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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,231

    ...she could have named him "Meatloaf" which would have been more accurate.

  • GordigGordig Posts: 10,185

    McGyver said:

    Actually the "don't ask" part was on me... I had been photographing a herd of potatoes as part of a thing I was doing about the migration habits of the Greater North American Potato (Potatous Unitedstatesus)...(not to be confused with the Nicer North American Potato, Potatous Canadiaus) 

    Neither one of them were very nice to the potatoes that were already here.

  • Doc AcmeDoc Acme Posts: 1,153

    barbult said:

    How do cats know how to open door handles? This is worrisome.

    Oh, I once had a house mate that asked me when I toilet trained my Angoran.  Even got a photo.  I was smackgobbed as I hadn't.  She simply did it to prove she could.  IF she wanted to that is.  Never did again of course.

  • pjwhoopie@yandex.compjwhoopie@yandex.com Posts: 793
    edited September 2021

    Interesting observation about cat/animal names.

    Where I am from in the States, most animals (at least of friends and folks I knew) were named after Things/Objects/Adjectives/Verbs or even "plays on words". 

    For Example, A dog with Spots = Spot
    Digger, Rover, a cat with white paws = Mittens, a black cat = Midnight, a white one, snowball... Princess... Duke... etc etc
    When they do get a "People Name", it is usually, Something Like "Max" or named after a TV/Movie Cartoon Character

    But in Europe, and more specifically where I am now (Germany)... they seem to name their animals "People names"....  I've met just as many People named Moritz as I have cats and dogs. Rolf, Wolfgang... Otto... Sabina... Melanie... are all dogs and cats within 100 yards of my house.

    I guess my neighbors have been just as confused at our cats ( Jingle, Mittens, and Snuggles) and our dog, Merlin (a Blue Merle Great Dane) as I am of theirs.

     

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  • stephenschoonstephenschoon Posts: 360

    My cat doesn't need to open doors, she has people for that...

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 5,922

    We had a cat called 'George', which was the same name as our neighbour's lodger. Initially we got strange looks when my wife went out in her nightie and called into the night air in our close packed Victorian street 'George, come on George, it's time to come to bed..'

    We've had cats called 'Fluffy', 'Squeaky' (because he does), 'Rooster' (after he roosted in a pidgeon's nest all day long for months on end), 'Gryff' (short for Gryffindor), 'Little One' (tiny & feral) and my avatar cat's name: 'Teddy Albert Winston', normally known as 'Albert' but as 'Teddy' when he got all snuggly and 'Winston' when he got all haughty on us. First cat, when I was 10/11, was called 'Pudding'. 

    Regards,

    Richard

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,066

    Sorry daveso-confused, but this is officially a cat thread now.

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 5,922
    edited September 2021

    All threads are cat threads in disguise. This one is no-longer disguised.

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  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,066

    So the cat is outta the bag, aye?

  • ColinFrenchColinFrench Posts: 648

    Most of our cats have preferred drinking from the bathroom sink rather than their water dish. In the morning they'll jump up on the vanity and wait for me to pour them some water. After watching this a number of times, one cat figured out that there was a connection between the faucet and getting water. I caught him a few times pawing at the handle trying to get the water to come out.

    Fortunately we didn't have paddle-type faucet handles because he probably would have managed to open those up. Not that I would have minded the cat pouring himself a drink, but the odds are very high that he wouldn't have bothered turning them off again. "Honey, why is the water bill so high this month?"

  • davesodaveso Posts: 7,163
    edited October 2021

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  • FirstBastionFirstBastion Posts: 7,845

    Back to the original topic,  I have a rule to render what I bought, before buying more.  The method seems to work.

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    edited October 2021

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,231
    edited September 2021

    @ davesoconfused...same here.

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  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 5,922
    Whenever I see a nice, shiny new product and a feeling of need comes over me, I go and look at cats being silly on Icanhascheesburger until the feeling goes away. Much cheaper that way.
  • Peter WadePeter Wade Posts: 1,641

    FirstBastion said:

    Back to the original topic,  I have a rule to render what I bought, before buying more.  The method seems to work.

    That sounds like a good rule, I should probably try it.

    I think my buying habits go back to when I was starting out with Poser. I kept thinking I'd like to do some type of scene but find I didn't have the type of clothes, scenery or something to do it. I got into the habit of seeing new things and thinking if I buy that then when I want to do a scene in that sort of setting I'll have the stuff to do it.

    If I did adopt that rule then the amount of time it takes to render anything in Iray on my computer would cut my buying to a trickle.

     

  • N-RArtsN-RArts Posts: 1,523
    edited September 2021

    I know it wasn't intentional, but thanks for converting the thread into a discussion about cats. I'm backing up a dying laptop. I needed a chuckle.

    I will welcome our new cat overlords with open arms. They can't be any worse than humans... Can they?....

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  • davesodaveso Posts: 7,163
    edited October 2021

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,231

    ...Baxter!"

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,066

    daveso-confused said:

    N_R Arts said:

    I know it wasn't intentional, but thanks for converting the thread into a discussion about cats. I'm backing up a dying laptop. I needed a chuckle.

    I will welcome our new cat overlords with open arms. They can't be any worse than humans... Can they?....

    as long as they stop the meow meow meow ads. 


     

    Little known fact about the Meow Mix commercials... those "Meow-Meow" lyrics are actually pretty raunchy when you translate them.

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