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I grew up with a cat named Mu. Yeah, the Greek letter.

Her predecessor was named Pi "because he was irrational" (or so said my dad when anyone asked).

This composer named a cat Lepton.

Hat tip to

albadger, along with my apologies for reposting this link since it does indeed still discuss the possibility of making that opera.

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My childhood cats were named Spot and Lady MacBeth.

Right now the two I am responsible for naming are Jackie (after Jackie Chan, because she does all her own stunts), and Duchess (found on an airport, then named after the Beechcraft twin-engine aircraft because she too is overweight and underpowered - but pretty).

Names are fun.

But does Suchess also have a V-tail?

That's the Bonanza, but hey, with all that fluff she's got we could hide just about any tail configuration in there!

Your description of Duchess as 'overweight and underpowered, but pretty' made me laugh right out loud.

Well, she IS! :-) Except when she has suddenly gone back into diabetic-mode and I haven't caught it yet and so she drops a bunch of weight.

I always thought that if I ever had cats, I'd name them Spot and Cat :)

Ah, but then you can't do the whole 'out damned Spot' jokes.

But Spot and Cat work very well. Or for a dog and a cat, Puff and Spot, in that order.

Riffing on "cat", I discover that I want to name my motor vehicle "cdr".

As much as the movie affected me, I'm hardpressed to imagine it as a classical opera!

But on the cat-naming lines, Wuorinen's cat reminds me of a favorite line from a favorite movie, This Island Earth (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0047577/), in which Faith Domergue introduces Rex Reason to the laboratory cat thusly:"Oh, that's our lab mascot, Neutron. We call him Neutron because he's always so positive!!!"

Now I *do* want to name an ancient slow-moving arthritic cat Neutrino!

Lepton is a fabulous name for a cat. Then again, so is Pi. Or maybe I'm just a dork.

Neutrino would be fun too, but only for a kitten. Imagine a twenty-two-pound slow-moving arthritic Neutrino. Doesn't work.

Dork is also a fabulous name for a cat.

Imagine a twenty-two-pound slow-moving arthritic Neutrino. Doesn't work.

Oh, I don't know. There's a fair bit to be said for the value of irony.

True, there is that. Like the "Neutron" who is "always so positive!"

OH yeah. Dork is the *perfect* name for a cat -- I'm thinking a male cat of odd coloring, or a cat of very little brain. :)

We had one called Dizzy, short for Disaster. (The only cat I've ever owned who, as best we could ever tell, managed to break his own nose.) Dork would have been a fine alternate name for him!

My best cat names:

I once had a cat who got herself 'in trouble' at five months of age. (I didn't know that was possible -- she actually already had her appointment to get fixed at 6 months. Cats can always surprise you). She gave birth to three beautiful little kittens. Rondo said we could keep *one* of the kittens, but had to give the other two away as soon as they were weaned, so I'd *better* not name the other two.

Ahem. So they were "anonymous" and "generic", the no-name cats. Annie and Genni for short.

That reminds me of a Foxtrot comic strip that someone has posted in the hallway.

And here's a copy that a blogger has conveniently posted!
http://blogs.sun.com/kevin/entry/jason_s_jumble

*schnort* Good one!!

I always wanted to name a cat Astrophe. Haven't had an opportunity yet, but it's a great name for an active, curious kitten!

oniricwolf dubbed my big, fat, slow-moving black-and-white cat Cowt -- a cross between a cow and a cat. Cowt is now one of Val's nicknames.

Rob: [pointing to cats] They're forming a catenary!
Me: [affronted] Three points do NOT define a curve!
Rob: If they're cats, they do.

I had to concede the point.

... and this is worse than a dachsund named "Syntax" because ... ?

Different branch of geekiness?

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Enary could be good too

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