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- From: 6500sws@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Susan W. Stockwell)
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- Subject: Re: Cats on TV
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 06:50:42 GMT
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- In article <Bxvt4v.HLt@nic.umass.edu> jsw@titan.ucc.umass.edu (J. Williams) writes:
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- >Would anyone happen to have the words to Data's "Ode to Spot"?
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- >Jeremy
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- Happy to oblige! Email me if you have different punctuation
- ideas, but we are pretty sure we got the verses right.
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- Spoilers for those who haven't seen "Schisms".....
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- Ode to Spot
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- Felis catus: is your taxonomic nomenclature
- An endothermic quadruped, carniverous by nature?
- Your visual, olfactory, and auditory senses
- Contribute to your hunting skills and natural defenses.
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- I find myself intrigued by your subvocal oscillations,
- A singular development of cat communications
- That obviates your basic hedonistic predilection
- For a rythmic stroking of your fur to demonstrate affection.
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- A tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents;
- You would not be so agile if you lacked its counterbalance.
- And when not being utilized to aid in locomotion,
- It often serves to illustrate the state of your emotion.
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- O Spot, the complex levels of behavior you display
- Connote a fairly well-developed cognitive array.
- And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend,
- I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend.
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- --typed in thanks to Kiwi, who sometimes lets me borrow
- her computer. 8^)
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- Twice five syllables, /\_/\
- Plus seven, can't say much -- but... = o o =
- That's haiku for you. -- Douglas Hofstadter /^\
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