The rigged Blue Peter cat naming poll

On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 02:27:28 +0100, Johnny B Good
wrote:

It's like this: the name "Cookie" when given to a cat is short for "Cooking
Fat", and I'm sure with a little imagination you'll be able to work out:

a/ why it's such a popular name for cats
b/ why Auntie wasn't so keen on it for the Blue Peter cat!

I remember my dad relating a tale about a cat that was so named
(Cooking Fat) some 40 odd years ago. The name came about, apparently, on
account it was in the habit of getting underfoot causing the victim to
exclaim "Cooking Fat!" (or words to that effect :-).

It was used by Sid James and Hattie Jacques in Carry On Loving (1970):

HJ: calling the cat by name
SJ: "Cooking fat?"
HJ: "Yes, that's his name"
SJ: "Funny name for a cat"
HJ: "Well, that's what it sounded like"
SJ: one of those looks!

In article , Bill Wright
wrote:
My dad, who has alzheimers, regularly shuts the cat in his bedroom
wardrobe.

Take the fuse out of his microwave.

Hmm. "Smoky" is quite popular name for a cat too.

Rod.

Spike wrote:

Rumours I have heard say viewers choice was "Pussy",
not "Cookie"!

As for Petra, I am devestated - only discovered the truth
this week :-(



They'll be telling us next that the 'Magic Roundabout' wasn't really
magic!


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"Ashley Booth" wrote in message
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Spike wrote:

Rumours I have heard say viewers choice was "Pussy",
not "Cookie"!

As for Petra, I am devestated - only discovered the truth
this week :-(



They'll be telling us next that the 'Magic Roundabout' wasn't really
magic!



And I have really serious doubts whether Bill and Ben really lived in
flowerpots.
--

JohnT

In message , JohnT
writes
"Ashley Booth" wrote in message
...
Spike wrote:

Rumours I have heard say viewers choice was "Pussy",
not "Cookie"!

As for Petra, I am devestated - only discovered the truth
this week :-(



They'll be telling us next that the 'Magic Roundabout' wasn't really
magic!



And I have really serious doubts whether Bill and Ben really lived in
flowerpots.

Don't knock it till you've tried it!
--
Ian

On 22 Sep, 12:34, "Agamemnon" wrote:

From what I've read (in The Independent, I think) it wasn't ever Cookie.
It was voted as Pussie. Cookie is just a euphemistic substitute.

In which case they're still lying about it.

The Times coyly says that is was a varient of 'puss'.

In that case the current Blue Peter producer should also be sacked.


If "Pussy" was the top suggestion it's hardly any wonder the BBC
decided against it. Sounds like some students multiple-voting to have
a laugh to me. So if "Pussy" was the top answer the BBC acted
correctly in rejecting it.

"zarbiface" wrote in message
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On 22 Sep, 12:34, "Agamemnon" wrote:

From what I've read (in The Independent, I think) it wasn't ever
Cookie.
It was voted as Pussie. Cookie is just a euphemistic substitute.

In which case they're still lying about it.

The Times coyly says that is was a varient of 'puss'.

In that case the current Blue Peter producer should also be sacked.


If "Pussy" was the top suggestion it's hardly any wonder the BBC
decided against it. Sounds like some students multiple-voting to have
a laugh to me. So if "Pussy" was the top answer the BBC acted
correctly in rejecting it.

Why not just call the animal "Cat".

--
Max Demian

zarbiface writes:

If "Pussy" was the top suggestion it's hardly any wonder the BBC
decided against it. Sounds like some students multiple-voting to have
a laugh to me. So if "Pussy" was the top answer the BBC acted
correctly in rejecting it.

If 'Pussy' was an acceptable name for Mrs Slocombe's cat in Are You
Being Served, should it not be good enough for Blue Peter?

On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 09:40:47 +0100, brightside S9
wrote:

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:39:39 GMT, "Mat Overton"
wrote:

Can someone please explain whey the hell "cookie" is an inappropriate name
for a cat?????


Try the urban dictionary.

www.urbandictionary.com

Sounds like an Americanism - hardly in common usage over here.

Someone did suggest there was some 'odd' voting patterns for cookie so
they thought there was some vote-rigging going on.
But that sounds like a poor excure rather than a good reason.

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:49:13 +0100, Peter
wrote:

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-%26-entertainment/blue-peter-viewers-wanted-to-name-cat-'****wizard'-20070921414/

I though that was a bit daft - until I got to the end where it accuses
the Beeb of extorting money with threats of prison. That bit was
actually funny as it has a grain of truth.