Re: Cat names


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Christina Websell wrote:

From: "Flippy" <flippy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: A Pair of Cat's Names
Date: 29 April 2007 06:33


One of our rules for pet naming, especially cats, is how we would feel
about standing and yelling that name out our front door at 11 PM, or
walking around the neighborhood calling it.

Jo


I always wondered what the neighbors used to think when I stood at the
back
door at 11 PM yelling "ROMEO!!, Romeo! Where are you??"


For best effect you should have called "Romeo, Romeo, where art thou,
Romeo?" ;-)

Actually it's "wherefore (Elizabethan English for "why") art thou
Romeo" - Juliet's not looking for him, just sad because fate should have
put him in the "enemy" camp.

I know, I altered it because I thought it sounded more suitably
Shakespearian to go with his name ;-)
Being British, I was "Shakespeared to death" at school. I can still
remember off by heart whole tracts of it. E.g. Now fair Hypolleta (sp?)
our nuptial hour draws on apace...ad nauseum.

Tweed


I was incredibly lucky in school. The religious schools I attended didn't
teach fiction at that time. They believed since it was untrue it was "bad"
in some way. They were pretty picky about true stories as well. I got in a
terrible lot of trouble when they caught me reading "The FBI Story" by Teddy
White.

We did get poetry. Lots and lots of poetry. And "suitable" history and
biography.

Certainly no science fiction. We also weren't supposed to go to movies, and
the movies they showed us were usually nature stuff.

But I read constantly, and nearly lived at the library when I wasn't in
school. So I was able to read Shakespeare on my own. No teacher to force
feed it to me and make sure I understood it properly. A lot of the editions
I read did have notations to explain uncommon or archaic words.

I've always thought of Shakespeare as popular fiction. Very good popular
fiction, granted. But not something as stuffy as "literature"

Jo


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