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

Prolly.

(stretches languidly)

Thass what bein' a cat's all about... ignoring things what arn't immediately important!

(Unlike dogs who huff and whiffle around all the time!)

I think thats what I like about cats the most... as long as they're fed and fussed they are pretty self sufficient.If you're very lucky they migh deign to sit on your lap...they might do you that favour if you're really lucky.. it's that total arrogance I admire!

I know some folk actually LIKE the idea of a canine companian, but I find those big soulful eyes and pathetically wagging tails fairly irritating.

Its not that dogs show their affection... no problem with that...

Its just that they'll wag their tails and fawn at ANYONE. Even owners that ill treat them. Cats just pack their red spotted hankerchieves and stalk off to London in search of better fortunes if they don't approve of their "owners".

Cats have an element of... choosiness, somehow.

Now... what was the question?

Whiffle!! Thats another one!"! You are getting good at this - there ought to be two games - yours and another where the user chooses a sound and then throws it open for interpretation!

Have I never used the word whiffle before? Dogs DO whiffle, though... don't they?

I know when I was a tiny child (well under 18months, anyway, before kids actually talk properly) my first recognisable word was "Murr". But no one could figure out what I meant by a Murr. I obviously liked Murrs, but what WERE they?



I've got LOTS of words like that.

Have a guess!

Hummmmm - possible "Mother Dear"?

Still not sure about a Whiffling dog though!

You're MILES out!

What noise does a cat make in gretting S'hhhh?

M'rrrr(p)!!!

I used to call CATS "Murrs" - no one bothered to tell me what the bloody creatures were called in adult!



Motherdear, indeed!!! You crack me up!



Dogs DO whiffle... imagine little skittery dogs that huffandsniffand go round in cicles whilst they're doing it. They make a strange whiffley sort of noise.


Whiffly dogs, yes?

Sorry - that should read "greeting" not gretting. Even cats don't gret!

By 'eck, I'm not reading THAT backlog!

Aye, Ev, That's what I like about cats too. Dogs are just so pathetic.

What... that they say "Murr" as a greeting, Tef?

Well, thats one good reasen to like cats I guess.

I think its a bit harsh to dismiss dogs as pathetic as such.. dogs are OK (especially on toast) but they don't appeal to me much as pets... too huffly and whiffley and generally.. well DOG LIKE.

No discrimination or sense as to where and what to plug their loyalty into, sort of thing.

I wouldn't call it pathetic as such....

Just guilty of appalling judgement!


Wass wrong with that backlog, missus? It's GOOD backlog, very highclass sort of banter and conversational gem like back log. Subtle denoument class of a backlog.

And its mine!!!!!

Well, that as well, aye. Buy I was thinking more of the first pist in the page.


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and it's LONG!

Yup!

Tef's back then

I don't do whifflin dogs - Big ones are betterer - I've always wanted a Bloodhound - or an Irish Wolfhound
No idea why - just do - I used to have OES until I had to go away to work

Now... OES. That sounds like some form of virulent disease you wouldn't want to publise!

Or is it the technical term for what I know as "Dulux" Dogs

BIG dogs don't whiffle. They're Huffle Hounds (Deeper tone sort of sniff if you see what I mean)

Did you manage to read back what Murrs were, or doesn't your screen whizzle back that far?

(I think I'm going to start designing a new language, just for something to do....)

You've already got a new/different language - yup got the Murrs (your version of cat without the constraints of nowing the word) - and I agree with the Huffle bit too!

ps - you've now go to put them both into the Oma mata pee whatsit thread!!!

No I haven't... that's an SEP!



Besides, I ought to get a copyright on these words. I've used majority of them in my pomes anyway....

I've put squinch on the thread, instead.




I'm going to have a bugger of a job trying to explain what a wiggy is...

Good morning all.Wiggy???Mmmmmmmmm.Sounds like a lurker with ears!!!

Morning Smufles - a Wiggy eh! - could be a .............. oh - perhaps I'll wait for enlightenment!


Wassa SEP???

Morning each!

You don't retain Douglas Adams atall, do you Shhh?

An S E P is someone else's problem. Its when the settee appears on the Cricket Pitch, in one of his books. No one except Arthur and Ford acknowledged it because the appearance of a settee onna cricket pitch was classed as an SEP! (Rolls eyes... you just can't get the staff nowadays, can you?)

Wassa a wiggy?


Good question.


A wiggy is.... well its at least 2 things.

It started off in Eire. The boys couldn't say Aromat (a condiment rather like salt, but much nicer), but they knew what it was, and they knew if they asked nicely (or as nicely as inarticulate toddlers COULD) mum would "wiggy" a little of this salt like condiment onto their chips, or whatever. So it became, in familly parlance "Pass the Wiggy, please", because the tub was shaken or waggled over the food.

After that... it sort of progressed to a noun, a verb or an adjective, depending on the sense of the sentence. It became Familly for "thingy" or "whatchamacallit"

It also becmae an alternitive for swearing infront of the kids, as in "Damn! Thats a bit of a wiggy to sort out" (or words to that effect!

And also, if there was something fiddly one had to do (like balance books, figure out which herb to use and which one would make you see purple giraffes, etc) one used to wiggy it out, or "Have a bit of a wiggy". The permutations are endless!

By the time I left Westport, I had a whole small town in Western Eire with a new word in their vocabulary.....


But I like Smurfle's idea of a hairy lurker, too!

Are we enlightened enough now?

And what did YOU think a wiggy was, S'hhh?

It's me memory guv honest - it went along wiv me sanity ages ago!

Love the wiggy thingy - excellent description!

I won't tell you what I was erring towards - your description is FAR betterer