― mike hanle y, Sunday, 12 May 2002 00:00 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― Kimberley Allan, Sunday, 12 May 2002 00:00 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― Kim, Sunday, 12 May 2002 00:00 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― jess, Sunday, 12 May 2002 00:00 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― Josh, Sunday, 12 May 2002 00:00 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― damaris marie hane, Sunday, 12 May 2002 00:00 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Sunday, 12 May 2002 00:00 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
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― nathalie, Sunday, 12 May 2002 00:00 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
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― did, Sunday, 12 May 2002 00:00 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
An actual name of a cat my grandparents owned in the forties or something. Called 'Thomascat' for short.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 12 May 2002 00:00 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― Owl Man, Sunday, 12 May 2002 00:00 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― celeste, Sunday, 12 May 2002 00:00 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― felicity, Sunday, 12 May 2002 00:00 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
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 Jonathon, George or Bill Bailey-
All of them sensible everyday names.
There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter,
Some for 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 up 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-
― rener, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― Jonnie, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
Convention for humorously named cats is so that you get to say something amusing when you put it out, or call it in (source: Vienna in Rising Damp). Much less wittily you can call a cat "YRALLABNCHACNTS" and yell it loudly at your neighbours with no fear of (fair) reprisal.
― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
― jen, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (sixteen years ago) Permalink
Stevie D inspired me to name my next cat Brenda.
thanks Stevie D.
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Sunday, 2 August 2009 13:47 (nine years ago) Permalink
haha brenda is a great name for a cat. not so much for a person.
― blobfish russian (harbl), Sunday, 2 August 2009 14:02 (nine years ago) Permalink
As in Walsh?
― tehresa, Sunday, 2 August 2009 19:06 (nine years ago) Permalink
or the one in Six Feet Under?
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Sunday, 2 August 2009 19:08 (nine years ago) Permalink
"Stevens"
― Neil Willett, Sunday, 2 August 2009 21:47 (nine years ago) Permalink
i'm taking care of a (female) cat named steven right now
― blobfish russian (harbl), Sunday, 2 August 2009 21:53 (nine years ago) Permalink
Data data (or Dayta Dae Ta)
I like the double name as one name idea, a la Dwayne Wayne, but a cat. Darlene also (a la Brenda).
― generalmills, Monday, 3 August 2009 01:05 (nine years ago) Permalink
― tehresa, Sunday, August 2, 2009 8:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
uh huh
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, 3 August 2009 01:07 (nine years ago) Permalink
can't wail til she's in her teen years...
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, 3 August 2009 01:08 (nine years ago) Permalink
surm, you are my hero <3
― tehresa, Monday, 3 August 2009 01:08 (nine years ago) Permalink
:D
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, 3 August 2009 01:12 (nine years ago) Permalink
Flonase
― https://vine.co/v/hB9QbLYPP0K (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 9 September 2013 20:08 (four years ago) Permalink
Passion Fruit
Stevie D inspired me to name my next cat Brenda.thanks Stevie D.― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Sunday, August 2, 2009 8:47 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Sunday, August 2, 2009 8:47 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
OH MY GOD
― https://vine.co/v/hB9QbLYPP0K (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 9 September 2013 20:09 (four years ago) Permalink
Carl Ticklefeathers Extreme Johnson
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Thursday, 8 February 2018 13:32 (six months ago) Permalink
Gerald Q. Phlogiston
― "oh no my cheds" man had dark to black packet (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 February 2018 13:36 (six months ago) Permalink
Mackworth Jigglesbottom Romeo Ficklepuss Bates
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Thursday, 8 February 2018 13:42 (six months ago) Permalink
Vice Admiral James Stockdale
― I'm very active in the pegasus community (Old Lunch), Thursday, 8 February 2018 13:48 (six months ago) Permalink
Tathagata Davida
― "oh no my cheds" man had dark to black packet (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 February 2018 13:49 (six months ago) Permalink
Horatio
― treeship 2, Thursday, 8 February 2018 13:49 (six months ago) Permalink
I want to name a pet Giuseppe too
― treeship 2, Thursday, 8 February 2018 13:50 (six months ago) Permalink
Moussaka
― mick signals, Thursday, 8 February 2018 13:50 (six months ago) Permalink
Keiji (would have to be an all black cat)
― Agharta Christie (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 8 February 2018 13:51 (six months ago) Permalink
Hammy
― I'm very active in the pegasus community (Old Lunch), Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:07 (six months ago) Permalink
steve
― he facked his death (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:43 (six months ago) Permalink
Ernie
― I'm very active in the pegasus community (Old Lunch), Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:44 (six months ago) Permalink
Ulysses
― call me by your name..or Finn (fionnland), Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:48 (six months ago) Permalink
forks
― lowercase (eric), Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:52 (six months ago) Permalink
Miss Yvonne
― I'm very active in the pegasus community (Old Lunch), Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:52 (six months ago) Permalink
sir killingsworth murderton-jones
― he facked his death (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:54 (six months ago) Permalink
The Purrminator
― "oh no my cheds" man had dark to black packet (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:54 (six months ago) Permalink
norbert
i am also partial to forks
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 8 February 2018 15:00 (six months ago) Permalink
Keith
― cajunsunday, Thursday, 8 February 2018 15:06 (six months ago) Permalink
kettle bell
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 8 February 2018 15:07 (six months ago) Permalink
Single-Stage Enclosed-Impeller Back Pull Out Process Pump for Abrasive Slurries, Jr.
― I'm very active in the pegasus community (Old Lunch), Thursday, 8 February 2018 15:13 (six months ago) Permalink
The Name of This Cat Is Talking Heads
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 9 February 2018 03:33 (six months ago) Permalink
ZitherNapolean
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 9 February 2018 04:10 (six months ago) Permalink
THE SLUT
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Friday, 9 February 2018 21:40 (six months ago) Permalink
they don't acknowledge their name anyway, I vote "Cat"
― StanM, Friday, 9 February 2018 22:47 (six months ago) Permalink
"meow"
― lowercase (eric), Friday, 9 February 2018 22:52 (six months ago) Permalink
King Tubby
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 February 2018 23:02 (six months ago) Permalink
BobMelMurph
― brimstead, Saturday, 10 February 2018 00:06 (six months ago) Permalink
Twila
― brimstead, Saturday, 10 February 2018 00:07 (six months ago) Permalink
my ex vetoed me calling our cat Dijon, and as one cat is quite enough for me to handle i hopefully won't be in the market for a new one for many years. so please call your cat Dijon if you like the name
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 10 February 2018 00:08 (six months ago) Permalink
We named our two cats (sister and brother) Chihiro and Haku, after the protagonists in Miyazaki’s Spirited Away(which all generations in our family adore). We often shorten the sister’s name to a simple “Chichi”.
― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Saturday, 10 February 2018 02:16 (six months ago) Permalink
Scrooge mcduck
― papa poutine (∞), Saturday, 10 February 2018 04:00 (six months ago) Permalink
I had a cat named Marquis for 18 years, til I had to put him down. He'd had two strokes and had gone completely blind. I cried like a baby. And though I spelled his name ala de Sade, it was really a nod to Mark E. Smith. Another cat lover. Anyway, always thought that was a good name.
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Saturday, 10 February 2018 10:01 (six months ago) Permalink
If I ever get another cat, it will be named Margaret Dumont or Eleanor Bron.
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 11 February 2018 22:33 (six months ago) Permalink
Alexander Nestafarus Erasemus Swiffyfeathers Nose Emperor
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 20:48 (six months ago) Permalink
our new kitten is Jackson, aka The Microbeast
― Brad C., Tuesday, 13 February 2018 20:55 (six months ago) Permalink