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Title: Dora's Meiville & Gary Seven's Isis, coinsedence? I think not!
Post by: mike837go on 19 Mar 2011, 12:59: Hi All,

Has anybody else noticed the similarity of Meiville and the cat Isis from the classic Star Trek episode Assignment: Earth?

Gary Seven spoke to Isis as if she understood english and he understood her mewing replies.

The only difference is that Meiville has yet to appear in human form, only once, to Terri Garr.

I originally thought that Meiville was Dora's familiar (daemon in animal form) from her Wicca/Goth days.

Any way of asking Jeph what he was thinking at the time? Or as usual, we'll just have to wait until a loose thread is tied up or just dropped. The same as the source of Pintsize's props....
Title: Re: Dora's Meiville & Gary Seven's Isis, coinsedence? I think not!
Post by: Kugai on 19 Mar 2011, 13:28: Meiville IS Isis :-D
Title: Re: Dora's Meiville & Gary Seven's Isis, coinsedence? I think not!
Post by: TheEvilDog on 19 Mar 2011, 13:55: No, they were formerly Siamese twins!
Title: Re: Dora's Meiville & Gary Seven's Isis, coinsedence? I think not!
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 19 Mar 2011, 14:09: Isis was somewhat better behaved.
Title: Re: Dora's Meiville & Gary Seven's Isis, coinsedence? I think not!
Post by: mike837go on 19 Mar 2011, 14:15: So, what you're saying is that they were separated at birth 37 years apart.

Actually, I think Isis was the supervisor and Gary was just the grunt worker.
Title: Re: Dora's Meiville & Gary Seven's Isis, coinsedence? I think not!
Post by: pwhodges on 19 Mar 2011, 14:17: As an irrelevant aside, the river Thames where it is passing through Oxford is known as the river Isis (historically a university oddity, I guess, but now enshrined in the Ordnance Survey's maps). Sadly, this is nothing to do with the god, but is simply another way of abbreviating the Latin name of Thamesis.
Title: Re: Dora's Meiville & Gary Seven's Isis, coinsedence? I think not!
Post by: Mr. Doctor on 19 Mar 2011, 14:45: I don't see how talking to your cat ( or any pet for that matter) is so unusual that it can't be a coinsedence....
Title: Re: Dora's Meiville & Gary Seven's Isis, coinsedence? I think not!
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 19 Mar 2011, 15:33: Having the cat talk back is less common.
Title: Re: Dora's Meiville & Gary Seven's Isis, coinsedence? I think not!
Post by: mike837go on 19 Mar 2011, 15:57: Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 19 Mar 2011, 15:33
Having the cat talk back is less common.

That's my point, exactly!

Isis reminds Gary how to open the missle engine and Meiville makes a request for Dark Side of The Rainbow.

Ah HA!

Now I have figured the Jeph out. The cats are a [not] coincidence. Just as the timing and musical choices of Dark Side of the Moon 'just Happen' to match the pacing and scene changes of The Wizard of Oz. It is 'just a coincedense' that we have two black cats that can hold 2-way conversations with their ostensible 'owners'.

Conspricy Therorists Rejoice!
Title: Re: Dora's Meiville & Gary Seven's Isis, coinsedence? I think not!
Post by: akronnick on 19 Mar 2011, 16:07: I'm pretty sure it's not a coinsedence. :police:

I'm also fairly sure that it's just a coincidence. :evil:

Lot's of people have conversations with their cats.

There are also cats that have their own blogs and twitter feeds.
Title: Re: Dora's Meiville & Gary Seven's Isis, coinsedence? I think not!
Post by: bicostp on 19 Mar 2011, 16:15: So does this mean Princess is Spot (Data's cat)?
Title: Re: Dora's Meiville & Gary Seven's Isis, coinsedence? I think not!
Post by: Carl-E on 19 Mar 2011, 23:28: All black cats are Mehitabel (http://www.donmarquis.com/archy/index.html).

At least, they are to me.
Title: Re: Dora's Meiville & Gary Seven's Isis, coinsedence? I think not!
Post by: mike837go on 20 Mar 2011, 14:57: Quote from: bicostp on 19 Mar 2011, 16:15
So does this mean Princess is Spot (Data's cat)?
Who is Princess? Fiction/Real? What human claims ownership?
Title: Re: Dora's Meiville & Gary Seven's Isis, coinsedence? I think not!
Post by: celticgeek on 20 Mar 2011, 15:21: Sven (http://questionablecontent.net//view.php?comic=877)
Title: Re: Dora's Meiville & Gary Seven's Isis, coinsedence? I think not!
Post by: Akima on 20 Mar 2011, 18:16: Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 19 Mar 2011, 15:33
Having the cat talk back is less common.
Cats often talk back, especially Siamese cats. It's just that we can't understand them.
Title: Re: Dora's Meiville & Gary Seven's Isis, coinsedence? I think not!
Post by: jwhouk on 20 Mar 2011, 19:37: Hey, speak for yourselves. My cat speaks back to me on occasion.
Title: Re: Dora's Meiville & Gary Seven's Isis, coinsedence? I think not!
Post by: akronnick on 20 Mar 2011, 20:33: I've never heard a cat speak per se, but their body language is unmistakable.

It's usually some variation of "Fuck off! I'm sleeping!"
Title: Re: Dora's Meiville & Gary Seven's Isis, coinsedence? I think not!
Post by: mike837go on 21 Mar 2011, 05:43: Quote from: bicostp on 19 Mar 2011, 16:15
So does this mean Princess is Spot (Data's cat)?

Actually Princess IS Ernst Stavro Blofeld's Solomon from the James Bond Fillms.

Check panel 2 of the strip: http://questionablecontent.net//view.php?comic=877

Besides, Spot is an orange tiger. Princess is a white persian. Close, but not quite.