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Are we not men?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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The dog was named by animal control (originally wrote pound but not sure if that translates outside America) so he's Louis (pronounced Louie)
First cat was similarly named when brought home from animal control, Sampson it was. That Maine Coon is the only animal I really miss.
Current cats, Anastasia named by the daughter from the cartoon. Ollie, him I don't remember but it had to be one of my boys' doing.
When the current pets shed their mortal coil we will not be replacing them, unless I was to find a Maine Coon kitten.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Black Labradors - Calypso because the wife liked the name and then got shortened to Callie. Titus because I refused to have a dog called Perseus, can you imagine the cringe when you have to recall your dog with "here Percy" at the top of your voice.
I win very few arguments with SWMBO but that is one of them.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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So calling Titus was shortened to "here Titus"?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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I get growled at for calling him "tight arse" - and not by the dog.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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The dogs were Indy ( “We named the dog Indiana!”) and Bailey because he was the color of Irish Cream.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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OriginalGriff wrote: ...So ours is called "Dij" as in "short for Digital" because as a kitten he was indeed digital: on (and doing a Wheel of Death round the room) or off (and you could have pulled his whiskers out without him moving). The "G" became a "J" in the spelling so vets wouldn't think his name was "Dig"...
So if you became the owner of a pet that liked peanut butter you'd call him Gif?
If pigs could fly, just imagine how good their wings would taste!
- Harvey
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Monsieur - Male cat because he was Franchman-level snotty
Angus - Male cat, fat, all black like the cows; great snuggler with me, hated everybody else
Bacchus - Male greyhound, named for the Greek/Roman god of wine and revelry; we chose his name _before_ the adoption folks told us he didn't bark, he only whined
Hera - Female greyhound named for the wife of Zeus, aka Boss Lady; she's the dominant of the two dogs, and loves to tell B what to do
Canada - All-white female cat, looked like an ambulatory snow bank (even in summer)
Guccina - Female black cat. A feminized form of "Gucci", she was named after the fashion designer because she looked so elegant.
Cali - My daughter's female calico cat. I called her "Cali-Whumpus" (alliterating caddy-whumpus) because she always tumbled off furniture.
Treble - My wife's dachshund was originally named "Trouble" when she got him, which she though was bad karma. She renamed him "Treble". It didn't help.
Pet names deserve consideration, and should always come with good stories.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I name mine after tyrants and otherwise failed leaders.
Like Chairman Maow, and Groucho Mugabe.
I got the idea from my friend who named her cats Nixon and Reagan and I thought it was the best thing ever - naming cats after political figures and heads of state so...
Real programmers use butterflies
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I'll let you guess the rule used for naming my chickens based what the results are. It all came about because one of the people who delivered our first ones decided to call one of them 'Ava'.
1st batch
* Ava
* Bertha
* Clarissa
2nd batch (a few years later whilst A, B and C were still with us) we were given some more chickens by someone who could no longer house them. They were called
* Dora
* Edna
* Flora
When we moved to rented accommodation, we had to give away A, B, D, E and F (C had gone to the big coop in the sky). Having moved to a new home, we have at long last got some new ones; so, continuing the naming rule, we now have
3rd batch
* Glenda
* Hilda
* Isla
* Julia
and a few weeks later, a neighbour found a stray, who is now called
* Kira
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I named a cat "Dusty" because as a kitten he disappeared for several hours. When he reappeared he looked like a huge dust bunny with ears and a tail.
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Would the discussion be if his pet is or is not a cat, or if he has or has not a pet?
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Sometimes he has no pet, especially when he is looking for it.
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Now you've really confuse me - I don't know if he's looking for his pet or not looking for his pet.
And what if he were looking for his cat - is that the same as not looking for his pet if his pet is not a cat?
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You mean precisely not?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Well, yes and no. More or less.
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Yes
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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That's real out-of-the-box thinking...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: Would the discussion be if his pet is or is not a cat, or if he has or has not a pet?
Has to be a cat.
Dogs are straightforward. With cats, you never know.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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or whether the cat's his pet, or he's the cat's pet .. .
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Best settled between them, I suppose, with a boxing match ?
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: a boxing match
I see what you did there. Tricksy, you are.
Software Zen: delete this;
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From what I read, Schrodinger believed his 'imaginary cat experiment' showed the absurdity of quantum theory, so he would have probably just named it 'George' (if it was a boy), and been done with it. 
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