h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I have foresworn anything wireless or that runs on batteries if there is a wired version. I inherited what can only be described as a small room filled floor to ceiling with out-of-date wireless pc peripherals from my dad and don't want to go down the same route. No disrespect to the old man though, he was the only person I've ever met who had the gall to claim to have invented solvent abuse.

Cool to have a special cat! My cat just has an attitude problem, like all other cats, although I think she has what may be a burgeoning moss fetish. She sure does like moss. Hence the musing about a new cat, to get her a friend to play with and to keep her off the moss.

Oh, our cat also has an attitude problem. He's learned that standing in the bathroom doorway and yowling into the bathroom in the middle of the night will wake everyone in the house rather quickly.

Debbie Magee (the cat) doesn't go in for night time noises she's more of a morning vomit kind of girl.

Ah, I see. We do sometimes get vomit. Occasionally while we're awake, and sometimes in the middle of the night.

Other night time noises include the ceramic food bowl being tipped over (because it's empty), rolling various toys back and forth past the bedroom door, and falling out of bed.

Hmmm. Lili-the-cat is missing, but my wardrobe has a tail...

You named your cat Debbie McGee!?

I had a cat named Smokey when I was a kid who used to disappear a lot- and the dining room china hutch would grow a tail.

This cat doesn't go under furniture much, except for the bathtub.

Sophie's dad keeps trying to get under the bathtub. Ours (cat) just gets its moss under the piano and lies there making plaintive yowling noises until someone uses one of her actual toys, which has now become a patented moss retrieval stick, to fish it out.

What's wrong with calling a cat Debbie McGee?

Nothing I guess, as long as you don't have any plans to cut her in half...

For those who don't understand - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_McGee

Oh look, she's 50 on Halloween!

Well, I didn't until you said that. I bet I can get a load of sequins for practically nothing on eBay