Cat names and Spam. And a WTF.

Last night I was patting my cat and remembering a cat I used to know called Mandu (Cat/Kath-mandu, geddit?). This turned into a long conversation with my mum about good pun-names for cats.  We decided that Zinzan would probably be called Atonic if we’d named him with a pun.  Now my pet fantasy is to have two cats, a boy called Atonic and a girl called Atomic (as in Kitten, like the pop group).  We also came up with Egory, Astrophe, Alyst, and Alogue (prn A-log, like A-Rod ).  I tried Hedral (for the religious cat) but mum said the ‘cath’ ones didn’t count.

Then, because I am a nerd, I got the dictionary out and found some more:

Aract – if your cat likes to pee everywhere, or if he/she is blind.

Abasis – if he likes to jump on you from a great height.

Aclysm – if she’s forever wreaking havoc on your furniture.

Alectic – if you’re a poetry nerd and/or your cat has three legs.

Afalque – if your cat is a zombie.

Acomb – if she confuses you.

Apult – if she likes to hide then leap out at you.

Amaran – if he likes the water.

Aplexy – if he doesn’t move much

Alepsy – if she’s a bit schizo.

Arrh – if she’s a bit snotty.

Aplasm – if she makes you feel better.

Echism – if he sleeps on your Bible.

Cher – if she likes baseball.

Erwaul – if he’s noisy.

Erpillar – if she eats bugs (random fact: caterpillar actually comes from the Old Northern French word catepelose, meaning ‘hairy cat’.)

Echol – if you’re a chem nerd.

Tle – if your cat looks like this

What pun-name would suit your cat?  Pick one of mine or find your own.

While I was looking through the dictionary, I came across the following as part of a definition:

‘In their native regions the nuts are strung together and burned as candles.’

Imaginary chocolate fish if you can tell me what word they were defining!  (Hint: it’s not as scary as it sounds )

Also, I got an awesome spam comment on my last week’s Music Monday from someone called Dr Brian:

‘Thanks for a great acticle, I will pass this on to my patients…’

I wish my doctor would send me links to awesome web videos.

This next bit was not part of the original post, but came across it on stuff this morning:  Vanity Fair readers have voted on who they think is the most handsome man, and the winner took it out with 51% of the vote.  Can you guess who it was?

If you guessed Brad Pitt, you are wrong.

If you guessed Daniel Craig, you are wrong.

If you guessed Johnny Depp, you are wrong.

If you guessed George Clooney, you are wrong.

If you guessed Jack Nicholson, you are wrong (and also a bit weird).

‘Twas Robert Pattinson. That’s right, the scruffy, pasty, permanently-bewildered-looking, stalker vampire from Twilight.  Now, if this was a poll done by, say Girlfriend magazine, or even Cosmo at a stretch, I would understand.  But this is Vanity Fair.  I thought it was supposed to be read by grown-ups.

Johnny Depp only got 7% of the vote.

I feel betrayed, somehow.  I will never read Vanity Fair again.  (not that I usually do! ).

Admittedly theirs was not the best picture of him, but come on.  7%?!

Although the readers did vote Angelina Jolie in for the women, so apparently they’re not completely blind.

Here’s a line-up of the options they had.

And here’s the women one. Based on those pictures, I would have picked Angelina or Cate Blanchett.  Scarlett Johanssen’s one is just freakin scary!

In your opinion, who should have won?