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[bigdamnnerd]

Stolen from hiddenbook:

This is the problem with LJ, we all think we are close, but we know nothing about each other. To rectify this, I want you to ask something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about.

Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don’t know about you.

(I can’t do polls since I am cheap and have a free account; so I can’t do the anonymous question thinger.)

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[hagbard23.livejournal.com]

Claude I didn't get to name myself. He was a girlfriend's cat, and about a year after when she became an ex-girlfriend, she decided she was just too allergic to him, and needed to give him up. Well, my cat at the time, Guildenstern (neé Bobby) was Claude's litter mates, and were both named by the same farm family. The ex-gf had decided not to rename him, and by the time he was "mine", it was definitely too late for a grand renaming.

Newton is a slightly different matter. He was the friendliest cat at the east side PetSmart, but he had the unfortunate name of Rum-Tum-Tugger. Having never seen Cats, I decided he needed to be renamed. But what? Being a geek, I was sure it had to be something that reflected my (and of course his) inner nature. As I was driving him home from the pet store, I noticed something. The only pet carrier I had at the time was a dog-sized one, and RTT was sliding around in it when ever I would stop or accelerate, he would slide around in the back seat. Then it hit me. Forever after he would be Newton, in the hopes that one day he would discover gravity. And, the name has been accurate thus far, as he is a quite clumsy cat, constantly testing his theories about the inner workings of gravity.

Also, Newton is my favourite discontinued PDA by Apple, so it works nicely as a double meaning.

[enzie.livejournal.com]

heh. newton is an excellent cat name.