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latenight · 10-11-2001, 08:13 AM

Hey, I just put this page through worldlingo's machine translator. It changes "water cooler" into "cooler toilet".

Purple Fencer · 10-11-2001, 09:16 AM

I, of course, can't understand a single thing you guys are posting, which really makes me feel inferior.

Then again, I speak fluent cat

, so there! It's easy...anything they say means "Pet me," "do the litter box," or (most likely) "Feed me, you lower life form."

Grendel · 10-11-2001, 09:40 AM

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Originally posted by lochinvar:
Grendel: ???
That makes no sense in any French I've heard of, Parisian OR Quebecois...
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I believe she meant:

"j'aurais toujours faim de toi".

I will always be hungry for you / I will always be longing for you.

Thanks for clarifying what I meant. I don't speak French. I got this from a song on the "Ghost in the Machine" CD by The Police. I wrote it phonetically since I didn't have the lyrics in front of me.

Gav · 10-11-2001, 10:37 AM

Ah yes Cat... I'm fully conversant. "I hate you" - claws walls, sleeps on jacket you left out and then urinates on whites!

DamedEscrime · 10-11-2001, 10:43 AM

Gav, perhaps you should pick up after yourself more often.

lochinvar · 10-11-2001, 10:54 AM

Being the meal ticket (not owner, please!) of two cats, I have found that their primary method of communication is leaping on your chest when you least expect it and leaving hair everywhere.

That, and withering looks of contempt for all things un-cat.

HilandDoug · 10-11-2001, 11:17 AM

Purple, you forgot my cat's personal favorites, "Let's play with the mouse," and "Let's play with the feathers," which are two distinct body languages and meows. Max will fetch the mouse and bring it back to me, and will leap high in the air to grab the feathers.

MStaubitz · 10-11-2001, 12:22 PM

Doug, sounds like your cat got you well trained... but then again, my cat does the same to me... Distinct meows for certain situations.. and as the designated feeder and petting-person, I have to react within seconds or endure the wrath of the claws... and the wake-up meows at 5am...

Purple Fencer · 10-11-2001, 12:28 PM

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Originally posted by HilandDoug:
<STRONG>Purple, you forgot my cat's personal favorites, "Let's play with the mouse," and "Let's play with the feathers," which are two distinct body languages and meows. Max will fetch the mouse and bring it back to me, and will leap high in the air to grab the feathers.</STRONG>

Doug, you just brought the biggest smile to my face! Thanks!

One of my teammates came to the house last week to pick up some stuff that had arrived. He went upstairs with me, with 7 12-week old kittens racing after!

Fleche · 10-11-2001, 07:32 PM

Quelle suprise!! Je connais un peu francais! Ma professeuse francaise would be tres content.

okay, so my french sucks. i don't really care, i'm not being tested on it

HilandDoug · 10-12-2001, 01:40 PM

12 kittens?!?!? Now THAT brings a smile to everyone's face!

Zelda · 10-12-2001, 01:43 PM

Doug I think Purple meant 7 kittens that are 12 weeks old... but then again I could be completly and utterly wrong!

Gav · 10-13-2001, 02:35 AM

My whites were in my kit bag. He peed on the top of the bag, it soaked through and my kit stank for about 2 weeks (despite numerous washes). I've had to resort to carrying around a bottle odour removing stuff cos that stench STILL returns occasionally. The cat went to the vet and he said that he was "stressed" and promptly prescribed anti-depressants!

arcon · 10-13-2001, 11:49 PM

Ok, this is obviously not in French but i cant resist with all this talk of cats.

A friend and I observed this on the back of a Dodge Ram the other day.

Cats, the other white meat.
missing your cat? look under my wheel!
Cats! the flatter the better.

And of course one b. sticker said.

Dogs Rule!

Fleche · 10-14-2001, 12:34 AM

Of course dogs rule! I want one of those bumper stickers

Catlady · 10-16-2001, 01:32 AM

I too speak cat. For the most part our conversations go like this:

Cat: I'm starving!

Me: Didn't I just feed you fifteen minutes ago?

Cat: No, you must be mistaken. I haven't eaten for days, no weeks, no months, no make that decades.

Me: No, I'm pretty sure I just fed you (checks bowl) as a matter of fact, there's still some food left.

Cat: Please, I'm starving. I'll drop over dead if I don't get something to eat in the next few seconds.

Me: Eat what's in your dish first.

Cat: Oh, poor me. I'm so soft and furry and my life is so hard.

More argument along these lines, finally the little rascal gets more food. It is of course unheard of that she could eat her dry food, which is actually better for her, unless it's a major emergency. She now disdains the water bowl as well. I now have to run a fresh sink full of cold water for her, which she will not drink until I leave the room even if I was in the bathroom first. Talk about training

On the subject of cats and equipment, I keep my fencing bag closed most of the time, but my friend's cat will crawl into her bag and go to sleep--no lavatorial mishaps thank heavens--and before she comes to the club she has to check to make sure she doesn't have a "stowaway".

Finally, I envy Purple. When people comes over my cat retreats either under the diningroom table, or to the stair landing and gives everyone the evil eye as if to say, "Fine, you're in my house, but you'd better not get comfortable or anything". The poor thing was mortified when my uncle stayed over, in my bedroom. First there was an extra human hanging around, then she wasn't allowed to go in my room to jump up on the bed and look out the window. I'm just glad she behaved though because the reason my uncle stayed with us was to avoid his mother-in-law's cats and I suspect the mother-in-law as well although he didn't say that.

HilandDoug · 10-16-2001, 10:00 AM

Catlady, that's too funny! It seems that is typical cat behavior around the world! I do pity you, though, that your animals aren't more social. Both Max and Rocky greet everyone at the door, and expect to be acknowledged. They are very persistant.

When I come home, Max, who is just over a year old, immediately jumps onto my shoulders, sometimes from the floor in front of me, sometimes from the back of the couch, and Rocky, who is 5 months, flops down so I can rub his belly. I love those guys! I bet everyone else looks at me like this:

Purple Fencer · 10-16-2001, 11:59 AM

No me, Doug. I've been there more times that I care to remember!

Re the sheer numbers of cats I have, keep in mind that I volunteer for a rescue group, so there's ALWAYS a lot of felines in my home...and cat hairs in my mask!

The kittens are absolutely adorable, but they tend to get underfoot a LOT...little stinkers!

DamedEscrime · 10-17-2001, 05:58 AM

Ahem! Perhaps we need a thread for the cat lovers.
Call it Les amis de felines.

[ 10-17-2001: Message edited by: DamedEscrime ]

Azrael · 10-17-2001, 07:00 AM

I keep telling my cats that, when the time comes, they'll look adorably warm as a set of mitten liners.

So far, they've been ignoring me.

Except for sleeping on my freshly-washed laundry and leaping into the laps of all of my guests who don't like cats, they've been...well, okay, I guess. 'Not insufferable' would be a better way of saying it.

We don't talk much, the cats and I. An occaisional clawing of the leg when hungry, an angry shooing off the keyboard every other hour when I'm working, and the rest is mostly tolerant co-existance.