We had a black cat.
My father named her Medes, because she wasn't a Persian.

(This is true - my dad's one of those "witty" types).
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 4 Feb 2013, 9:42, 2 replies)

that reminds me
of that bit in QI when Rory McGrath said he was going to do a bird watching program with Bill Odie and call it "Panuri biarmici" which is the Latin name for a bearded tit and Sean Lock took the piss saying

There's probably about six blokes in Oxford who've gone, "Heh"
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Mon 4 Feb 2013, 11:31, closed)

Yes, that's exactly right.
My dad would have been one of those six blokes, did he live in Oxford.

He and his scientist mates rate women in millihelens, since Helen Of Troy's beauty "launched a thousand ships".
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 4 Feb 2013, 11:35, closed)