• FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Jokes aside, it’s probably easier for the cat to learn to ignore “Human Connor” than it is to learn a new name for themselves, right?

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      1 year ago

      I’m not sure, maybe we underrate them. I knew of a dog that also answered to being called by two different names, it was so amusing when I saw it.

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        1 year ago

        I mean, who DOESN’T have a pet that responds to both “[real name]” and some variant of “Shithead”?

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    1 year ago

    One time, I got a job at a large, chain electronics store as a warehouse associate. They already had a guy there named Tim, but they immediately decided that they liked me more than him, and renamed that Tim (that worked there for 2 years) to “Other Tim.”

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      1 year ago

      My cousin dated two guys named Dewey (back to back, too). When she introduced the second one to us, we called him Dewey Twoey