A Pair of Cat's Names

Kathy wrote:

I had never heard the term John Thomas being used to mean penis, but I'm
in the US. Odd and unusual names are the norm over here...Our cat's name
is Woodgie, because my daughter (not a little kid, BTW)says that is what
you say when you tickle a kitten...So let's get over this one and change
the subject to weird pet names?

OK, how do you pronounce "Woodgie"? Do the oo's rhyme with "wood", or
with "food"?

One of my cats is named Smudge, but several years ago, a woman I knew
who had Scottish accent would call her "Smoodge", with the oo's like
the ones in "wood". So I sometimes call her "Smoodgie" or, by extension,
"Smoodgie Woodgie".

I had no idea that Woodgie was the official word to say when tickling
a kitten!

Joyce

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. She never goes outside so I never
had the need to call her that where anyone else would
hear.

Lily & her mama

--
Irulan
from the stars we come
to the stars we return
from now until the end of time.

"Tish" wrote in message
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On May 5, 8:49 am, wrote:

For that reason, if someone I didn't know were to name their cat, say,
"Sh*thead", I would be alert to potential animal abuse or neglect, as
such
a name *might* (I emphasize "might", because it might not) indicate a
nasty attitude toward the cat. I would be far more concerned about that
than about the name itself.

I guess what I'm saying is that just because something might *feel*
wrong,
that doesn't mean it *is* wrong.

What a weird thread. But I like it.

Joyce

In that case you'd either be talking to a fan of "The Jerk" (where
Steve Martin had a dog called "****head") or me, where our late
lamented queen-o-the-household, Ted, rejoiced in being christened
exactly that name. We didn't name her, but neither did we feel it
necessary to change her name after she came to live with us.

My mother's heart-cat, Psnott, was chistened Snot-pott because of a
smudge on his nose that looked just like he needed to wipe it. We
adjusted the spelling to Psnott because he was an expert at the silent
"p"! (particularly later in life when his kidneys started to fail)

An acquaintance called his cat "pussy licker", which didn't do much
for me, but he got an enormous kick out of standing outside his worst-
house-in-best-street hovel yelling for her. "Puss" didn't mind one
bit and most of us who knew her called her by her abbreviated name.

My aunt almost got away with calling her Alsation (German Shepherd)
pup "wherdi", short for "where did he wee", but it mutated into
Wombles via a long series of intermediate names. His canine companion
was a very, very stout spaniel called "Supergirl", which emphasized
exactly how super she wasn't (she wasn't a good match for the
family).

Really, our current batch of Spock, Persephone (Queen of the
Underpants Gnomes) and Fox are really all very conventionally named by
comparison!

Tish

Ketzl's Dad wrote:

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

I certainly don't. My grandmother always called me that. (Well, ketzela,
since I was a girl.) She also just called me "kitten". But I never
connected those two names as being the same word, because when I heard
"ketzela", it sounded like "kettle" to me, so that's what I thought of.
(And I never questioned why my grandmother would be calling me "kettle". )

Joyce

On Sat, 5 May 2007 14:55:56 -0400, wrote:

Ketzl's Dad wrote:

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

I certainly don't. My grandmother always called me that. (Well, ketzela,
since I was a girl.) She also just called me "kitten". But I never
connected those two names as being the same word, because when I heard
"ketzela", it sounded like "kettle" to me, so that's what I thought of.
(And I never questioned why my grandmother would be calling me "kettle". )

Joyce

I'm sorry if I am repeating myself, here but your story brings to mind my
wonderful very late Godmother, who used to greet me in her best Sicilian with
"chi si bedd'", which translates to "you're so cute", more or less, but which
sounds like "kiss a bed!" and I always wondered, but never asked her, why she
wanted me to kiss a bed.

--
Joey DoWop Dee
Remember: It is To Laugh

Ketzl's Dad wrote:

On Sat, 5 May 2007 14:55:56 -0400, wrote:

(And I never questioned why my grandmother would be calling me
"kettle". )

I'm sorry if I am repeating myself, here but your story brings to
mind my wonderful very late Godmother, who used to greet me in her
best Sicilian with "chi si bedd'", which translates to "you're so
cute", more or less, but which sounds like "kiss a bed!" and I always
wondered, but never asked her, why she wanted me to kiss a bed.

Hee hee... the mysterious world of grown-ups.

Joyce

On Sat, 05 May 2007 19:04:36 GMT, Ketzl's Dad
yodeled:

On Sat, 5 May 2007 14:55:56 -0400, wrote:

Ketzl's Dad wrote:

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

I certainly don't. My grandmother always called me that. (Well, ketzela,
since I was a girl.) She also just called me "kitten". But I never
connected those two names as being the same word, because when I heard
"ketzela", it sounded like "kettle" to me, so that's what I thought of.
(And I never questioned why my grandmother would be calling me "kettle". )

Joyce

I'm sorry if I am repeating myself, here but your story brings to mind my
wonderful very late Godmother, who used to greet me in her best Sicilian with
"chi si bedd'", which translates to "you're so cute", more or less, but which
sounds like "kiss a bed!" and I always wondered, but never asked her, why she
wanted me to kiss a bed.


My grandma always used to say about "che faccia brut!" which means
what an ugly face. But I never thought my grandma thought we were
ugly.



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

Make Levees, Not War

On 05 May 2007 19:13:29 GMT, yodeled:

Ketzl's Dad wrote:

On Sat, 5 May 2007 14:55:56 -0400, wrote:

(And I never questioned why my grandmother would be calling me
"kettle". )

I'm sorry if I am repeating myself, here but your story brings to
mind my wonderful very late Godmother, who used to greet me in her
best Sicilian with "chi si bedd'", which translates to "you're so
cute", more or less, but which sounds like "kiss a bed!" and I always
wondered, but never asked her, why she wanted me to kiss a bed.

Hee hee... the mysterious world of grown-ups.

Joyce


I remember distinctly when I was little thinking people were talking
about an elephant named Gerald. It turned out to be Ella Fitzgerald.
:P

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

Make Levees, Not War

On Sat, 5 May 2007 15:35:35 -0400, Kreisleriana wrote:

My grandma always used to say about "che faccia brut!" which means
what an ugly face. But I never thought my grandma thought we were
ugly.

That's what I'm tawwkin' about! :-)

--
Joey DoWop Dee
Remember: It is To Laugh

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. She never goes outside so I never
had the need to call her that where anyone else would
hear.

Lily & her mama


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.

--
Christine in Laitila, Finland
christal63 (at) gmail (dot) com
photos: http://photos.yahoo.com/christal63
photos: http://community.webshots.com/user/chkr63

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