On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 16:06:40 -0600, philo <philo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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>:
> My cat is named Helgriff
>
> When people ask me the name of my cat...they usually ask me to repeat
the
> name...
> and in most instances they need me to spell it out in order to get it
right.
>
> However, two of my friends, upon hearing the name...
> not only got it right the first time.
> Word for word, they made the exact comment:
>
> "Sounds Nordic."
>
> The thing that I thought odd, is that both of these men
> are dating the same women.
>
> So my theory is that the woman must have an affinity for men who
> readily perceive Nordic cat names.
>
> Can't be too many people like that.
>
> FWIW: The woman herself is quite an odd ball.
>
> One year at an open house here, she saw that I had an old horse-shoe
hanging
> on the wall.
> She talked at length about horse-shoes and horses in general.
> An impressive knowledge of the subject.
>
> I then asked her how old she was when she first started riding.
> She replied that she had never actually been on a horse,
> but has published two books on collecting plastic , model horses.
Please explain how that makes her an odd-ball. It is not necessary to be
a jockey to know about horses or the racing industry.
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- Nic.
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