On Apr 25, 6:54 pm, "Christina Websell"
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Christina Websell wrote:

Oh, no, he doesn't ever get called that. It is a slang name in the UK
for a penis and it's not funny for a cat name and well you know it.
I like you less for this suggestion.

Is "John Thomas" considered vulgar or something? I mean, it's not out of
the realm of possibility that I might name a cat Willie or Dick or Peter
or
Johnson, even though those names all mean "penis" in the US. (OK, I doubt
I'd name a cat "Johnson". Probably not Dick either. ) But I wouldn't
name a cat, say, "Pr*ck", which has a much more vulgar connotation, not to
mention it being an epithet. Poor kitty, it would be like you were
insulting
him every time you said his name!

I have a hard time believing that "John Thomas" is *that* rude - I mean it
must be a pretty common name over there - but I defer to the UKers on that
one.

Did you ever read "Lady Chatterley's Lover?" If so, you will know that John
Thomas means what I said before and it not a fit name for a cat.

But it was what Robert Heinlein named the _supposed_ protagonist of
his juvenile SF novel The Star Beast and not only that, the real
protagonist, JT's alien "pet" who turns out ot be a princess of a very
advanced alien race, has a hobby of "raising John Thomases." Heinlein
got all of that past an editor who obviously did not know English
slang as well as he did.

Will in New Haven

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