If you were born in a certain era, you can tell by our names who we were named after. As Charmin mentioned earlier, she always had that name because she's so soft and fluffy, and as you can tell by the photo above, she does love her Charmin tissue. But it was my name our new parents wanted to change. So I became Mr. Whipple, after that famous dude in the Charmin toilet paper commercial. This is a hard name to live up to because I do have a tendency to "squeeze the Charmin" now and then. Hey, I'm just trying to have some fun here. And for those of you who don't know, Dick Wilson, the original Mr. Whipple, passed away this last November. I was heart broken. I attempted to write a sympathy note via e-mail to his daughter, Melanie, also an acrress, but it was returned, no address found. I do wish these web sites would keep their info up to date!
We had our names and picture in the Oregonian newspaper last year when the "Back Fence" column wanted cool pet names to publish. That was really impressive to all who read it. Plus one morning we were mentioned on the K103 radio station. This surprised even our parents. We do have our fans out there.
But the neatest thing Mom ever did was create our own postage stamp using Zazzle.com. It has our picture and names on it and you can actually mail a letter with it. However, I can't imagine why anyone would want to do that as it would leave a big ugly cancelaltion mark right across our picture!
It's such an ego trip to know that the very mention of your name causes people to smile. But then, we like to spread joy. Isn't that what being a cat is all about?
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