From: The Avocado Avenger Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet Subject: [alt.support.diet] Re: for the cat lovers--cat bathing as a martial art Date: 23 Jul 1999 02:30:24 GMT Subject: Re: for the cat lovers--cat bathing as a martial art From: hutchison7@aol.com (Hutchison7) Newsgroups: alt.support.diet I feel an OT story coming on. (Just a warning if you'd rather avoid it. My parents, both invalids, were delighted with the two kittens we gave them years ago, and promptly and inexplicably named them St. Theresa and St. Margaret. Mother's doctor called me in alarm after one of her visits. Afraid your mother has possibly had some small strokes, katie, he said solemnly. She told me she was talking to St. Theresa, who was on the foot of her bed last night. Well, yes, I said. At least this time St. Theresa didn't tinkly on the duvet. My father had a weird propensity for shortening names or creating nicknames, the more off color the better. St. Margaret became Maggie, which morphed into Maggot, and St. Theresa (I'd like to point out - THIS HAPPENED) became Tess and ultimately, Testicle. Dad's neighbors were startled one night to hear his familiar bass voice bellowing across the yard "Where's my little Maggot? Where's my little Testicle?" I'm compiling a booklet of stories about my Dad for my nephews, who were born after he died. The Maggot and Testicle story is one of my favorites.