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[landingtree]

The visiting cat who we've been calling Riddle has a name on her collar now. It is 'Hyper Pickle.'

I mean, that's certainly a thing you could do. We had a cat called Little Biscuit once, and further back in family history, there's Uncles Paddling Marmalade the Third. But I have not managed to formulate a riddle to which 'Hyper Pickle' is the answer. I suppose it would be redundant.

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[justy]

Is she hyper? I can imagine naming a cat Pickle - and then maybe, if she turned out to be Hyper...

[landingtree]

She is in fact fairly hyper.

[leaflemming]

I believe Uncles Paddling Marmalade owed his name to a three-part random dictionary search, which is one way I can imagine ending up with Hyper Pickle. Also if one had a cat called Pickle and then acquired a subsequent cat who was even more lie Pickle than Pickle had been.

[justy]

A two-part random search, done (I think - I was only 4, so I might be misremembering) by cutting up a page of a book (I don't know what the book had done to deserve this), scattering the words on the lawn, and throwing a knife at them. Marmalade was a surname - Uncles's mother was Lily Marmalade.

[landingtree]

The story I remember was that 'Paddling' originated because of what the cat did when placed in a bathtub, and that 'Uncles' was the random selection. But it's been years and years since you told us that, and my memory could have done all kinds of things with it.

Also, it has been stifling hot here for the last three days, so we've had the opportunity to see what Riddle/Pickle does when the house is all aflutter with moths. 'Hyper' no longer seems doubtful. She jumps at least as high as she is long, and will leap up onto and off the side of beds and sofas as though doing parkour. If she's given multiple inaccessible moths to look at her gaze follows them so fast it looks like she's been hooked up to the mains.