A Pair of Cat's Names

On Sat, 5 May 2007 18:08:58 -0400, wrote:

In case you have a burning need to know which famous leader you a
http://similarminds.com/leader.html

Joyce

FWIW I got Abe Lincoln.
I guess I won't be going to any plays any time soon.

--
Joey DoWop Dee
Remember: It is To Laugh

On Sat, 5 May 2007 18:03:06 -0400, mers wrote:


My maternal grandparents are from Salerno & Palermo, so you know I have a
*very* quick fuse! Sometime's we're going to the living room, around supper
time, and Five will be just sauntering around then turn, look at me then
*RUN* and jump into *MY* chair, sit there and meow at me! She gets a new
"Chinese" name then - Foo King Cat! We can sit there watching TV and
Five will sit in Kathi's lap and just look at me. As soon as I get up to get
us some Cokes, that furry bugger will *leap* into my chair and take it over!


I like the Chinese name... but all kidding aside, the real Mandarin word for
cat is Mao, pronounced with a high-steady tone, much like the sound of a
cat's meow.

For those whose newsreaders display an x-face, the chinese symbol you see is
that for cat, i.e., mao.

--
Joey DoWop Dee
Remember: It is To Laugh

kirjoitti:
Christine K. wrote:

Irulan kirjoitti:

I don't know if this would upset anyone here, but
when I discovered that Lily's birthday (April 21)
was the same day as Hitler's, I went around the
house for about a week calling her my little Miss
Adolf Hitler.

Actually, Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, not April 21. I know this
because my dad's born on April 21 too, is half German and used to live
in what back then was Germany, but now belongs to Poland.

Well, if you think it's bad to share a birthday with Hitler, I
recently took a Stupid Internet Quiz (TM) called "Which Famous
Leader Are You?", and I came out as Adoph Hitler. Other people who
took the test were like Gandhi and Abe Lincoln and Einstein, and
I'm Hitler?? When someone else posted that their result was Saddam
Hussein, I felt much better.

In case you have a burning need to know which famous leader you a
http://similarminds.com/leader.html

Joyce

Took the test, I'm Hitler too...

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On Sat, 05 May 2007 18:03:06 -0400, mers yodeled:

On Sat, 05 May 2007 15:55:03 GMT, Ketzl's Dad wrote:

On Sat, 5 May 2007 11:38:56 -0400, Kreisleriana wrote:

I also call Ketzl (which, some people think, is a weird enough name. I
don't)

What could be more perfect for a kitty than Ketzl?

Nothing, in my mind, but to a lot of folks it seems like an odd name until I
explain that it means kitty or kitten.

Some of the other "pet names" that emerge spontaneously with reference to
said feline might tend to be off-putting to some, which is maybe why I don't
use them all the time or when others are around (and I won't repeat any of
them here) but I think it's a cultural thing there, too.

Neapolitans (which I'm not) and southern Italians in general (of which I am
one) have a habit of calling people they're fond of nicknames that might
sound insulting... it's a way of letting someone know you love them. :-)

My maternal grandparents are from Salerno & Palermo, so you know I have a
*very* quick fuse!


Mine are from Palermo, the Moorish town. Northern Italians used
to refer to Sicily as "down in Africa."


Theresa
Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh

Make Levees, Not War

On 05 May 2007 22:08:58 GMT, yodeled:

Christine K. wrote:

Irulan kirjoitti:

I don't know if this would upset anyone here, but
when I discovered that Lily's birthday (April 21)
was the same day as Hitler's, I went around the
house for about a week calling her my little Miss
Adolf Hitler.

Actually, Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, not April 21. I know this
because my dad's born on April 21 too, is half German and used to live
in what back then was Germany, but now belongs to Poland.

Well, if you think it's bad to share a birthday with Hitler, I
recently took a Stupid Internet Quiz (TM) called "Which Famous
Leader Are You?", and I came out as Adoph Hitler. Other people who
took the test were like Gandhi and Abe Lincoln and Einstein, and
I'm Hitler?? When someone else posted that their result was Saddam
Hussein, I felt much better.

In case you have a burning need to know which famous leader you a
http://similarminds.com/leader.html

Joyce

Well, I once took a test to find out what philosopher I was, and I
came out tied as Thomas Aquinas and John Stuart Mill!






Theresa
Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh

Make Levees, Not War

On Sun, 06 May 2007 01:41:08 +0300, "Christine K."
yodeled:

kirjoitti:
Christine K. wrote:

Irulan kirjoitti:

I don't know if this would upset anyone here, but
when I discovered that Lily's birthday (April 21)
was the same day as Hitler's, I went around the
house for about a week calling her my little Miss
Adolf Hitler.

Actually, Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, not April 21. I know this
because my dad's born on April 21 too, is half German and used to live
in what back then was Germany, but now belongs to Poland.

Well, if you think it's bad to share a birthday with Hitler, I
recently took a Stupid Internet Quiz (TM) called "Which Famous
Leader Are You?", and I came out as Adoph Hitler. Other people who
took the test were like Gandhi and Abe Lincoln and Einstein, and
I'm Hitler?? When someone else posted that their result was Saddam
Hussein, I felt much better.

In case you have a burning need to know which famous leader you a
http://similarminds.com/leader.html

Joyce

Took the test, I'm Hitler too...


I'm Einstein!!!!

Guess all those people who have called me "Einstein" in my life were
right!!!!!


Theresa
Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh

Make Levees, Not War

On Sat, 5 May 2007 18:45:24 -0400, Kreisleriana wrote:

On Sat, 05 May 2007 18:03:06 -0400, mers yodeled:

On Sat, 05 May 2007 15:55:03 GMT, Ketzl's Dad wrote:

On Sat, 5 May 2007 11:38:56 -0400, Kreisleriana wrote:

I also call Ketzl (which, some people think, is a weird enough name. I
don't)

What could be more perfect for a kitty than Ketzl?

Nothing, in my mind, but to a lot of folks it seems like an odd name until
I
explain that it means kitty or kitten.

Some of the other "pet names" that emerge spontaneously with reference to
said feline might tend to be off-putting to some, which is maybe why I
don't
use them all the time or when others are around (and I won't repeat any of
them here) but I think it's a cultural thing there, too.

Neapolitans (which I'm not) and southern Italians in general (of which I
am
one) have a habit of calling people they're fond of nicknames that might
sound insulting... it's a way of letting someone know you love them. :-)

My maternal grandparents are from Salerno & Palermo, so you know I have a
*very* quick fuse!


Mine are from Palermo, the Moorish town. Northern Italians used
to refer to Sicily as "down in Africa."


Theresa
Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh

Make Levees, Not War

I can beat that: My paternal grandparents are from *outside of* Palermo.
Nonno from Enna (which I have found on a map of Sicily) and Nonna from Villa
Rosa, which was about as hard to find as the proverbial needle.

Mafia aside, (since "there's no such thing as the Mafia" anyway) Sicilian
culture and history is very complex. What an amalgam.

--
Joey DoWop Dee
Remember: It is To Laugh

On Sat, 05 May 2007 18:05:46 +0000, mlbriggs wrote:

On Sat, 05 May 2007 15:55:03 +0000, Ketzl's Dad wrote:

On Sat, 5 May 2007 11:38:56 -0400, Kreisleriana wrote:

I also call Ketzl (which, some people think, is a weird enough name. I
don't)

What could be more perfect for a kitty than Ketzl?

Nothing, in my mind, but to a lot of folks it seems like an odd name until I
explain that it means kitty or kitten.

Some of the other "pet names" that emerge spontaneously with reference to
said feline might tend to be off-putting to some, which is maybe why I don't
use them all the time or when others are around (and I won't repeat any of
them here) but I think it's a cultural thing there, too.

Neapolitans (which I'm not) and southern Italians in general (of which I am
one) have a habit of calling people they're fond of nicknames that might
sound insulting... it's a way of letting someone know you love them. :-)


When I was a child, the neighbors across the street had a female blue cat
named Gee Whizz. I loved Gee Whizz. She was the mother of my first cat,
Frisky, that was my 10th birthday present. MLB

The rest of the story: I remember the father looked at the pregnant stray
female who wandered in stating "Gee whizz" what will we do with that cat?
They kept her and she subsequently had several batches of kittens. This
was way back in time before they spayed cats. He was a kindhearted man
who liked animals and kids. He taught us (my brother and me plus his two
kids )to play Rummy and Poker.

On Sat, 05 May 2007 23:13:37 GMT, Ketzl's Dad
yodeled:

On Sat, 5 May 2007 18:45:24 -0400, Kreisleriana wrote:

On Sat, 05 May 2007 18:03:06 -0400, mers yodeled:

On Sat, 05 May 2007 15:55:03 GMT, Ketzl's Dad wrote:

On Sat, 5 May 2007 11:38:56 -0400, Kreisleriana wrote:

I also call Ketzl (which, some people think, is a weird enough name. I
don't)

What could be more perfect for a kitty than Ketzl?

Nothing, in my mind, but to a lot of folks it seems like an odd name until
I
explain that it means kitty or kitten.

Some of the other "pet names" that emerge spontaneously with reference to
said feline might tend to be off-putting to some, which is maybe why I
don't
use them all the time or when others are around (and I won't repeat any of
them here) but I think it's a cultural thing there, too.

Neapolitans (which I'm not) and southern Italians in general (of which I
am
one) have a habit of calling people they're fond of nicknames that might
sound insulting... it's a way of letting someone know you love them. :-)

My maternal grandparents are from Salerno & Palermo, so you know I have a
*very* quick fuse!


Mine are from Palermo, the Moorish town. Northern Italians used
to refer to Sicily as "down in Africa."


Theresa
Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh

Make Levees, Not War

I can beat that: My paternal grandparents are from *outside of* Palermo.
Nonno from Enna (which I have found on a map of Sicily) and Nonna from Villa
Rosa, which was about as hard to find as the proverbial needle.

Mafia aside, (since "there's no such thing as the Mafia" anyway) Sicilian
culture and history is very complex. What an amalgam.


Good book:
http://tinyurl.com/2t9yns


Theresa
Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh

Make Levees, Not War

On Sat, 5 May 2007 19:59:12 -0400, Kreisleriana wrote:

On Sat, 05 May 2007 23:13:37 GMT, Ketzl's Dad
yodeled:

On Sat, 5 May 2007 18:45:24 -0400, Kreisleriana wrote:

On Sat, 05 May 2007 18:03:06 -0400, mers yodeled:

On Sat, 05 May 2007 15:55:03 GMT, Ketzl's Dad wrote:

On Sat, 5 May 2007 11:38:56 -0400, Kreisleriana wrote:

I also call Ketzl (which, some people think, is a weird enough name. I
don't)

What could be more perfect for a kitty than Ketzl?

Nothing, in my mind, but to a lot of folks it seems like an odd name
until
I
explain that it means kitty or kitten.

Some of the other "pet names" that emerge spontaneously with reference
to
said feline might tend to be off-putting to some, which is maybe why I
don't
use them all the time or when others are around (and I won't repeat any
of
them here) but I think it's a cultural thing there, too.

Neapolitans (which I'm not) and southern Italians in general (of which I
am
one) have a habit of calling people they're fond of nicknames that might
sound insulting... it's a way of letting someone know you love them. :-)

My maternal grandparents are from Salerno & Palermo, so you know I have a
*very* quick fuse!


Mine are from Palermo, the Moorish town. Northern Italians used
to refer to Sicily as "down in Africa."


Theresa
Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh

Make Levees, Not War

I can beat that: My paternal grandparents are from *outside of* Palermo.
Nonno from Enna (which I have found on a map of Sicily) and Nonna from
Villa
Rosa, which was about as hard to find as the proverbial needle.

Mafia aside, (since "there's no such thing as the Mafia" anyway) Sicilian
culture and history is very complex. What an amalgam.


Good book:
http://tinyurl.com/2t9yns


Theresa
Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh

Make Levees, Not War

Thanks. I may add it to my growing collection.

--
Joey DoWop Dee
Remember: It is To Laugh