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Re: what's your pet's name
« Reply #15 on: January 03, 2006, 08:23:14 PM »
I keep tropical fish, which I don't name because their lives are shorter than dogs or cats (but not as short as some ignorant/uncarring people assume). However, occasionally, I've been force to a name a fish so I generally pick some philosopher or scientistic. Following my own corrupt thinking, only when a person names their pet after a philosopher or scientist can the philosopher or scientist be truely great. Plus the dumber the animal the greater the philospher.
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Re: what's your pet's name
« Reply #16 on: January 03, 2006, 11:13:01 PM »
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Plus the dumber the animal the greater the philospher.



Ahh... that really explains my friend's dog Copernicus.
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Re: what's your pet's name
« Reply #17 on: January 04, 2006, 10:44:01 PM »
I grew up on a dairy and the only cow we ever named was "Spastic." Her momma must have sat on her when she was born, because she had this strange twitch whenever she got excited--which was pretty much every time we bottle-fed her milk, 2x a day.

Spastic would nearly flip backwards (I kid you not) when we came to her pen with a bottle. She would wag her head like a puppy's tail, as though she had no control over it and it would throw her off balance and she'd flip onto the ground. It was positively hilarious.

The down-side is that she only lived to about the age of two, couldn't keep up with the other calves, was a loner.
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Re: what's your pet's name
« Reply #18 on: January 05, 2006, 12:39:39 AM »
I was really enjoying this anecdote about your nutty cow until the sad, sad ending. :'(
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Re: what's your pet's name
« Reply #19 on: January 05, 2006, 10:02:50 AM »
I ate my friend Maggie's pet cow Rosemary.

Jeffe helped

She tasted goooooood.
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Re: what's your pet's name
« Reply #20 on: January 05, 2006, 03:16:00 PM »
I have no problem eating cows. Eating one's pet is a slightly, well, different matter, I should think.
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Re: what's your pet's name
« Reply #21 on: January 05, 2006, 03:57:12 PM »
it wasn't a different matter for Maggie
Maggie looked at us all as if we were primitive savages. Her sister didn't mind joining us though.
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Re: what's your pet's name
« Reply #22 on: January 05, 2006, 05:00:02 PM »
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it wasn't a different matter for Maggie
Maggie looked at us all as if we were primitive savages.

lol. Well, I suppose you've scarred poor, poor Maggie for life. I wonder ... was she the baby of the family and thought of the cow as her pet while the rest of the family had no such kindly illusions? Ah, the fragile illusions of youth....
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Re: what's your pet's name
« Reply #23 on: January 05, 2006, 07:10:10 PM »
Speaking of eating pets...

Me and my sister were in 4-H while in grade school and we raised lambs. One year one of the lambs, whose name was Bart, didn't make weight at the county fair (they have to be about 6 months old and 180 pounds, give or take). Lisa and Maggie were fine, though, and they did OK that year at the sale at the end of the fair.

Bart had to stay home, though, and when he was bigger dad took him to the butcher and we had little Bart chops in the freezer the next day. Being raised on a farm, you get used to stuff like that.
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Re: what's your pet's name
« Reply #24 on: January 07, 2006, 12:46:57 PM »
I have a plastic pink flamingo named Floyd, which has the dual purpose of "Floyd the Flamingo" (amusing alliteration) and "Pink Floyd."
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Re: what's your pet's name
« Reply #25 on: January 07, 2006, 08:18:14 PM »
Well, it's once more time for me to leave UT--and my Devil Dog--behind. I'm gonna miss her. A lot. :(
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