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- From: John.Seboldt@f31.n282.z1.tdkt.kksys.com (John Seboldt)
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- Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
- Subject: What To Name A White Mal
- Message-ID: <721897222.F00001@tdkt.kksys.com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 14:26:00 -0600
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- On 11-10-92, Kenneth Hall wrote to All:
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- The exact quote that you are referring to is know in the musical
- "Cats" based on the poems of T.S. Elliot in "Old Possums Book of
- Practical Cats."
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- "The Naming of Cats"
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- The naming of cats is a difficult matter.
- It isn't just one of your holiday games.
- At first you may think I'm as mad as a Hatter
- when I tell you a cat must have THREE different names:
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- (Break from the poem, memory core failure...)
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- Name 1: Everyday name
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- Name 2: The Name given to the breed
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- Name 3: The name that the cat gives to himself that he keeps to him
- self and will never reveal.
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- Name no. 3... is that the origin for that private name cats have in the
- book "Tailchaser's Song"?
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- [If you haven't read the last-named book, y'all should!]
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- * Freddie 1.2 * "Mao." "Mousie Dong". -- B. Kliban
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- * Origin: Dark Knight's Table (1:282/31)
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