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Cats with opposeable thumbs - the end for us?

 
 
Setanta
 
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Reply Mon 13 Jun, 2005 06:02 pm
BWING 'EM ON . . . not as tasty as gwilled wabbit, but vewy fine indeed . . .
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DrewDad
 
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Reply Mon 13 Jun, 2005 07:24 pm
Niven has done the "cats with opposable thumbs" thing to death....

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0743436199.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
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littlek
 
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Reply Mon 13 Jun, 2005 07:25 pm
Actually, it was other authors who ran with Niven's kzinti characters.
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DrewDad
 
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Reply Mon 13 Jun, 2005 07:40 pm
True. And some of them were pretty good yarns. I'm just saying the speculation has been done.
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roger
 
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Reply Mon 13 Jun, 2005 07:42 pm
Ah, give em a ball of string and they forget all about everything else.
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DrewDad
 
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Reply Mon 13 Jun, 2005 07:47 pm
dlowan wrote:
Can someone kick Drew Dad off the thread?

I don't have opposeable thumbs either - and I need all my paws fpr typing.....


Did you think "the Hare" referred to you? I figgered you'd be familiar with the Hare Psychopathy Checklist.

Narcisistic Wabbit.
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DrewDad
 
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Reply Tue 14 Jun, 2005 07:05 am
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8122-826557_1,00.html

Quote:
Dangerrrr: cats could alter your personality
Jonathan Leake, Science Editor

THEY may look like lovable pets but Britain's estimated 9m domestic cats are being blamed by scientists for infecting up to half the population with a parasite that can alter people's personalities.

The startling figures emerge from studies into toxoplasma gondii, a parasite carried by almost all the country's feline population. They show that half of Britain's human population carry the parasite in their brains, and that infected people may undergo slow but crucial changes in their behaviour.

Infected men, suggests one new study, tend to become more aggressive, scruffy, antisocial and are less attractive. Women, on the other hand, appear to exhibit the "sex kitten" effect, becoming less trustworthy, more desirable, fun- loving and possibly more promiscuous.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Tue 14 Jun, 2005 09:21 am
Sounds like a science report from the United Dog Foundation...
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BorisKitten
 
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Reply Tue 14 Jun, 2005 09:57 am
My theory: Some folk on A2K really are cats, ones who have already mastered typing.

So who's a secret cat here?
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Eva
 
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Reply Tue 14 Jun, 2005 10:31 am
mmmmrrrrroowwww...I mean, not me! Wink
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patiodog
 
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Reply Tue 14 Jun, 2005 11:57 am
BorisKitten wrote:
My theory: Some folk on A2K really are cats, ones who have already mastered typing.

So who's a secret cat here?


Damn. I've been found out.
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Setanta
 
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Reply Tue 14 Jun, 2005 04:19 pm
You ain't no cat, dummy . . . you's a dog . . . cats is the ones we chase . . . can't you 'memember nothin' ? ! ? ! ?
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dlowan
 
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Reply Tue 14 Jun, 2005 04:28 pm
DrewDad wrote:
dlowan wrote:
Can someone kick Drew Dad off the thread?

I don't have opposeable thumbs either - and I need all my paws fpr typing.....


Did you think "the Hare" referred to you? I figgered you'd be familiar with the Hare Psychopathy Checklist.

Narcisistic Wabbit.


Hare?

You was being mean about cats!!!!
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Mr Stillwater
 
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Reply Wed 15 Jun, 2005 04:03 am
I have already warned you about the Wabbit With The Big-Pointy Teeth - you are free to dig your own damn graves..........
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Mr Stillwater
 
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Reply Wed 15 Jun, 2005 04:06 am
Set, I feel free to speak as one of your loved ones. Please trim your beard - it looks a lot like a small dog, you could be refused service at restaurants and the like....
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Setanta
 
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Reply Wed 15 Jun, 2005 05:40 am
I guess i've been a slacker here of late, Mr. Ponquility . . .
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DrewDad
 
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Reply Wed 15 Jun, 2005 07:01 am
dlowan wrote:
DrewDad wrote:
dlowan wrote:
Can someone kick Drew Dad off the thread?

I don't have opposeable thumbs either - and I need all my paws fpr typing.....


Did you think "the Hare" referred to you? I figgered you'd be familiar with the Hare Psychopathy Checklist.

Narcisistic Wabbit.


Hare?

You was being mean about cats!!!!

I guess the truth hurts?




Cat theory #1: The amount of catchief (mischief performed by cats; ankle biting, moth chasing, plate licking, etc.) rises as the square of the number of cats in a household. Three cats cause nine times as much catchief as a single cat.
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