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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orfew, post: 3672526, member: 74968&quot;]Happy 90th birthday. Here is one of my favourite poems to mark the day.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Naming Of Cats by T. S. Eliot</p><p><br /></p><p>The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,</p><p>It isn&#039;t just one of your holiday games;</p><p>You may think at first I&#039;m as mad as a hatter</p><p>When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.</p><p>First of all, there&#039;s the name that the family use daily,</p><p>Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James,</p><p>Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey--</p><p>All of them sensible everyday names.</p><p>There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter,</p><p>Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames:</p><p>Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter--</p><p>But all of them sensible everyday names.</p><p>But I tell you, a cat needs a name that&#039;s particular,</p><p>A name that&#039;s peculiar, and more dignified,</p><p>Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular,</p><p>Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?</p><p>Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,</p><p>Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,</p><p>Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum-</p><p>Names that never belong to more than one cat.</p><p>But above and beyond there&#039;s still one name left over,</p><p>And that is the name that you never will guess;</p><p>The name that no human research can discover--</p><p>But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.</p><p>When you notice a cat in profound meditation,</p><p>The reason, I tell you, is always the same:</p><p>His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation</p><p>Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:</p><p>His ineffable effable</p><p>Effanineffable</p><p>Deep and inscrutable singular Name.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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