Conference misery::feline_v1

    Karen,
    
    Where did you buy the book.  When I get another cat (female), I
    want to give it a really dignified name.
    
    /Roberta
    

    YES!
    
    I'm hoping to get a kitten in August.  I'd be interested in the
    music topic.  In the past I have had *Mick Jagger* *Billy Idol*
    I helped name a friends *Sid Vicious* and *Johnny Rotten.  I presently
    have Sheena Easton!  So I'd like to keep up the tradition!
    
    Corine

    
    	I got the book at Booksmith in the Pheasant Lane Mall.  It was
    	on sale for $1.99.
                            
    	Here are the A's and B's of the music category.  This one is
    	almost 9 pages long!!
    
    	A Capella (singing w/o intrumental accompaniment)
    	Aida (opera by Verdi)
    	Alan-a-Dale (minstrel follower of Robin Hood)
    	Allargando (Ital., slower and louder)
    	Allegretto (Ital., a little briskly)
    	Allegro (Ital., lively)
    	Almaviva (The Barber of Seville, Rossini)
    	Amadeus
    	Amati (maker of stringed instruments, 1596-1684)
    	Amoroso (Ital., with tenderness)
    	Amphion (son of Zeus, skilled on the lyre)
    	Andante (Ital., moderately slow)
    	Andantino (Ital., slightly faster)
    	Appassionato (Ital., impassioned)
    	Arco (Ital., music direction to resume using bows)
    	Aretha Franklin
    	Arietta (Ital., short song)
    	Arioso (Ital., songlike)	
    	Arpeggio (notes of a chord in rapid succession)
    	ASCAP (Musicians'union)
    
    	Babaloo
    	Balalaika
    	Bamboula (African dance with drums)
    	Bandore (old-time guitarlike instrument)
    	Banjo
    	Bartok
    	Basilio (The Barber of Seville)
    	Bebop
    	Beetoven
    	Belafonte
    	Bel Canto
    	Benedictus (short hymn)
    	Berlioz
    	Bix Beiderbecke
    	Bizet
    	Blossom Dearie
    	Blushington (Utopia, Ltd., Gilbert and Sullivan)
    	Bo Diddley
    	Bolero
    	Bongo
    	Boogie-Woogie
    	Bouzouki (Greek banjolike instrument)
    	Box Skaggs
    	Brio (Ital., vivacity)
    	Brubeck
    	Bubbles (Beverly Sills' nickname)
    	Buddy Holly
    
    	Thats all for today!  
    
    	I just browsed thru the rest looking for artists and here
    	are some that I found :
    
    	Chubby Checker
    	Diva
    	Dylan
    	Elton John
    	Elvis Presley
    	Engelbert Humperdinck
    	Fabian
    	Fats Domino
    	Fleetwood Mac
    	Gershwin
    	Johnny Cash
    	Kris Kristofferson
    	Led Zeppelin
    	Little Richard
    	Lynnard Skynnard
    	Mahalia Jackson
    	Mancini
    	Manilow
    	Meat Loaf
    	Minnie Pearl
    	Molly Malone
    	Otis Redding
    	Pink Floyd
    	Ringo Starr
    	Sinatra
    	Sophie Tucker
    	Springsteen
    	Stevie Wonder
    	Streisand
    	Waylon Jennings
    	Yoko Ono
    	Tony Orlando and Dawn (if you get two kitties).
    
    	Thats it!  I'm done for today.  My fingers hurt.  Anybody
    	wanna help type them in??  
    
    	Karen
    

    Karen,
    
    Can you print some L names for a male cat under the exotic breed
    and Childrens names and Comics category.  And any other categories
    that list dignified names for a male cat (pesonality, physical
    characteristics, etc.).
    
    If this is too long to pubish, can you photocopy them?  I am going
    to try to find this book tomorrow at the local mall bookstore.
    
    Thanks,
    Roberta
                          
    

    Cats tend to name themselves, hence:
    
    W.C. Cat (looks like W.C. Fields)
    Pinney (has a pin head)
    Ashley, aka Neco Ach De Dachi, the Snake (grey, long)
    Lucas (was watching Star Wars when he showed up)
    Big Beef Cheese Bumm (enormous, has 'tragic cat anal odor'
    Meef (aka Continental, aka Moogey Beef, aka Sagan, etc.; this one
          is tough to explain)
    Baby Cakes (very small cat ~ 3.5 pounds)
    Oreo (self-explanatory)
    Puppy (disposition of)
    H.C. (aka Hungry Cat, former stray who never got over having enough
           to eat)
    
    
    In fact, naming cats is half the fun. Of course, this creates the
    problem of having to have "stage names" for them at vet if owner
    is reticent about using real names. Hence, Pinney becomes "Cricket,"
    etc.
    
    
    KBS
    

    The "stage names" idea made me laugh. I have always given my cats
    at least two names. One is their "proper name" for the vets. The
    other is usually a derivative of that but sometimes not.
    
    The current crop-stages names by their common names
    
    Penelope  -Punky, Funky Punky
    Lady      -Ladybird, Ladybee
    Maureen   -Molly
    Fiver     _Fiver (There was no other name for this one-I think it
    may be his true name)
    Prince    -Sketter
                         

    
    
    	Bandit  -  Rabbit, Bunny, and Wabbit
    	T.K.  -  Teekee  (he hates it!).
    
    	Booksmith is also located in the Bedford Mall (NH) and the
    	Mall of NH, in addition to the Pheasant Lane Mall so if any
    	of you want to go get yourselves copies and type in a page
    	or so here and there, great!!!   Meanwhile, I'll try to type
    	in a page from time to time too.
    
    	karen

for a black cat with white boots, tummy, and mustache: Jeeves - after an
English butler...he was sooo proper!

    Thanks Karen!
    
    I love Amadeus!  Now if it fits him I'm all set.  (I can call him
    wolfie for short!!)  :-)
    
    Corine

Cab Calloway
Caccini (composer)
Calando (Ital., gradually diminishing in tone and pace)
Calliope (instrument with steam whistles)
Callithumpian (noisy concert with beating of tin pans and cat calls)
Calypso (improvised song)
Catabank (stolling singer)
Cantata (choral work)
Cantino (treble string of stringed instrument)
Capotasto (device on fretten instrument to raise the pitch)
Capriccio (Ital., lively, whimsical)
Capriccioso (Ital., free, fantastic style)
Captan Macheath (The Threepenney Opera, Kurt Weill)
Carmen (opera by Bizet)
Caruso
Catalani (composer(
Cavantino (short, simple song or melody)
Canerentola (opera, Cinderella, Rossini)
Chaliapin (opera singer)
Chalumeau (clarinet's lowest register)
Chanterelle (E string of the violin)
Chanteuse (Fr., female singer)
Charivari (mock serenade of noise; callithumpian)
Charlie Mingus
Cherubini (composer)
Cherubino (page in The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart)
Chevalier
Chubby Checker
Cio-Cio-San (Madame Butterfly, Puccini)
Ciribiribin (Harry James's theme song)
Citharo (ancient lyrelike instrument)
Clarabella (organ stop that produces sweet tones)
Clarino (early type of trumpet with high register)
Con Affetto (Ital., tenderly, with feeling)
Conway Twitty
Count Danilo (The Merry Widow, Franz Lehar)
Crosby

Da Capo (Ital., from the beginning)
Dandini (La Cenerentola)
Demisemiquaver (32nd note)
Didgeridoo (Australian natives' instrument that makes a wailing sound)
Dithyramb (Greek choral song in honor of Dionysus)
Diva (female opera singer)
D.J.
Dolby (sound system)
Dolly Parton
Don Basilio (music master in Ther Marriage of Figaro)
Don Giovanni (opera by Mozart)
Donizetti (composer)
Don Magnifico (La Cenerentola)
Don Pasquale (opera by Donizetti)
Dooley Wilson
Dr. Bartolo (The Barber of Seville)
Duke Ellington
Dvorak (this one contains accents, send me mail if you care)
Dylan

Eartha Kitt
Elton John
Elvis Presley
Engelbert Humperdinck
Eroica
Escamillo (Carmen)
Euterpe (Greek muse of music and lyric poetry)

Fabian
Fa-La-La
Fats Domino
Fenice (opera house, Venice)
Fiddle
Fedelio (Beetoven)
Fitzbattleaxe (Utopia, Ltd.)
Fleetwood Mac
Fortissimo (Ital., very loud)
Frasquita (Gypsy in Carmen)

Galli-Curci
Gamba (viola and cello combination)
Cershwin
Gianni Schicchi (opera by Puccini)
Glinka (composer)
Glissando (violin tecnique, sliding over the strings)
Grammy (record-industry award)
Guarnerius (violin maker)
Gustav Mahler (composer)

Harmony
Haydn (composer, father of the symphony)
Heifetz (violinist)
Hi-Fi
Hindermith (composer)
Honky-Tonk
Hootenanny
Hurdy-Gurdy (hand organ)

Impresario
Iolanthe (Gilbert and Sullivan)
Itsy-Bitsy Teeny-Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini (hit song of 1960s)

Johnny Cash
Jolson
Jomelli (composer)
Joplin (composer, also singer Janis Joplin)
Josephine Baker
Jubal (inventor of stringed and wood instuments)
Julliard

Katisha (The Mikado, Gilbert and Sullivan)
Katya Kabanova (operal by Janacek)
Kazoo
Kenny Rogers
Khachaturian (composer)
Kirsten Flagstad (opera singer)
Klingsor (magician in Parsifal, Wagner)
Ko-Ko (The Mikado, Gilbert and Sullivan)
Kostelanetz (conductor)
Koussevitzky (conductor)
Kris Kristofferson

    

	L Names :

	Children's Names and Comics

		Lego
		Lex Luther (villian in Superman)
		Little John (Robin Hood)
		Long John Silver (Treasure Island, Stevenson)
		Loony Tunes
		Lord Fauntleroy

	Exotic Breeds 

		Layla (Arabic, dark as night)
		Li Po (Chinese Poet)

	Mythology

		Loki (Scandinavian god of mischief)

	Personality

		Larrikin (Australian slang, hoodlum)
		Lazy Bones
		Lazy Susan
		Lickerish (fond of choice food)
		Lickety-Split
		Lightning
		Lollygag
		Lothario

	Physical Characteristics

		Lilliputian (tiny people in Gulliver's Travels, Swift)
		Lionelle (lionlike)
		Llewellyn (Celtic, lionilke)
		Lollapalooza (beauty)
                Leviathan (giant)
		Li (Chinese, black)
		Licorice 
    

    Thanks, Karen,
    
    Anymore L names to add?  Would appreciate hearing some more (at
    your leisure, of course.  Went to the local bookstore this past
    weekend, but no luck finding the book!
    
    /Roberta
    

    
    Re: .12
    
    Well those were all the L names in those categories.  Name some
    more categories and I'll see what I can do.
    
    Karen

    My sister has two cats named Lucy and Linus. A friend's Persian
    was named Lucius (did I spell that right, Bobbi?) How about Lacey
    for a cat's name?
    
    Linda
    

    
    
    I have had no luck in finding the book, either.
    
    Could you please send me copies of the pages on
    Journalists, Lawyers and Literary Names?
    
    Thanks, Karen!
    
    -Margot
     BUO/E21
    

    Not wanting to be a bore or anything, but isn't this a violation of 
    copyright protection?

    
    Re : .16
    
    I don't know.  But whos gonna tell??  Besides, its not like I am
    making any money off of it.  And what is the difference between
    what I am doing and photo-copying pages out of a book/magazine,
    or recording a movie off HBO?  None, as long as I don't profit,
    right?!
                  
    

    RE: .16 and .17
    
    
    If we want to be technical, it's not an issue of whether you are
    making a profit.  It is an issue of you keeping the publishing company
    from making an additional profit.  By typing in lists of names into
    the computer, technically people can get the list of names from
    you and not go out and buy the book.  Thus, you are decreasing the
    publishing companies profits.
    
    As you say, it's not any different from photocopying pages out of
    a book or recording a movie off HBO -- but those activities are
    mostly illegal too.  Especially taping the movies.  
    
    It really comes down to the old expression though -- "It's only
    illegal once you get caught!"
    
    I'm sure nobody in this file is going to snicker, but let's just
    hope some nasty FBI agents aren't reading this file!
    
    	-Nancy
    
    P.S.  I had a minor in Business Law in college, which is the only
    reason I know this.  I'm not the copyright police!

    >I don't know.  But whos gonna tell??  Besides, its not like I am
    >making any money off of it.  And what is the difference between
    >what I am doing and photo-copying pages out of a book/magazine,
    >or recording a movie off HBO?  None, as long as I don't profit,
    >right?!
     
    Unfortunately, you're likely to find there is no difference, as
    the above mentioned activities are also violations of copyright
    laws. 
    
    Profit isn't the deciding factor.      
    
    Edd
    
    
    

    
    	Well folks, I was already sick of typing in the names anyhow.
    
    	I am going to the mall tonight.  If anybody wants a copy,
    	let me know before 4:45 and I'll pick them up one (provided
    	they are still there).  Then, you can send me the check
    	for a whopping $1.99 and I can send the books, interoffice
    	mail.       
    
    	Karen
    
    	P.S.  Please let me know thru personal mail, not thru the
    	notes file since I can't be reading notes all afternoon.
                                                                

   
    
    			< JUST HAD TO TELL YA >
    
    I recently visited an old friend from highschool and
    smaug came along.
    AND WHAT DO YOU KNOW he's got two cats of his own. Both are also
    named after J.R.R. TOLKIEN characters.
    THEY ARE:
            SCHMOO  a cameo persian
            SMEAGLE pronounced (SMEEGULL) a black mixed breed
              
    So now It seems they want to open a law office and they want to
    call it LAW OFFICES OF SMAUG, SMEAGLE AND SCHMOO.
    
    
    
                    cats, what an imagination!!!
    
    				Joe Lore