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- Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
- Subject: Re: Cats on TV
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.170920.21234@pellns.alleg.edu>
- From: dblackbu@alleg.edu (Dave Blackburn)
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:09:20 GMT
- Sender: news@pellns.alleg.edu
- References: <1992Nov17.000859.29501@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Organization: Allegheny College
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- In article <1992Nov17.000859.29501@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- ehp@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU ("Didi Pancake") writes:
- |In article <1992Nov15.231622.19961@ncar.ucar.edu> vicki@steam.atd.ucar.edu
- (Vicki Holzhauer) writes:
- |>In article <1992Nov15.010637.26866@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- vboynton@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Virginia R Boynton) writes:
- |>>Has anybody else noticed that some TV shows are finally beginning to
- |>>acknowledge the central role of cats in the American family? Not only do
- we
- |>>have Data's Spot on "Star Trek,"
- |>
- |>Potential Spoilers for Star Trek episode "A Fistful of Datas":
- |>
- |>
- |>
- |>Any other Trekkers out there who found it amusing that Data had to
- |>remove Spot from his keyboard not once but twice in this episode? I
- |>guess cats in the future haven't learned any more about reverence for
- |>computers than cats in the present ... :-)
- |
- |Yup, I noticed that. Also loved the fact that the food replicators on
- |several decks wouldn't give anything except cat food!
- |
- |--
- || Didi Pancake | When you are not looking, |
- || ehp@virginia.edu | this sentence is in Klingon. |
- ||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
- || All the usual disclaimers about the origins of these opinions apply. |
-
- *And* the fact that Spot snubbed the cat food he was offered, and that he
- ignored "normal Data"'s request to get down but scooted at the "varmint"
- orders!
- --
-
- * Dave Blackburn dblackbu@alleg.edu flames to self@home.dev.null *
- * Chemistry, Macs, Hypercard, cats, <>< religion, & the Dead *
- * (Anyone else who held these opinions would be as crazy as I am.) *
- * "Sometimes the songs that we hear are just songs of our own" *
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