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To: sciencediet
Here's the article, it's on the Alaska Science Forum:

We Are Siamese If You Please

I am an old Boolean search expert, I used the first LEXIS/NEXIS stand-alone terminal in Atlanta GA (back in 1980 - when LEXIS was brand new) and have been searching databases for a living ever since! It's kind of a knack to put the words together in a way that locates the stuff you're looking for.

I used to take my old knitted dance leg warmers, cut them to length, put four holes in them, and "dress" my parents' extremely tolerant Lilac Point Siamese back in the 60s. She was a Blue Iris cat, owned by Mrs. R.J. Snelling of Decatur, GA, by Madali Mai Devotion of Blue Iris out of Blue Iris Bliss. Elo-Yse, Jen-Kins and Ventura breeding. She lived to be 22 years old and was quite a character. Just as a joke/present for my parents, I took her litter registration certificate and had her registered in C.F.A. at the age of 18. The folks at Headquarters were highly amused, and we corresponded for awhile and sent photos back and forth. She was sort of an "apple head" even with her very exalted breeding, because the Lilac gene pool was extremely limited in the 60s. At that time they were breeding for even color on the points and nose leather and clarity of body color (even at her death she still had the "glacial white" body color called for in the standard) at the expense of type.

148 posted on 03/12/2003 6:47:39 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (. . . "stately, kindly, lordly friend - condescend here to sit by me.")
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To: AnAmericanMother
I found some leg warmers. Sam came to inspect the drawer. I folded one in half, looked down on her, she looked up and I chickened out - for the time being, anyway. She won't hurt me but it's been a long day and a busy week, and with those long legs of hers, I know she'd turn into a spastic octopus. It'd be fun but I think I'll try it tomorrow.
149 posted on 03/12/2003 6:57:29 PM PST by Lady Jag (Googolplex Star Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)
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