Boss has not worked. He’s a lover and good boy, and Boss is not right. He’ll still be the boss, but not the “Boss.”
It’s Steve, after the The Tao of Steve and Steve Furness, a Steeler DT in the Steel Curtain (whose autograph I have and who I saw play basketball at a charity event in the 70’s).
The cat is smart and a lover, and his eyes and demeanor require a human name, not something cutesy like Boss.
Steve. Get used to it. He is your new feline overlord.
Mary G
Love it. I hated Hemingway and Mongo, sorry. Tell Steve feel better from me.
Tim C.
Steve is good. Though based on your description, “The Dude” might work too.
Nate Dawg
Steve is a human name?
slhanlon
Love it.
TaMara (BHF)
There must be photographic evidence. How do we know you didn’t just go to the vet and pick up this “Steve” fellow and are trying to pass him off as the cat formerly known as Boss?
No really, photos. Pretty please.
ETA: And tomorrow is fine, because I know he may not be at his best this evening. What with losing his fuzzy dice and all.
The Other Chuck
Named after another Steeler with a last name of “Furness” at that. Win.
Ted & Hellen
Even though you’re too ashamed of our friendship to credit me as having suggested this name to you, John, I want you to know that I forgive you and that I am pleased that you are happy with the moniker.
Hal
Annie: “Whatever you say, Stove.”
Flight Attendant Steve: “Steve.”
Annie: “Stove, what kind of name is that?”
Flight Attendant Steve: “That’s not a name – my name is Steve.”
Annie: “Are you an appliance?”
Flight Attendant Steve: “No I’m a man.”
Annie: “You’re a flight attendant.”
Flight Attendant Steve: “That’s absolutely accurate.”
spudvol
Cole, I guess that makes you Adam.
slag
Steve? You named your cat Steve? At least go with Stephen for dignity’s sake. Steve is a perfectly fine name for perfectly fine people. But Steve the Cat? Are you going to start writing comics about him or something?
eclare
Loved that movie, so is his middle name McQueen?
Culture of Truth
Steve…
Steve Austin…..
Man of Steel…
John Cole
@Ted & Hellen: This is true. You did suggest it a week ago.
And I am not embarrassed I am friends with you. I am embarrassed you can’t show all these people here that you are actually a good guy who just likes to tweak them all. And I am embarrassed you were so rude to Betty Cracker.
But I am not embarrassed that I consider you a friend. People want to judge me, they can fuck right off.
Ted & Hellen
@John Cole:
sob!
Ann
Just happy that you’re all settling in. Whatever what’s-his-faces name is, he looks like a very fine addition to the Cole household.
Aurona
It’s a great kitty name; we had brother kitties (not the same daddies) who we named Steve and Elliott. I think it fits your guy perfectly.
Violet
He looks like a Steve in that picture.
opie_jeanne
I have my own feline overlord, or overlady. Her name is Annie.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/snowwhite/9002245591/
trollhattan
Meets the one-syllable test, so works for me. Schteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeve it is.
seaboogie
Steve? Yeah, like that’s gonna last. Not even Stefan… He’s gonna be looking at you with those green eyes going “Steve…are you fucking kidding me? I ain’t no Steve, Bro – keep working on it…”
opie_jeanne
@opie_jeanne: And Steve is a great name for a cat. I’m kind of partial to Fred for a cat, even though it was my father’s name, and his father’s name.
Spaghetti Lee
Are you going to tell him to agitate the hell out of this snake?
eclare
One more comment, though, I don’t think you pursue that which retreats from us, but that’s a good thing.,
MattR
Was bit by a dog named Steven when I was a paper boy as a teen. But since you went with Steve, I guess that is completely different. Hopefully I don’t start flinching every time I read a post with his name.
opie_jeanne
@trollhattan: Better for calling him late at night than Fuckhead would have been, although that would have been funny.
FlipYrWhig
Furness is a much better name for a cat. Fur. Ness.
Mnemosyne
My friend and her family are still very much enjoying their new kitten, for obvious reasons. My friend is surprised at how little she remembers about cat care even though she had cats with her ex-husband, and I’m repressing an urge to say, “That’s because you were drinking a fifth of vodka every night when you were married to that guy” (her pre-sobriety days, IOW).
She was convinced for years that she was allergic to cats, but I still think it was a psychosomatic reaction to being reminded of her ex-husband.
trollhattan
@opie_jeanne:
And let’s be honest–names will be added so that’s not out of the question, presuming Rosie is willing to give it up.
Spaghetti Lee
I don’t have room to talk when it comes to pet-name originality: I have a black cat named Panther and an orange cat named Caramel. But still…if you were going to go with Steeler thing, why not go full bore and name him Kimo? Or Hines? Or Dermontti?
FlipYrWhig
@John Cole: Are all your belligerent Internet friends actually good people? Fuckhead? OK, possible. Ted? Uh, if you say so. Glenn Greenwald? _Jake Tapper_, for God’s sake?
lojasmo
Steve will not stand. Across this steve, you must not.
Predict another thread in fifteen minutes.
“Are all your belligerent Internet friends actually good people? Fuckhead? OK, possible. Ted? Uh, if you say so. Glenn Greenwald? _Jake Tapper_, for God’s sake?”
Because LOL@ TED Also too, JSF.
Odie Hugh Manatee
Congrats on the final decision! :) We have Stewie, Bobbi and Sammy, all regular names too. Good thing you think the same way or Tunch could have ended up being called Thunder Thighs.
FlipYrWhig
Also, if your cat is really an aggressive lover, you missed out by not calling him Carlos Danger.
Princess Leia
@FlipYrWhig: FTW
FlipYrWhig
@Spaghetti Lee: Or Keisel, who actually has a huge flowing beard. Pfft.
NotMax
Steve? Bleargh.
Admit it, you just wanted a name you could yell repeatedly in the streets without having to post about getting odd reactions.
Guess it could be worse. Could have chosen Lebowski.
Don K
Steve is a great name. But then we named our boy cat Billy so I would say that.
CanadaGoose
I used to have a delightful dog named Dave. Nobody ever forgot his name. Our cats have been Priscilla, Gusano, Alfie, Meep, Harold and Stanley. All names chosen by Mr. Goose, Animal Namer Extraordinaire.
TheOtherWa
And so he is Steve. Long may he rule your household!
Btw, I totally agree with you on John Oliver. He really needs his own show, since I’m assuming Stewart will return soon. Or maybe he’ll have great success as a director and give up TDS. JO is kicking ass.
Chickamin Slam
Next week it will be Bob. Don’t fret about it, my neighbours had multiple names for each cat they “owned”. The two they have now are:
Cat # 1: Clark, Inky, Blackie, B.C.
Cat # 2: Whisker Pro, Old General, Oscar, others that escape me at the moment ….
Past cat: Gato, Gato Jones, Mini Micro, Cuckoo, Little Orange, Little Baby …
Just remember this sage advice: If you don’t own a cat, get one. If you get a cat, it owns you!
SG
How’s Rosie doing? And “Steve”? At least it’s better than Prince George.
RobertDSC-PowerMac G5 Dual
I like Boss better.
But Tunch still owns all. Even from the other side of the Rainbow Bridge.
#teamtunchforlife
chrome agnomen
Alan! Alan! Alan!….’s not alan, it’s steve. Steve! Steve! Steve!
Nerdlinger
@chrome agnomen: Lol
Yatsuno
Stevedore. Steve for short. Yeah, it’ll do.
Authoritahs alerted.
@YellowJournalism: My father’s name is Steve. He hates cats but cats love him. Or that’s the official story anyway.
YellowJournalism
Steve. Steve-o. Stevarino. Steve the Meow Man Rubbing His Butt on John. The Stevemeister. Steeeeve.
I have relatives named Steve. They all are currently or have been stoners. They’re also laid back with a sense of humor and a soft side, always seeming to get in and out of trouble easily.
Works for me.
RandomMonster
I like human names for animals, because it grants them additional dignity. We have Maisy, Madeline, Charley, George, and Josie.
I can’t say Steve is more generic than our pet names, though I’m pretty sure I don’t like it because it has just one syllable. I only like to call to cats when there are more syllables to do the sing-song: Chaaaar-leeeeey! Maaaaaai-seeeeey!
But you’ll be like Fuck You In Any Case, so…
jl
Oh, fer gawds sakes, try again….
Steve is a good name. If the cat takes to it, I think Steve will do fine.
I can see Steve as in Steve Furness (though I am such a lousy football fan I had to read his wiki article to get it)
But The Tao of Steve? I don’t get that at all, unless Cole is D * ks and Steve The Cat is Syd. Or, Cole is the Tao of Steve and Steve The Cat is the Tao of Cat, or something.
jl
Third try:
Steve is a good name. If the cat takes to it, I think Steve will do fine.
I can see Steve as in Steve Furness (though I am such a lousy football fan I had to read his wiki article to get it)
But The Tao of Steve? I don’t get that at all, unless Cole is the character played by Donal Logue and Steve The Cat is Syd. Or, Cole is the Tao of Steve and Steve The Cat is the Tao of Cat, or something.
jl
Dex
Edit: it wasn’t that.
I wonder why I was in moderation. I thought maybe dex was some bad drug name. Funny Word Press!
notorious JRT
I was hoping for “Hobbs” as a foil for Cole’s Calvinism.
But, now Cole’s being followed by a moon shadow – or is it his cat, Steve(n)?
The prophet Nostradumbass
@John Cole: When all the rest of us have to go with is that T & H is an incessant, vile, nasty pig, well, that’s just too bad for him.
Yatsuno
@jl: FYWP needs no reason to moderate. It will do so at its own pleasure.
jl
Been traveling on bidness and very busy, so had to catch up on the saga of Steve.
I was very touched by Rosie’s tribute to the late Tunch. I feel some resolution now.
What is the problem with the name Mongo? I guess the Blazing Saddles Mongo is a problem? But that Mongo was pretty impressive in some ways, not a total dummy.
Also, through the magic of inernet, I see there have been some impressive Mongos:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongo
And Mongo reminds me of Mungo which reminds me of Mungo Park, a total intrepid badass and innovator in several ways (some good some not so good).
So, I will call him Steve The Cat, but from what I have read about his strength, stamina, and wits, there will always be a little voice whiispering ‘Mungo’ from somewhere within me.
max
@opie_jeanne: Better for calling him late at night than Fuckhead would have been, although that would have been funny.
Well, that’s one of my black cat’s nicknames along with ‘Asshole’, ‘Asswipe’ and ‘Shithead’.
max
[‘And if you knew the cat in question, you’d realize how kind I’m being.’]
p.s. ‘Steve’ is the guy who sells you your dope, so that’s equivalent to naming him ‘Dude’. (‘Steve, dude! I have got to score for this weekend.’)
Ted & Hellen
@The prophet Nostradumbass:
sob!
Suzanne
Steve is fine. Fred is better.
Fezzik is best. Or Andre.
notorious JRT
@FlipYrWhig:
According to the Slate Carlos Danger name generator, Steve Thecat would sext under the name Jaime Adventure.
jl
@The prophet Nostradumbass: I do not know whether T&H is what you say or a japester trying to provoke commenters for some reason or other.
I don’t care much which it is.
Edit: when T&H makes a comment I can figure out whether is a joke or not, often good comments. Would like more of those, but whatever. It’s a (still) free country (in most respects).
Radio One
I know what you’re doing here John, it won’t work.
2liberal
cat name generator
Cole you need help. visit the link and try again.
mtmofo
Knowing fully well that the Tunch FEED visage will never cease to exist, may I suggest a new theme for Steve? I can? Why, thank you. This calls for a horizontal option. Steve on his side with the tagline RUB. Yes, I know there’s a porno aspect to this suggestion.
My gray, green eyed DSH is named Pretty Boy Floyd (Floyd for short) for his gangster looking strut/swagger as he approaches for his skritches.
Humbly submitted from a frequent lurker/reader.
Joshua Norton
You do realize that now you have to get another boy cat and name him “Adam”, don’t you?
jl
@max:
” p.s. ‘Steve’ is the guy who sells you your dope, so that’s equivalent to naming him ‘Dude’. (‘Steve, dude! I have got to score for this weekend.’) ”
OK, thanks. Cole kept it a secret and misdirected us. It’s about the Nip.
How about ‘Bud’ then?
You know, around the east end of Golden Gate Park, Guys who look like ‘Steve dudes’ walk by me and call be ‘Bud’ for some reason. Kind of low, like I’m their bud or something. Wonder what’s that about. Anyone know?
Death Panel Truck
We had a tabby cat in the seventies. Mom liked Mickey Gilley, so she was called Gilley. She turned out to be a mean, nasty bitch who hated the sweet lady who give her life (Lucy, a beautiful calico, whom we all loved.) Gilley was a bulimic who would regularly gorge herself and then barf it up behind the couch. Finally mom disowned her and told us kids, “She’s YOUR goddamn cat. YOU clean up after her!”
My girlfriend (now my wife) and I had a male tabby named Tommy Tutone in the early nineties. Dude died on 16th Ave. in Yakima. You do not want to see a dead cat with its head smashed by a car tire. You do not.
KS in MA
“You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve?”
wasabi gasp
You’re in a ballpark.
Is your name Michael Diamond? No mine’s Clarence.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@jl: Were his comments about how Jerry Sandusky’s victims may have enjoyed it jokes?
T & H’s methodology here: Take what is the prevailing opinion on a subject, turn it on its head, and express that opposition in the most obnoxious manner possible.
jl
@KS in MA: So how about Lauren for the cat? Lauren can be a man’s name, though its rare.
jl
@The prophet Nostradumbass: I did not mean to imply that I thought they were good jokes.
asiangrrlMN
No. His name is Bossanova, Boss, for short. IN MY MIND. Sigh. I guess I’ll get used to it…eventually. Hello….Steve. Who’s a cute kitteh? STEVE is!
It’s gonna take a while. He’s still cuter than hell, though.
Yatsuno
@asiangrrlMN: Still pouting slightly over Hemingway. But Stevedore does have some dignity to it.
ruemara
@John Cole: It’s a matter of taste. T&H is most certainly not a good guy, it’s hardly “tweaking”, however, who you like is who you like and there’s no shame in that. We all see different aspects of the same person. My gut says sociopath, yours says good guy. De gustibus etc etc. And while I don’t quite see a Steve in the Feline Formerly Known As Boss, shoot-Steve it is. As long as he’s well cared for and adored for being the cat he is, it’s all good.
jl
@asiangrrlMN:
I guess we both like Steve, but have different impressions of him.
Yes, cute, but Mungo, er, Steve, can leap over the house, pry open doors, Nip party everyone else under the table, and outwit Cole (obs).
Why, it’s almost as if some eery implacable Saturnine unseen presence, from somewhere beyond our ken, sent this Steve to rule Cole. Just almost seems like that’s what happened.
Deep waters here, I think, and we merely look at the ripples on the surface.
Emerald
IMHO, Steve is a good name mainly because it really isn’t a name most folks would think of for a cat. It is, therefore, unusual. I like that.
I do have a better name for him though: General Stuck
Can’t believe I only now just thought of that.
(And thank you for your efforts for sweet little Snowbell!)
jl
@Emerald:
” I do have a better name for him though: General Stuck ”
Oh no. Stuck and Tunch have been plotting this out together from wherever they are? Cole’s in for a ride, that’s for sure. Good luck, John Cole! You’ll be in my thoughts.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@Suzanne:
Fred Fredburger would have been a good one. :)
Ms.B
Love Steve as a name! Whenever friends of mine name their pets something like “Josephine de Beauharnais” (true anecdote as example), they end up calling their lovely one “Kitty” or “Doggie.” One friend’s dalmation who had a complex name is now called “Dalmation.”
Steve is great.
Arclite
Um, my name is Steve, actually. You’re sure you didn’t name him after me?
jl
@Ms.B: Ha! When I was a kid, my family had a cat that would only respond to The Cat. We tried different names, and I guess the cat kept hearing cat, and decided its name must be Cat.
Never gave a bit of notice to any name we tried.
The Cat had a very doggy personality too. It was memorable cat.
Warren Terra
Eh. If you’re going to opt for a human name, I still prefer “Paul”, short for Polydactyly.
Wayners T
Every Steve I have ever known was a pervert.
scav
@The prophet Nostradumbass: yeah, they’re not jokes nor expressed with any intention of good will. All this proves is that T&H has added overt and abject sycophancy to certain people to his usual repetoire of “look at MEEEEEE” bag of tricks.
fuckwit
I once knew a dude named Rusty who named his dog Rusty.
SpaceSquid
STEVE HOL – ER, COLE!
Anne Laurie
@Emerald:
You realize ‘Steve’ was Gen. Stuck’s legal name, right?
Ms.B
@Anne Laurie:
Well that makes it double good, whether John thought about this at all, or it was just harmonic cat/commenter convergence.
.
Emerald
@Anne Laurie:
Aha! True!
So that’s even better!
A Humble Lurker
@John Cole:
You’re like Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly. Or maybe that Bill Kristol guy. The real question is Jon, I mean John, if you consider that a good thing.
Then again, you did take Greenwald’s side over the nun thing. And you were a wingnut. Your judgment can be a tad questionable at times. (If you’re not just keepin’ the runt happy so he won’t email you.)
Also, the new name only makes me think of the Steve The Pikmin meme. (Look it up!)
Alex S.
Steve…. I think there was a movie with Barbara Streisand and Ryan O’Neal and she called him Steve even though is real name was Howard.
mattH
Should have just called him Furness. So good in so many ways.
raven
How’s your dongle?
SixStringFanatic
@Alex S.: “What’s Up, Doc”, one of my favorite movies when I was a kid because it was funny and they showed it a ton back in the 70’s when movies on TV were schedule fillers, not something you charged people $20 a month for.
Gonna go wait for the neighbor kids to get up so I can yell at them.
ETA: Rented “What’s Up, Doc” a coupla months ago to see how well it held up. Still damn funny.
Betty Cracker
You know, I think “Steve” actually suits him! It’s a good name for my new vicarious cat.
Montarvillois
Not another “feline overlord” for me. I already have one that keeps me hopping.
p.a.
Ooh I was close. I suggested Furness- go back in the threads and check. Steve Furness went to that NFL factory URI at the same time as Chuck Noll’s son. The son put Furness on the Steeler’s radar. I think he was with them, and played a lot, for 3 of that era’s Super Bowl winners.
Can’t remember my next doc. appointment, but this I can…
(Great song line from They Might be Giants: if it wasn’t for disappointment I wouldn’t have any appointments…)
njb
Give Steve a scratch behind the ears for me.
kindness
At least it isn’t Milton (my grandfather) or Horace (a good friend).
Steve, eh? OK. That works.
RK
Steve? Isn’t that a bit dull and better suited for a human being? Why not be a little creative?
BTW, if you get mad at Steve will you call him Steven?
Bobby Thomson
@Alex S.: What’s up, doc?
Betty Cracker
@RK: Both of my dogs have first and middle names as well as our family last name. We call one by her first and middle name all the time and the other just by her first name. When they’ve done something wrong, both get called by all three names. It’s probably confusing for them.
c u n d gulag
We Untermenschen welcome our new Uberkatzen!
Lavocat
Seriously?
Worst. Cat. Name. EVAH!
Might just as well go the Full Monty and call him Bruce.
“‘Ello, Bruce!”
gogol's wife
And meanwhile, Will and Kate named their baby after my cat (Louis), as I predicted.
I guess it’s actually Louis Mountbatten, but I prefer my version.
TriassicSands
@2liberal:
Name generators can be fun to play with (when you have nothing else to do), so I followed your link and entered the relevant information for one of my cats. The generator churned out
“Diminutive”
WTF? That has to be the worst name I’ve ever seen for a cat (or a dog or a pigmy komodo dragon) or any other living creature.
J.D. Rhoades
It doesn’t matter what you call him. He’ll come when he wants to, not when you call.
danielx
I shoulda followed my first impulse and suggested Ivan…but all to the good, we’re on the lookout for an Oriental Shorthair male like our late best boy Greg and will save it for him. Greg was named by my mom and according to her it was short for Gregoriev – don’t ask, you had to know mom; she was not a point A to Point B kind of person. More like point A to point B by way of points R, L and G….
raven
@J.D. Rhoades: No shit, and I guarantee he’ll have more than one name.
Suffern ACE
@TriassicSands: here Dimmy Dimmy Dimmy? I
Schlemizel
I feel really bad for that poor cat – you know all the other cats will make fun of him for having a human name, a mundane name. There won’t be a pope named ‘Larry’ and there has never been a king named ‘Joe’ or a queen named ‘Amy’. Why would you tag a regal creature with a pedestrian human name? ;)
Southern Beale
I dunno, Steve? I’m not feelin’ it, dude.
Looks more like a Kevin to me. No one ever names their pets Kevin.
RoonieRoo
All hail Steve! I like Steve. But I named my dogs Gregor and Isaac and two of my cats are Gracie and Lewis so I’m a human name kinda gal.
raven
@Southern Beale: How’s your paw?
Southern Beale
Unrelated but this report is popping around the intertubz … it appears George Zimmerman’s cop friend Patrick Rehder called him to tip him off about the SUV crash:
Don’t know how trustworthy this source is, but the all-hail-Zimmerman-the-hero thing was awfully convenient….
Meanwhile, rookie Tennessee Titan “Tig” Willard was driving to training camp in Nashville when he actually DID pull a woman, her three kids, and even the fucking dog from a burning car. Meet a real hero.
jheartney
Used to have a boss named Steve, so in my case this isn’t much of a leap. I do approve of not naming the beast after one of his putative characteristics (“Fluffy” “Bounder” “Loverboy”); a real human name allows him the space to fill it out with his own personality rather than have it imposed by a cutesy moniker.
raven
@Southern Beale: Whatchoo mean “even the fucking dog”????
becca
“Hi, Thsteve! I like pizza!”
Who knows that movie quote?
Morbo
His name is Gorak!
DanF
Steve! Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs…
Victory
Steve Dallas.
He looks like a Steve Dallas to me.
ruviana
@Southern Beale: The minute I saw that Zimmerman story I smelled shenanigans. Not surprised.
RK
I named my cat Irwin and he grew up to be an accountant.
Steven just isn’t acceptable. Sorry.
Redshirt
Steve The Aggressive Lover!
Frosty
I still like Chairman meow
T. Scheisskopf
I had a yellow tom named Frank Fucking Gates. It fit perfectly.
srv
There is just something wrong with naming animals after common human names. Some kind of weird projection thing. It would be like having a handle “Fido” or “raven.”
I think this error is on the scale of your support for the Iraq War.
I say this as someone so cool to be named Steve.
zirgar
BELIEVE IN STEVE!
RK
Naming your cat Steve is like naming your son Whiskers. It’s just not done!
Biscuits
We had a cat named Steve. When he became frisky or annoyed, he became Dr. Steevil. Miss that furry guy.
Redshirt
So not only did Cole pick a stupid name for the cat, but he also just powered up T&H to a higher troll level.
Prepare for non-stop “Tweaking” BJ – Cole likes it!
What a thread.
AdamK
Steve is perfect.
beltane
I don’t know how I feel about the cat being named after my husband. At least his full name should be “St. Stephen”.
skerry
My ex-husband’s name is Steve. Dislike.
Amir Khalid
Re T&H: Dafuq?
Re Steve: I’m going to tell myself that Steve was named after the captain of Liverpool FC, Steven “Stevie G” Gerrard.
beltane
@Southern Beale: I’m sure the DOJ will appreciate this further bit of proof that the Sanford police department was complicit in the cover-up of Treyvon Martin’s death, not to mention the fact that they are guilty of attesting to thwart justice in any civil case.
Librarian
Howard: She ripped my jacket and when Eunice came along…
Judge Maxwell: Who’s Eunice?
Howard: Eunice is my fiancée.
Judge Maxwell: You have a wife AND a fiancée?
Howard: No, sir. But, she kept calling me “Steve.”
Judge Maxwell: Your own fiancée calls you “Steve?”
Howard: No, sir, my wife. Or rather, the one who ISN’T my wife.
Judge Maxwell: What does the one who isn’t your FIANCEE call you? Howard?
Howard: No, sir, the one who isn’t my fiancée doesn’t call me Howard and the one who isn’t my wife doesn’t call me Howard because the one who isn’t my fiancée is also the one who isn’t my wife. The other one who ISN’T my wife, the one who IS my fiancée… she doesn’t call me “Steve.” She calls me Howard. Do you see?
Judge Maxwell: Let’s just skip over this part, and move on.
Redshirt
@Amir Khalid: There’s no good way to spin this thread. Utter disaster.
gelfling545
The Naming of Cats
rikyrah
ok…Steve then…..
NCSteve
Hey, works for me.
Forum Transmitted Disease
@Southern Beale: It’s not disturbing that this was staged; that was obvious. What’s disturbing is that this murdering piece of shit apparently has the backing of the entire justice system in the county in which he resides, from the beat cops all the way up to the DA’s office.
Mike in NC
I’m shocked, simply SHOCKED, that a gun-toting vigilante in a southern state has ties to the local cops. Look for the media to ignore this story. Zimmerman will be on the cover of next week’s People magazine.
Patricia Kayden
@Southern Beale: I don’t think anyone sensible would believe that Zimmerman is a hero — even if this orchestrated incident is not as bogus as it sounds. So what if he helped a family in need? He killed an unarmed child. Nuff said.
phoebes-in-santa fe
@Librarian: Love that movie. And as someone pointed out higher up in the thread, the movie has “held up” in time. Still great.
And now, Cole, keep the damned name “Steve” and don’t OVERTHINK it! You are guilty of overthinking “Boss” and driving us all nuts. My cats, “Robin Obama” and “Alice Obama” don’t know their names but will come running when they hear me call “Treats!” They think their names is “Treat”. And they are reasonably intelligent cats…
2liberal
@TriassicSands:
I didn’t actually try it out so it might not be very good.. Still I think Steve is a people name, not a cat name.
Ted & Hellen
@ruemara:
Your gut says sociopath because I generally disagree with you about political issues, and I direct my insults at the wrong people.
I could use the same language, turn it toward the other tribe, and never again suffer a complaint here about how much of a “vile” “sociopath” I am.
Your sort’s “standards” of language and conduct apply only to those you dislike. In that area, as in others, you have no principles or consistency.
It’s really quite ridiculous.
Ted & Hellen
@scav:
lol
My complexity contains universes!
That “sycophancy” is rich coming from you.
Ted & Hellen
@Patricia Kayden:
Simpleton.
Alex S.
Yes, thanks folks, it was What’s Up Doc?
Also, Steve Holt!
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
Furness needs one of these.
Maybe one of these, too.
Quaker in a Basement
In the movie “Over the Hedge,” Steve was the name of the hedge.
ranchandsyrup
Solid. Like tying it to the Steelers. Of course my dog is named Elway so I’m biased.
Karen in GA
Perfect. I like simple human names for animals. We were thinking about naming the new dog Steve, but we have an in-law named Steve, so it didn’t work (for a number of reasons).
Jebediah
If Steve it is to be, Steve it is to be. Steve is also the name of my 92 FZR600, a scrappy little fucker of a bike, the only bike I have ever had that revealed a name to me. When I have the scratch, Steve is getting rebuilt from the swingarm pivot on up. I hope it doesn’t ruin his personality.
ETA: If Steve is incorrect, he will find a way to let you know.
kwAwk
I can’t get my head wrapped around naming a cat Steve. What was Bob taken?
Jim?
Joe?
Mike?
StringOnAStick
My soul-mate kitty came to me named Gwen, even though the prior owners later realized she was a he, and therefore the “King Arthur and Queen Guinevere” meme wasn’t holding up. I thought about naming him Jim, but he actually responded well to Gwen so I decided he was one of those rare but real guys named Gwen, though usually written as Gwenn or Gwyn.
Almost 30 years and I still miss him, but that missing him hasn’t made me love the cats I’ve had since any less. And isn’t that the beauty and wonder of having pets?
Steve is a fine name, and he’s a good looking boy!
fidelio
@2liberal: I tried that and it suggested I name a male cat Sophia.
As a non-coder I hate to point fingers but something ain’t right.
Mystical Chick
@chrome agnomen:
That gopher or badger or whatever the hell he is makes me laugh hysterically every.single.time. The hubs doesn’t get it (about which I haz a sad) but thank you for reading my mind.
:)
Gustopher
I have never once met a person named Steve that I liked. Not once.
Perhaps it is because they were all bitter they had a cat name? I can only hope so.
EthylEster
How can he be a lover if you had him castrated?
Somebody help me out here.
grishaxxx
@YellowJournalism: My Copier-Guy thoughts exactly! Go Steve of the asymmetrical digitation!
Mrs. Polly
General Steve. Or,
His excellency, the Right Hon. Steve.
They’re all place holders, really, because cats do name themselves. Maybe he’ll stay Steve, maybe you’ll find yourself calling him Your Imperial Furness, Baby-cakes, or, as my Fletcher became, Destruct-O-Puss.
I’ve no right to suggest anything, since my dog, first owned (and rescued from) someone I knew, went from “Kaiser” to “Mr. Dog.” I never did come up with the ultimate combination of goofy and gravitas he merited.
metricpenny
John I want you to change my name too. My last name. Marry me. If you provide your women with only half the love and affection you give your pets … I DO.
I liked Boss but Steve works too. See. I’m even able to compromise.
jl
Cole? Cole? You get an online proposal and don’t reply? Let’s hope something offline, then, otherwise, very boorish,. Yeesh.
ninja3000
Steve? For a cat? Kripes, then why not something catchy like “Larry”…
La Caterina
Love it. My dad was a Steve. He was one of the sweetest people who ever lived. Never said a bad word about anyone and greeted each day with a smile on his face.
All hail our new feline overlord Steve!
celiadexter
I wholeheartedly approve, particularly since my husband’s name is Steve. But eventually he will give himself another name (ours named themselves Squirmo and Fatboy) and you’ll have to use both on an equal opportunity basis so he knows he has two names. If he’s particularly creative he may end up with 3 or 4…
Cassidy
@John Cole: I’d be embarrassed. Having a friend like Sandusky & Ramirez is like having that friend that brags about fucking drunk freshman at the Frat house Not cool at all.
Mrs. Polly
Oh Mr. Cole. You may have to get another cat just to use our friend StrangeAppar8us’s suggestion: “Barabajaggle,” which, he says, is a legendary kitty name that instantly shortens to “BJ”…
Jackie
Steeeee-eeve…!!! It does have 2 syllables under the right (wrong) circumstances ;)
asiangrrlMN
@Yatsuno: I like Hemingway, too, but I guess we don’t have much say in the matter.
@jl: Maybe “Steve” has two sides to him. Laid-back loverboy on the one hand, super-hero gate-leaper on the other! Yin-Yang. That would be a good name for him as well. ::waves hi at you::
I suggested Countdown to Cole because of Steve’s toes, but I don’t think it took.
Mrs. Polly
@Mrs. Polly:
Correction: “Barabajagal.”
Or Barry Hussein Obajagal. Trust Strange to have an obscure and mystical Donovan tune up his sleeve.
Come on, Mr. Cole, One More Cat! I’d do it, but Mr. Polly is deeply allergic. I had to talk him out of a chinchilla, because of the dust baths. We are resigned to a skink, I’m afraid.
danah gaz
Roughly speaking, I name mine after tyrants – currently Groucho Mugabe, and our other one we nicknamed Chairman Maow (his name was Max when we got him as an adult)
The tyrant theme didn’t start with me. I have a friend who named hers Nixon and Reagan.
Ellid
CAPTAIN AMERICAT!!!!!!!
danah gaz
@Ted & Hellen: So why in the fuck, exactly, did you decide to derail a thread about a goddamned cat and make it about Zimmerman?
Go soak your head, you hopelessly narrow little cretin. Not
everything has to be about politics.
@Southern Beale, fuck you too. Just because.
danah gaz
@Southern Beale: HENGH!
If I have to hear more about the zimerman trial, *I* will stalk you in a fucking pickup through a gated community.
danah gaz
@RK: lol. awesome.
Paul in KY
@jl: I already have a cat named Mongo, male, 3.5 years old & there’s only room for one feline Mongo (and I got him)!
Medicine Man
Bleh… Boss is the perfect name. Cute and a bit ironic.