Meg has been asking personal questions of her readers lately in her blog forums, and the latest one is "are you a cat person or a dog person". I'm definitely a cat person.

Btw, has anybody noticed the dichotomy between popular representations of dog and cat people? Dog people, the cliché goes, are rugged, well-adjusted, extroverted, go-getting types (you could imagine Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan meeting in some romcom whilst walking their dogs in the park). Cat people, however, fall into a number of stereotypes: the crazy old lady, the misanthropic loner, the the moody teenager who writes woeful poetry by candlelight, and so forth; so much so that fondness for cats is a code for eccentricity, or mental instability.

Posted by: Graham | http://grudnuk.com | Sun Nov 25 22:26:51 2001

dog/cat is not a dichotomy. the opposite of cat is not-cat.

Posted by: TOBY | http://www.telegraphics.com.au | Mon Nov 26 09:23:25 2001

...re your pitch for Hanks/Ryan meet-and-fall-in-love-walking-dogs, it's been done: "Dog Park", horrendous, except for the appearance of Natasha "Species" Henstridge in an unexpected haircut. Normally wild horses couldn't drag me to see something like this, but it was an in-flight movie and I couldn't sleep.

Posted by: Graham | http://grudnuk.com | Mon Nov 26 10:28:16 2001

Erk. Sounds. Horrible, Toby. Actually, technically I'm a chicken person at the moment.

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