Ali
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#20500
03/06/2001 2:59 PM
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journeyman
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We have 2 cats and 2 dogs. they vehemenently don't care about each other. The dogs are george and Martha
NAmed after the first president and his wife. the imbicile cats are named Jenny and Rita. Rita is 20 and Jenny is 2. Jenny has the stange habit of licking you and then biting you.
-Scott
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#20501
03/06/2001 6:22 PM
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veteran
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In reply to:
licking you then biting you
What's strange about that? Obviously she wants to know how you taste before she bites into you.
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#20502
03/06/2001 9:01 PM
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journeyman
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journeyman
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She should know what we taste like, she bit us a billion imes before!
-Scott
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#20503
03/06/2001 9:01 PM
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journeyman
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journeyman
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She should know what we taste like, she bit us a billion times before!
-Scott
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#20504
03/06/2001 9:27 PM
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member
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I have had many pets. I currently own 2 dogs, Blackie for obvious reasons, and Kodi (short for Kodiak Bear, what she looked like when we got her.) Not too long ago we had three cats, Boots - had white paws, Scoot - used to run the porch rail lickety-split to get away from the dogs, and my husband insisted we needed a Boogie so we could have boot-scootin'-boogie. The bad part is neither of us know how to do that dance. 
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#20505
03/06/2001 10:20 PM
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Jazzo wrote: In reply to:
I've recently been wanting to get an Irish Setter and name it Potato.
For reasons lost in the mists of time, the elegant, smoky grey Persian we had throughout my childhood was named Potato. I think my older brother named her, when he was first learning to speak, but no one's sure.
My partner's family until recently had a long-haired grey, who looked much like Potato, whose name was Chairman Mao (I understand mao is "cat" in Mandarin - confirmation of this anyone?).
My own cat is named Nico, and and he's got very sleek, black fur, he's know as Nico and the Velvet Underbelly.
My son has two frogs (hylas, in fact), although there were originally three of them, which he named when he was 2 years old: Humpty-Dumpty, Violin, and A (his first initial). Violin and A live on, and it turns out a 3-year old is not responsible enough to care for them. Frogs, anyone?
I also have a snake named Raya ("stripe" in Spanish) because she comes from Mexico and looks like this:
http://www.applegatereptiles.com/campbelli.htm
I've been told that no further pets will be allowed in the house.
Nice to be back,
Hyla
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#20506
03/06/2001 11:00 PM
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journeyman
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I've always wondered how they came up with traditional names like "Sparky", "Rex" and "Max".
-Scott
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#20507
03/06/2001 11:14 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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Being fonder of cats than of dogs, I am delighted that a Google on my handle reveals the following magnificent specimen: http://www.catassociation.com/winners.htm
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#20508
03/07/2001 11:07 AM
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Being fonder of cats than of dogs, I am delighted that a Google on my handle reveals the following magnificent specimen:
http://www.catassociation.com/winners.htm
I know it's not what you were referring to. but I rather like 'anyone travailing from infected areas'...
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#20509
03/07/2001 11:12 AM
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My partner's family until recently had a long-haired grey, who looked much like Potato, whose name was Chairman Mao (I understand mao is "cat" in Mandarin - confirmation of this anyone?).
Mao (Chairman, literally 'hair' or 'fur') and mao (cat) are homonyms written with different characters. THe panda is literaly a 'xiongmao' or 'bear-cat'.
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#20510
03/07/2001 11:34 AM
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journeyman
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something i read about housecats last night made me laugh out loud, and was obviously stated by a caninophile:
"They are miniature predators; if they were big enough, they would eat you."
Food for thought
A couple I know have spent their idle Sunday mornings wondering the following: if they both died at home, and no one knew, how long would it be before their cats ate their bodies?
This same couple also had their grave stones figured out. His would say "Look at me! Look at me!" Hers would say "What are you looking at?"
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#20511
03/07/2001 3:52 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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Sounds like the orignal gruesome twosome.
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#20512
03/07/2001 8:01 PM
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journeyman
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I would like to change my cat's name from rita to ribarbe (I got that name from the word rebarbative)
rebarbative- tending to irritate, repellant
-Scott
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#20513
03/07/2001 9:36 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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Dear jimthedogII: thanks for teaching me a new word.Not sure when I will get a chance to use it, since I would not be so unkind as to tell anybody their post was rebarbative.
Certainly your informative post could not be so characterized
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