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You are here: Home / Pet Blogging / Cat Blogging / Monday Morning Open Thread: Name This Kitten!

Monday Morning Open Thread: Name This Kitten!

by Anne Laurie|  August 20, 20184:52 am| 139 Comments

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Something cheerful to start the week, from intrepid kitten rescuer Satby:

People have been asking for pictures of the farmers market foundling. He’s a bundle of energy and doesn’t sit still really, but here’s the best photos I’ve been able to get. Mostly my pictures are of a blurry rear end as he runs somewhere else.

I’m revising his age down to no more than 4 weeks. As soon as he has some shots we’ll see if one of the nursing mothers we still have in the rescue would wet-nurse him, though he’s drinking kitten formula from a bowl.

ETA: Late breaking development: she is a he. Testes drop normally between 3-4 weeks or so, and this little character is right on schedule. So please correct the pronouns in my earlier email ?

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139Comments

  1. 1.

    rikyrah

    August 20, 2018 at 5:13 am

    Good Morning, Everyone ???

  2. 2.

    rikyrah

    August 20, 2018 at 5:14 am

    As for the name…
    Why not Egbert??

  3. 3.

    rikyrah

    August 20, 2018 at 5:15 am

    Satby,
    You are good people??

  4. 4.

    Jay

    August 20, 2018 at 5:24 am

    Squeerreee.

  5. 5.

    Patricia Kayden

    August 20, 2018 at 5:39 am

    Such a cute kitty. Great way to start a work week.

  6. 6.

    Debbie(Aussie)

    August 20, 2018 at 5:40 am

    He is sooooo cute!!! Snowie is a bit too obvious. Blondie? Market, after where you found him?

  7. 7.

    OzarkHillbilly

    August 20, 2018 at 5:41 am

    Blech.

  8. 8.

    monoglot

    August 20, 2018 at 5:41 am

    Dennis

  9. 9.

    Baud

    August 20, 2018 at 5:48 am

    @rikyrah: Good morning.

    Satby: Baud!

  10. 10.

    raven

    August 20, 2018 at 5:52 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: We had a hail storm in July and I really didn’t think much of it until Friday when a neighbor brought up their damage. I went out and looked at our two “beaters” and the both had pockmarks all over them. I took the van in and the dude said, “they’ll never pay for this to be foxed, they’ll just write you a check minus the deductible”. By the time I got home the insurance company emailed me and said they were sending $990. I scheduled a appraisal by the company and home for the same outcome. Then I figured I better check the room and, sure enough, there’s significant damage to one part. This roof is only three years old and I don’t know if they repair sections or have to do it all? Then I looked at our heat pump unit and it looks like it got hit with a 12 gauge. The worst part about the house is that we’re carrying a $2000 deduct.

  11. 11.

    Shell

    August 20, 2018 at 5:54 am

    Dervish

  12. 12.

    arrieve

    August 20, 2018 at 6:00 am

    Those ears just slay me.

    This is my first Monday morning of being retired. I have a doctor’s appointment at the same time I usually go to work, so I expect the weirdness will hit me later.

  13. 13.

    arrieve

    August 20, 2018 at 6:02 am

    @Shell: I second this! My only suggestion was Whirling Dervish, and I decided that was too long for such a little guy. But Dervish is a cute name.

  14. 14.

    Mary G

    August 20, 2018 at 6:03 am

    Ghost!

  15. 15.

    satby

    August 20, 2018 at 6:15 am

    Good morning @rikyrah: and all!

    Himself got the first of his immunizations last night so he will be able to join other kittens in about a week after we know the immunities have kicked in. After three nights we have something of a routine for sleeping so I at least get some ?!

    All the suggestions except Blech have promise!

  16. 16.

    OzarkHillbilly

    August 20, 2018 at 6:16 am

    @raven:

    This roof is only three years old and I don’t know if they repair sections or have to do it all?

    They can repair just part of a roof, especially if it is recent. (do you have asphalt shingles? if so wait for cooler weather to have the repairs done) but the chances are good you have damage to all the roof, just not as significant as in that one section.

    My general philosophy in life is, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” but with a roof it’s, “Don’t wait until it starts leaking.”

  17. 17.

    satby

    August 20, 2018 at 6:18 am

    @arrieve: Congratulations! Enjoy your retirement.

  18. 18.

    satby

    August 20, 2018 at 6:20 am

    @raven: that’s awful. Sorry so much repairing of stuff has been happening lately.

  19. 19.

    satby

    August 20, 2018 at 6:22 am

    @monoglot: for the Menace?

  20. 20.

    OzarkHillbilly

    August 20, 2018 at 6:24 am

    @satby: What’re you talkin’ ’bout? Blech is perfect!

  21. 21.

    NotMax

    August 20, 2018 at 6:27 am

    From the movie Merrily We Live:

    Young teenage daughter Marian : [introducing the two Great Danes] How do you do? I’d like you to meet my dogs. This dog’s name is “Get Off The Rug.” [indicates second dog] His name is “You, Too!”

    ;)

  22. 22.

    Waldo

    August 20, 2018 at 6:34 am

    Kit Cotton

  23. 23.

    satby

    August 20, 2018 at 6:36 am

    @NotMax: this one’s name would have to be “NO!”
    Preferably said in a tone of panicked urgency.

  24. 24.

    Baud

    August 20, 2018 at 6:36 am

    @arrieve: I need to retire.

  25. 25.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    August 20, 2018 at 6:40 am

    @rikyrah:

    Good morning! ☕

    Ugh, I have to get going to take a friend to knee rehab. Seriously, how much can a knee rehab at 7:30 in the morning?

  26. 26.

    HinTN

    August 20, 2018 at 6:46 am

    @Shell:

    Dervish is good. I’m thinking Snowblur.

  27. 27.

    NobodySpecial

    August 20, 2018 at 6:51 am

    Good Morning!

    Nice work, satby! I’m going to have to send in shots of my little rescue. I just got him a month ago; the vet thinks he’s three months along. Was not looking, but glad I found him!

  28. 28.

    donnah

    August 20, 2018 at 6:52 am

    Casper!

  29. 29.

    Jeffro

    August 20, 2018 at 6:52 am

    A completely snow-white kitty and I’m drawing a blank for names, go figure. :)

    In other news, who is this “we”, Josh Marshall? No one here at BJ seems to have a hard time “admitting” it: We Know Trumpov Is Guilty. We’re Having A Hard Time Admitting It.

    …From the very beginning the President has used every power at his disposal to stop investigations into what happened. He tried to end the investigation into Michael Flynn. He demanded loyalty and protection from the head of the FBI. He fired the head of the FBI because of the Russia probe. He told us it was about the Russia probe. He tried to fire Robert Mueller. He tried to bully Jeff Sessions into resigning so it would be easier to neutralize the investigation. He has been at more or less constant war with the FBI and the Intelligence Community. He openly dangles pardons to thwart the investigation. According to a Washington Post article published today, he’s now pushing ahead with revoking the security clearances of various former officials who were tied to the origins of the Russia investigation. He now says it’s about the Russia probe. In ordinary life, such flagrant and on-going efforts to prevent the truth from coming out are a clear sign of guilt. We rightly demand a higher standard before the criminal law because that is about taking away someone’s liberty. That’s not the case here. We’re only talking about taking away or restraining the power we have given him to use on our behalf.

    In Joe Klein’s roman å clef Primary Colors, the Bill Clinton character ‘Jack Stanton’ is forced to submit to a paternity test. It’s negative. He’s not the father. But then it emerges that Stanton submitted someone else’s blood. As the dialog between the characters explains, that doesn’t mean Stanton is the father. The key aide actually thinks he’s probably not. But he switched the blood sample because he wasn’t sure he wasn’t. Which was crystal clear evidence that he had the affair. That’s what mattered.

    Take another analogy. You suspect someone has embezzled money from a company. You ask to see the company’s books. The suspect burns the books. They may have prevented you from learning the details. But they told you all you need to know. They’re guilty.

    Uh huh. Same as I don’t need to see or hear an “n-word tape” to know the president’s* a racist. His actions leave no other possible conclusion. Smart people figured this out a long time ago.

    Trump is guilty. Why there’s such resistance to this reality is an interesting question. My own best guess is that it is too disquieting a reality to grapple with. Someone who has deliberately betrayed his country and who is compromised by and under the thumb of a foreign despot clearly should not be President. But his supporters don’t accept that. And as long as they don’t there’s no path to removing him from power prior to 2020 and maybe even beyond.

    Whoa there Josh…there certainly is a path and it’s called electing a Democratic House (and maybe even Senate?) this fall. Everything changes once the Rs aren’t able to run cover for this criminal traitor. The WHOLE calculus changes quite a bit.

    (also: ‘maybe even beyond’ [2020]? Oh helllll no…)

  30. 30.

    TheMightyTrowel

    August 20, 2018 at 6:57 am

    IN case any of you would like a little political drama Straya-style we’re in the midst of a potential leadership spill, less than 6 months from a general election and now it looks like the (horrifying authoritarian, racist) rw nut job being put forward to take over as PM might not even be legally eligible to be in parliament! Weeeeeee!

    https://www.canberratimes.com.au/politics/federal/leadership-twist-as-report-claims-peter-dutton-could-be-ineligible-to-sit-in-parliament-20180820-p4zyn1.html

  31. 31.

    donnah

    August 20, 2018 at 7:00 am

    Also, too, the Christopher Robin rug did well at the Sauder Village rug show over the weekend. It was voted winner of the People’s Choice in the Original Design category. Thanks to all for your kind comments during the development process!

    https://imgur.com/gallery/KfnbLjP

  32. 32.

    debbie

    August 20, 2018 at 7:04 am

    What a cutie! How about Jackal?

  33. 33.

    debbie

    August 20, 2018 at 7:06 am

    @NotMax:

    I don’t remember the movie, but there was a dog named Dammit.

  34. 34.

    debbie

    August 20, 2018 at 7:07 am

    @donnah:

    Congratulations!

  35. 35.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    August 20, 2018 at 7:08 am

    @donnah: Congrats to you!

  36. 36.

    OzarkHillbilly

    August 20, 2018 at 7:11 am

    @donnah: Congrats.

  37. 37.

    Baud

    August 20, 2018 at 7:13 am

    @donnah: Nice.

  38. 38.

    OzarkHillbilly

    August 20, 2018 at 7:13 am

    @debbie: It was my name growing up.

  39. 39.

    satby

    August 20, 2018 at 7:17 am

    @NobodySpecial: Congratulations on the new addition to the household! Without adopters, rescuers couldn’t rescue for long.

  40. 40.

    Adam K

    August 20, 2018 at 7:18 am

    Midnite!

  41. 41.

    satby

    August 20, 2018 at 7:22 am

    @debbie: “Jackal”. Still an in-joke, but less opaque than “Baud”. If he had been a she though, Baudy would be a no brainer.

  42. 42.

    rikyrah

    August 20, 2018 at 7:22 am

    @arrieve:
    Congratulations ??

  43. 43.

    satby

    August 20, 2018 at 7:22 am

    @donnah: great, congrats!

  44. 44.

    rikyrah

    August 20, 2018 at 7:25 am

    @Jeffro:
    Who is this WE?

    I accepted it during the campaign, Dear.?

  45. 45.

    rikyrah

    August 20, 2018 at 7:27 am

    @Jeffro:
    Republicans won’t accept it because they are the party of TRAITORS ?
    And, the Democrats need to start shouting it from the rooftops.

  46. 46.

    rikyrah

    August 20, 2018 at 7:28 am

    @donnah:
    Absolutely gorgeous. I didn’t check back the last time that I asked, but I will this time.
    Are you going to sell the rug?

  47. 47.

    satby

    August 20, 2018 at 7:29 am

    @rikyrah: INORITE?!

    Oh, and a little birdie (okay, it was FB) tells me today is esteemed commenter O Felix Culpa’s birthday ???, so Happy Birthday to her!

  48. 48.

    Baud

    August 20, 2018 at 7:32 am

    @rikyrah:
    @satby:

    Misogynists still can’t admit that Hillary was right when she warned us in plain English about Trump.

  49. 49.

    Pogonip

    August 20, 2018 at 7:34 am

    @satby: How about “Stop That!”? Or “Get Down From There!” ?

    Egbert’s cute, too.

  50. 50.

    Quinerly

    August 20, 2018 at 7:39 am

    Haven’t read all the comments. May have been mentioned. A Trump speechwriter has been fired.
    https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5b7a3db8e4b0a5b1febc9837/amp

    Nothing surprises me.

    Poco sends his good morning tail wags. We are still at the beach in NC.

    Cute kitty, satby. Poco votes for Dervish for his new name.

  51. 51.

    debbie

    August 20, 2018 at 7:39 am

    @Baud:

    Plenty of Manhattanites were saying the same thing, but they were quickly dismissed. Don’t forget he got only 4% of the vote there.

  52. 52.

    RedDirtGirl

    August 20, 2018 at 7:40 am

    @arrieve: Wow. That’s no small thing. Enjoy the weirdness.

  53. 53.

    donnah

    August 20, 2018 at 7:42 am

    @rikyrah:

    Thanks, Rikyrah!
    I’m going to donate the rug to our downtown library in my dad’s name. He was the one who introduced me to the library and Winnie the Pooh. The library was fully renovated last year and I would love this rug to be in their Children’s section.

  54. 54.

    Quinerly

    August 20, 2018 at 7:42 am

    Big piece up at Rolling Stone on McGahn and the judiciary:
    https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trumps-judicial-takeover-711200/

  55. 55.

    MazeDancer

    August 20, 2018 at 7:43 am

    @arrieve: Congratulationons!

    @raven: Oh, no! So sorry

    @satby:
    Chase, as in Margaret Chase Smith.
    Bader, For the B in RBG

  56. 56.

    Bex

    August 20, 2018 at 7:43 am

    I mentioned this on an old thread, but if you didn’t see it, I suggested Laptop because he seems to have lap potential.

  57. 57.

    RedDirtGirl

    August 20, 2018 at 7:44 am

    @donnah: Well done!

  58. 58.

    RedDirtGirl

    August 20, 2018 at 7:48 am

    @Quinerly: Well, I’m surprised this didn’t get him promoted to head speechwriter!

  59. 59.

    OzarkHillbilly

    August 20, 2018 at 7:50 am

    @Quinerly: I’m surprised. I thought being a white supremacist was a requirement for joining this admin.

  60. 60.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    August 20, 2018 at 7:53 am

    The other evening, we were with some other people and a guy who’s at least 10 years older than I am was grousing about schools. He said the best thing would be for kids to stay home and be home schooled. So obviously there’s a whole bunch of nonsense crammed into that notion, but I found that afterwards what really annoyed me was his assumption that someone who was not him (ie, his wife) was going to stop whatever else she was doing and stay home and teach the kiddies.

    And I realized that I’d met a number of nice women in that age range who joked about girls who left college without an engagement ring were panicked, etc. None of them had worked more than a year or two before their kids came. After that, they followed their high-earning husbands. I don’t know any woman in my age group who did that. They often stayed home for a few years when the kids were small, but then they went back to work. As you look at younger and younger women, the length of the time they’re out of the job shortens.

    Obviously this is partly a question of need, so maybe I just don’t hang around with the right people. So is this still a thing among women in high income households? Do they still not have careers of their own?

  61. 61.

    Quinerly

    August 20, 2018 at 7:55 am

    @RedDirtGirl: @OzarkHillbilly: Ha!

  62. 62.

    SFAW

    August 20, 2018 at 7:56 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    It was my name growing up.

    “Was”? “Growing up”?

    Who the fuck are you, and what have you done with Ozark, dammit?

  63. 63.

    OzarkHillbilly

    August 20, 2018 at 7:57 am

    Word of the day: overegg– verb (tr) to exaggerate (a feature of something) to the point of unreasonableness

    as in, “Today’s Republican party can’t help overegging everything.”

  64. 64.

    satby

    August 20, 2018 at 8:00 am

    @Bex: ?

    Lots of good options. I need to keep a list for other foundlings we get.

  65. 65.

    Quinerly

    August 20, 2018 at 8:00 am

    Charles Blow piece up. I so enjoy reading him.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/19/opinion/nixon-clinton-trump.html

  66. 66.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    August 20, 2018 at 8:01 am

    @donnah:

    Congratulations!

  67. 67.

    SFAW

    August 20, 2018 at 8:02 am

    @donnah:

    Wow! That’s beautiful. Thanks for posting the pic!

  68. 68.

    OzarkHillbilly

    August 20, 2018 at 8:03 am

    @SFAW: I was once a grown up. It sucked. I have a new name now: “Fuck You Shithead.”

  69. 69.

    rikyrah

    August 20, 2018 at 8:05 am

    @Quinerly:
    Morning to Poco and the tribe ? ?

  70. 70.

    rikyrah

    August 20, 2018 at 8:06 am

    Why the Queen of Soul was paid upfront

    https://amp.thisisinsider.com/aretha-franklin-net-worth-demanded-to-be-paid-in-cash-2018-8

  71. 71.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    August 20, 2018 at 8:06 am

    @Quinerly:

    Isn’t “White House speechwriter” an oxymoron these days?

  72. 72.

    satby

    August 20, 2018 at 8:07 am

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: I can’t day I know that many high income younger people, but if the ones I do most of the women go back to work after having kids (or never left). And this area is awash with home schoolers since the online K-12 company moved in (and the number of fallen away Old Order Amish and Mennonites increase) and even the home schooling moms have to work.

  73. 73.

    raven

    August 20, 2018 at 8:07 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: Yea, asphalt and it’s just three years old. I sent the claim in so I don’t know if I’ll get to decide if and when.

  74. 74.

    ixnay

    August 20, 2018 at 8:13 am

    @donnah: Every time I see this, there seems to be something in my eyes.

  75. 75.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    August 20, 2018 at 8:15 am

    @satby: Maybe it was just that 50s generation that believed in that housewife role for women. I do know that one big difference between that generation and mine was the arrival of the pill, which gave women a whole lot more control over their lives. Maybe that changed the way they thought of things too. And then, as your answer suggests, it became harder and harder for a household to function with only one income.

  76. 76.

    Tazj

    August 20, 2018 at 8:16 am

    What a sweet little kitty. You do good work Satby. Thanks for the pictures.

  77. 77.

    satby

    August 20, 2018 at 8:16 am

    @satby: my (animal hair filled) kingdom for edit in mobile.

    Yeah, I know I can switch to desktop for edit, intrusive formatting, and 4x the ads. Nope, thanks.

  78. 78.

    ascap_scab

    August 20, 2018 at 8:19 am

    Pinky is the name you’re looking for.

  79. 79.

    Quinerly

    August 20, 2018 at 8:21 am

    @rikyrah: Tail wags back at you.

  80. 80.

    PaulWartenberg

    August 20, 2018 at 8:40 am

    Jon Snow, of House Stark

  81. 81.

    Amir Khalid

    August 20, 2018 at 8:42 am

    @donnah:
    I second Casper.

  82. 82.

    Elizabelle

    August 20, 2018 at 8:50 am

    @Amir Khalid: Third for Casper.

    Good morning, jackals.

  83. 83.

    pamelabrown53

    August 20, 2018 at 8:53 am

    @Elizabelle: Fourth for Casper!

  84. 84.

    O. Felix Culpa

    August 20, 2018 at 9:00 am

    @satby: @donnah: @arrieve: My secret is out! I grow old(er). Thank you for the good wishes. Congrats to arrieve for retirement day #1 and donnah for the masterpiece of a rug.

    Cute kittie is cute. I like Dervish, with Jackal as a close second. Ix-nay on Blech.

  85. 85.

    rikyrah

    August 20, 2018 at 9:03 am

    @donnah:

    it will be a wonderful addition for the library.

  86. 86.

    rikyrah

    August 20, 2018 at 9:04 am

    @O. Felix Culpa:

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY :) :)

  87. 87.

    Haroldo

    August 20, 2018 at 9:08 am

    @arrieve: I am a couple of months into retirement. I still find it weird but am starting to enjoy it.

    Good luck!

  88. 88.

    debit

    August 20, 2018 at 9:09 am

    @ascap_scab: I love Pinky!

    I would also put forth Lincoln, for that patch of copper on his head.

  89. 89.

    rikyrah

    August 20, 2018 at 9:09 am

    @Quinerly:

    But, everytime we brought up the Courts in 2016, we were told that we were so ‘naive’, and didn’t ‘ get it’.

  90. 90.

    Quinerly

    August 20, 2018 at 9:11 am

    @rikyrah: yep. I wish I was had taken screen shots of all the times the Bernie Bern Outs told me that on my FB.

  91. 91.

    Quinerly

    August 20, 2018 at 9:14 am

    @Quinerly: “had taken screen shots”
    Can’t edit on phone on this site. Site is also back to not saving my name and email.

  92. 92.

    O. Felix Culpa

    August 20, 2018 at 9:14 am

    @rikyrah: Thank you! I’m hoping to get back to Chicago at some point (after November elections, which have me crazy busy right now). Maybe we can arrange a meet-up with you, satby, Ms. Winsor, and other local jackals.

  93. 93.

    Heidi Mom

    August 20, 2018 at 9:14 am

    @donnah: Congratulations! A well-deserved honor.

  94. 94.

    Aleta

    August 20, 2018 at 9:18 am

    Prospero / Pero

    Prospurro

    Gohan

    @O. Felix Culpa:
    Happy birthday!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QSFFgmmiCA

  95. 95.

    Aleta

    August 20, 2018 at 9:20 am

    @donnah:
    Congratulations. It couldn’t happen to a nicer rug.

  96. 96.

    Gravenstone

    August 20, 2018 at 9:21 am

    @donnah: That is amazing work! I’d seen a couple of your earlier ‘in progress’ photos but didn’t appreciate the scale of the item.

    Also amusing to me, my step-aunt retired from Sauders, so I know Sauder Village fairly well. Smallish world.

  97. 97.

    O. Felix Culpa

    August 20, 2018 at 9:23 am

    @Aleta: Purrfect song – thank you!

  98. 98.

    Gravenstone

    August 20, 2018 at 9:26 am

    @debit: Calls for the addition of a cohort named ‘Brain’, though.

  99. 99.

    Kathleen

    August 20, 2018 at 9:30 am

    @donnah: Congratulations, Donnah!

  100. 100.

    schrodingers_cat

    August 20, 2018 at 9:30 am

    Do I detect the slightest hint of orange markings on his head? How about Tunch jr.

  101. 101.

    MagdaInBlack

    August 20, 2018 at 9:32 am

    Sort of to Ms Winsors question:
    School is back in session and my route takes me thru the Mega Mcmansions of South Barrington, IL where I see kids waiting for the bus……….and who doesn’t have fond memories of waiting for the school bus in Moms Mercedes/Porsche/BMW/Tesla/Audi SUV ?

    It is correct that many of them do not work.

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    jim

    August 20, 2018 at 9:40 am

    Hey, transgender is all the rage in politics right now. Why not kitties? :-)

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    Elizabelle

    August 20, 2018 at 9:43 am

    Pretty sure Cole will cover this later today.

    Ron Fournier is back, in the WaPost, as president of a PR firm writing in support of its client, Unite America. Which, of course, appeals for us to vote for independents. None of those nasty political parties, like Democrats, who might actually hold Trump and company to account.

    What a fucking hack. The only thing honest about him is now he identifies himself as a PR person. He always was, even as a “journalist.” WaPost commenters see clear through him and “Unite America.” Fuck Fournier and the reindeer or unicorn he rode in on.

    Not gonna link, but article is “November 6 could be independents’ day.”

  104. 104.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    August 20, 2018 at 9:43 am

    @MagdaInBlack: I don’t feel right judging someone else’s life choices. At least, I try not to. I think what annoyed me was this guy’s assumption that his wife was at his disposal for any kind of chore.

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    schrodingers_cat

    August 20, 2018 at 9:46 am

    @Elizabelle: I saw that. He was always a Republican PR hack.

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    MagdaInBlack

    August 20, 2018 at 9:46 am

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:
    One of my major annoyances, and Im afraid youll run in to quite a bit of that.
    I do not care how people chose to live their lives, so long as they do not try to impose their choices on me.

  107. 107.

    J R in WV

    August 20, 2018 at 9:50 am

    @arrieve:

    I retired at the end of the calender year, which is also just a few days after my birthday. Small lunch at work with some pleasant gifts – I even had a beer at lunch, though there was technically a rule against drinking while at work. What were they gonna do to me?

    I really liked my job, figuring out why carefully designed systems systems suddenly had bad data — usually because an experienced user jammed crap into it at the request of a senior staffer who knew better. Lots of edits, security tracked who entered or changed each item of data, so we knew who to ask about it.

    But I also really like retirement, wife was already done with work and wanted company, we have traveled a little. Now a big day is going to the shops and grocery, fresh seafood at Joe’s Fish Shop, Wine and Cheese shop, farmer’s market for fresh vegges this time of year. fresh bread at the bakery, then Krogers for everything else.

    Welcome to retirement, Arrieve! Enjoy!!

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    OzarkHillbilly

    August 20, 2018 at 9:52 am

    @Elizabelle: I notice he doesn’t say what year.

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    Dog Mom

    August 20, 2018 at 9:53 am

    @satby: Going for the positive, how about Angel? He does have a little smudge of a halo on his head, right? Hopefully a name to grow into. . .

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    Immanentize

    August 20, 2018 at 9:59 am

    Hi all,

    Late, I know…. But, as fine as name as is Dervish, actual Dervishee wear all black, not white?

    I have been saving the name, Mr. Fiesty for my next cat, but I will give it to you….

    Previous cat names in my house:
    Raymundo Bocanegra (big orange street rescue)
    Jean Loiuis (black cat, smartest cat I ever knew)
    Maria Theresa and Franz Josef (brother and sister white cats). And now:
    Toasty (indispensable grief counselor)

  111. 111.

    J R in WV

    August 20, 2018 at 10:05 am

    And Dervish for the kitty, who is SO SO cute. It’s been 11 or 12 years since our grouchy cats were kittens. They were so fun! no more, tho.

  112. 112.

    Domestic short hair tabby (fka vheidi)

    August 20, 2018 at 10:06 am

    @donnah: congrats, it is very lovely

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    SFAW

    August 20, 2018 at 10:11 am

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    I have a new name now: “Fuck You Shithead.”

    Wow, talk about coincidences — mine too!

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    schrodingers_cat

    August 20, 2018 at 10:12 am

    @donnah: Congratulations, it is beautiful.

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    Elizabelle

    August 20, 2018 at 10:13 am

    @schrodingers_cat:
    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Betty Cracker takes on unicorn Ron. New thread on Fourniercation. Take it away, Betty.

  116. 116.

    SFAW

    August 20, 2018 at 10:18 am

    satby –

    I was thinking of something like “Blackie” or “Charcoal” or “Ebony.” And then when people make their inevitable “but it’s WHITE” comments, you just respond “Really? I’m colorblind, I didn’t realize” or some such.

    Beautiful kitty, by the way

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    afanasia

    August 20, 2018 at 10:24 am

    Bjorn. A snowy, northern name.

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    Just One More Canuck

    August 20, 2018 at 10:26 am

    @schrodingers_cat: the markings may fade. When Elsa the wonder nut was a kitten, she had some black strands on her head. Over time (she’s now 4), she became pure white.

    The people that fostered her and her siblings named her Elsa. Even though my daughter was nine, she hadn’t been a huge Frozen fan, but between her, myself and my wife, we decided that the name suited her

    I like Dervish

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    NeenerNeener

    August 20, 2018 at 10:32 am

    My first thought was Tunch when I saw the orange spot between his ears, but when I saw the “Jon Snow” suggestion nothing else seems right now.

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    Mnemosyne

    August 20, 2018 at 10:53 am

    @satby:

    Our cat Charlotte has learned how to say “No!” back to us, because we’ve said it to her so often. ?

    She’s so talkative and so creative with her vocalizations that we’re pretty sure she has a good chunk of Siamese or Oriental in her. She has the body shape, too, just not the coloring.

  121. 121.

    Aardvark Cheeselog

    August 20, 2018 at 10:55 am

    Bai Hao. Obviously.

  122. 122.

    japa21

    August 20, 2018 at 11:13 am

    Late with my submission (nothing new with me). Char-lie. Has to have the hyphen. This is in keeping with the current administration. Char is short for charcoal which is obviously a lie.

  123. 123.

    Nashville_fan

    August 20, 2018 at 11:27 am

    I wanna name the kitty . . . how about St. Nick? lol

    Dandelion?

    Smooches?

  124. 124.

    satby

    August 20, 2018 at 11:31 am

    So far great suggestions, thanks all! I think sentiment falls pretty evenly between Dervish and Casper, with variations on snow
    counterintuitive black evoking names (yes, he has a blaze of orange between his ears). Plus lots of wonderful one off suggestions. We’re always looking for names for our rescues, so even if we don’t use yours here, we probably will later, because our creative naming juices are drying out. And I liked so many of the suggestions!
    Based on behavior, Dervish is pretty appropriate.

    I think for the duration until he’s adopted, we’re going to call him Dervish Casper Tunch, the first. Because it amuses me to have long names to call my animals when I want to sound stern. And that name is at least several pixels longer than he is.

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    donnah

    August 20, 2018 at 11:38 am

    Thanks to all of your for the kind comments and congratulations on Christopher Robin and Pooh! You motivate me to do more!

  126. 126.

    schrodingers_cat

    August 20, 2018 at 11:40 am

    Dervishes wearing white, singing and dancing, from Jodha Akbar.

    Khwaja mere Khwaja , music composed by and sung by A. R. Rahman.

  127. 127.

    debit

    August 20, 2018 at 11:43 am

    @satby: I like it! I came back to say that based on that first picture the name Barnaby popped in my head, but his current title is awesome.

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    Damned at Random

    August 20, 2018 at 12:00 pm

    I like Casper and Jon Snow.

    My suggestions – maybe just for the foundling list are Boo, Flash, Sugar and Dickens.

  129. 129.

    Damned at Random

    August 20, 2018 at 12:17 pm

    Edelweiss, Mohawk (because that’s what the blond streak reminds me of), Copperhead, Jester, Mica, and Ala-bastard

  130. 130.

    imonlylurking

    August 20, 2018 at 12:18 pm

    Mogget! I’ve always wanted a white cat named Mogget.

  131. 131.

    scuffletuffle

    August 20, 2018 at 12:28 pm

    Adorable kitten is adorable…how about Puck?

  132. 132.

    Uncle Cosmo

    August 20, 2018 at 1:08 pm

    @Jeffro: I believe Josh is wrong. Twitler gets tacit (or open) encouragement from that part of the country that see him doing what they want – the oligarchs & their toadies, who want to further concentrate economic power in their hands until the neofeudal society is irreversible; and the Albino (ETA: better – Redneck) Resentariat of lower-caste [sic] whites who are OK with being screwed by the oligarchy so long as Those People (& their race-traitor librul enablers), who in their warped worldview have been hoovering up the crumbs left behind by the oligarchs that were meant for “good white folk”, are getting screwed even harder.

    These Volk (um, ‘scuse me, “folks”) really don’t give a shit what Twitler has done, or is doing, or will do, so long as he keeps doing what they want done. Obstruction, money-laundering, perjury, treason – it’s all just technicalities. ‘Cuz y’see, them eeebil non-white non-English-speaking non-Y-chromosomed race/language/gender-traitors don’t really give a shit about the rule of law, it’s all about using legal technicalities to obstruct Agolf’s dong that work. Which is exactly what they’d do (& have done) to us. (Yes, kids, it’s always projection with these mofos.)

    /rant

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    sukabi

    August 20, 2018 at 2:06 pm

    It it’s not already been suggested how about Blizzard for kitty name..

  134. 134.

    arrieve

    August 20, 2018 at 2:49 pm

    @J R in WV: Thanks all for the well wishes. I’m actually leaving the country for a month on Thursday so I don’t expect the real weirdness to settle in until this winter when I’m home a lot more.

  135. 135.

    Mo MacArbie

    August 20, 2018 at 2:53 pm

    How about Tape? You found the whitey, Tape.

  136. 136.

    Mel

    August 20, 2018 at 3:37 pm

    How about “Nieve”? “Snow”, in Spanish.

  137. 137.

    Wallis Lane

    August 20, 2018 at 4:41 pm

    How about “Flurry”?

  138. 138.

    tokyokie

    August 20, 2018 at 6:20 pm

    Late to the thread (Hey, I was driving!), but the splotch of orange between his ears and his blue eyes make me suspect that he’s a flame-point Siamese. If so, I’d name him after somebody with red hair and blue eyes who tended to be outspoken and something of a troublemaker. So why not Hamilton?

  139. 139.

    Dana

    August 20, 2018 at 8:12 pm

    Thraknar the Kitbarian, 2nd of his name

    Our beloved kitty, Thraknar the Kitbarian, Lord of the North, bringer of Death, Vet’s Bane (yes, that is his whole name), passed away in June. He, like this one, was a white-furred kitty with cream markings and blue eyes. Like this one, he was a rescue (his momma died after giving birth; Thraky was the runt). He found a loving home with my husband and lived a long, full life (18 years). He was not a nice kitty, but he was a good kitty.

    I don’t have any digital kitten pics, but I do have some of him as an adult on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/thraknarthekitbarian/

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