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loadedliberal wrote:To the owner of the pink Pruis your car is being towed to the owner of the pink pruis your car is being towed

sjfcontrol wrote:

SQLGeek wrote:Tigger isn't stable enough for this type of precision work because all he wants to do is bounce.

Then perhaps Morris the Cat? I always figured he must be stoned. His attitude was just too laid-back.
Puss-in-Boots?
The Cat-in-the-Hat?
Eveready, the 9-lives battery cat?
The cat with the fiddle?
The fat cat on the mat?
Alice's Cheshire cat?
Any cat from "Cats"
Crookshanks? (Harry Potter)

Holy chopsticks! There are a LOT of cats in literature... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fi ... er_felines" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Naming of Cats

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.
First of all, there's the name that the family use daily,
Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James,
Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey -
All of them sensible everyday names.

There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter,
Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames:
Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter -
But all of them sensible everyday names.

But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular,
A name that's peculiar, and more dignified,
Else how can he keep his tail perpendicular,
Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?

Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,
Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,
Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum -
Names that never belong to more than one cat.

But above and beyond there's still one name left over,
And that is the name that you never will guess;
The name that no human research can discover -
But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.

When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
His ineffable effable
Effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular Name.

- T.S. Eliot
(from "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats")

The Annoyed Man wrote:

sjfcontrol wrote:

SQLGeek wrote:Tigger isn't stable enough for this type of precision work because all he wants to do is bounce.

Then perhaps Morris the Cat? I always figured he must be stoned. His attitude was just too laid-back.
Puss-in-Boots?
The Cat-in-the-Hat?
Eveready, the 9-lives battery cat?
The cat with the fiddle?
The fat cat on the mat?
Alice's Cheshire cat?
Any cat from "Cats"
Crookshanks? (Harry Potter)

Holy chopsticks! There are a LOT of cats in literature... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fi ... er_felines" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Naming of Cats, by T.S. Elliot: http://www.moggies.co.uk/html/oldpssm.html

The Naming of Cats

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.
First of all, there's the name that the family use daily,
Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James,
Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey -
All of them sensible everyday names.

There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter,
Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames:
Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter -
But all of them sensible everyday names.

But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular,
A name that's peculiar, and more dignified,
Else how can he keep his tail perpendicular,
Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?

Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,
Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,
Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum -
Names that never belong to more than one cat.

But above and beyond there's still one name left over,
And that is the name that you never will guess;
The name that no human research can discover -
But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.

When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
His ineffable effable
Effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular Name.

- T.S. Eliot
(from "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats")

Jabberwocky

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought--
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! and through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

gigag04 wrote:My lab puppy needs a new toy.

Discuss.

SQLGeek wrote:Speaking of a Prius..I was working in downtown Houston yesterday. While walking to my building, I saw a Prius with CA plates go flying the wrong way down Smith St, then take a right turn wrong way down another one way street, then approach a light (they must not have noticed was backwards) and attempt to turn left wrong way on yet another one way street. Fortunately cross traffic stopped them long enough for an alert pedestrian to yell that they were going the wrong way.

Don't see that every day.

SQLGeek wrote:Speaking of a Prius..I was working in downtown Houston yesterday. While walking to my building, I saw a Prius with CA plates go flying the wrong way down Smith St, then take a right turn wrong way down another one way street, then approach a light (they must not have noticed was backwards) and attempt to turn left wrong way on yet another one way street. Fortunately cross traffic stopped them long enough for an alert pedestrian to yell that they were going the wrong way.

Don't see that every day.

SQLGeek wrote:One correction...the driver was not a man.

Skiprr wrote:The was a young man in Washington,
Who felt that no one deserved a gun.
But then what if threatened,
By felon unfrightened?
Said he, “Well, they should just turn and run.”

My friend Steve likes cats. People are always saying ‘Oh, Steve’s really a cat person.’ No, he’s not. If Steve were a cat person, it’d be, like, ‘Hey, Steve never goes in the pool.’

74novaman wrote:The comedian Demitri Martin talks about cats.

My friend Steve likes cats. People are always saying ‘Oh, Steve’s really a cat person.’ No, he’s not. If Steve were a cat person, it’d be, like, ‘Hey, Steve never goes in the pool.’