The minister's cat was called Maulbeerbaums because he schatten there rather a lot.

Humble apologies to any German members here. It is late and I have had a hard day.

The minister's cat was called Norma because she acted like a Diva

Looks as if I had a harder day than I thought. I have missed out several letters. Oops! Would anyone care to fill in I, J, K and L?

And it was all going so well!

We'd better fill in the gaps before anyone notices (oops, cross post!)



The minister's cat was called Irving because he was born in Berlin


Edit: That's not strictly opera is it, I'll have this instead:

The minister's cat was called Intermezzo because he was a bit cavalier and was very rustic...

The minister's cat was called Jenufa. She changed her name by deed poll.

The minister's next cat was called Kate as it asked everyone to kiss her.

The minister's next cat was called La Favorite because everyone loved it best.

Phew! Did we get away with that?

I think so Let's carry on as if nothing's happened


The minister's cat was called Orpheus because he used to live with the neighbours from H3ll

The minister's cat was called Porgy because it had a girlfriend called Bess.

The minister's cat was called The Queen of Spades because she used to dig up all the daffodils

The minister's moon-gazing cat was called Ruselka.

The minister's cat was called Samson because his catawauling brought the house down

The minister's cat was called Thais because she no longer went for nights out on the tiles

The minister's cat was called Undine because she was most at home in the garden pond

The minister's cat was called Verdi because he was still in his prime in old age

The minister's cat was called Willard because he had white fur

The minister's cat was called Xerxes because he was a Persian cat

The minister's cat was called Yolanta because she was blind

Like Dulciana, I'm completely clueless about operas, so I'll leave further naming to someone else for now!

~Wobby~

The minister's cat was called Zauberflote but I've no idea why




Right that's opera out of the way, what are we doing next

Hmm... I would say a Science-based cat, but that depends on whether people know that better than Operas?

~Wobby~

The minister's cat was called Applicability because of his accuracy of micturition

(vaguely scientific)

The minister's cat was called Bunsen because he burnt the midnight oil

The Minister's cat was called Chlorine because she had the vapours

The ministers cat was called Dynamo because she was full of animal magnetism..

the minister's cat was called Electricity because she put a whole high-school class to sleep. (just how she did it, nobody knows).

The minister's cat was called fysics because she couldn't spell.

The ministers cat was called Gamma and she had a friend called Ray...

The Minister's cat was called Hydrargyrum, as he was as quick as quicksilver!

~Wobby~

The Minister's cat was called Indium because she had a brilliant luster and emited a high pitched sound when bent.

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(The Minister's cat game is very educational!)

The minister's cat was called Jet because he was fuelled to travel supersonically

*applause*

I prefer the following one, so I changed mine...

~Wobby~

The Minister's cat was called Kinetic because the force was with him.

The Minister's cat was called Leuc -o-cyte because he was red-blooded.

The minister's cat was called Mercury because Freddie treated him to a tincture of Bohemian Rhapsody

The Minister's cat was called Nucleon, because he had a brain the size of one!

~Wobby~

The minister's cat was called oxygen because he was hyperventilating

The minister's cat was called Plutonium because he was always blowing off

The minister's cat was called Quicksilver because he found it hard to contain himself.

The MInister's cat was called rock salt because the minister hadn't passed his chemistry exams

The minister's cat was called sodium chloride as he was a bit of a salty beast

The minister's cat was called Titanium because he was corrosion-resistant. (Aren't I clever... )

the minister's cat was called uranium because she made everyone around her ill.

The minister's cat was called Ventricle because he loved eating hearts

The Minister's cat was called Willis because he went round in circles (caused by eating all those hearts)

The minister's cat was called X-ray. He used to be called Gamma but he quarrelled with Ray.

The Minister's cat was called Ytterbium - as it is one of two chemical elements that starts with a Y (really scaping the barrel here)

The minister's cat was called Zygote because he only had one fertilised cell in his body.

(Yes, I'm scraping the barrel too...)

Can we be arty now please? What about Shakespearian characters?

*Goes off now to think of one that starts with A - unless somebody else gets there first!*

Good idea!

The minister's cat was called Aaron because he liked to wander on the moor.

The minister's cat was called Banquo because he had a dubious relationship with some guy called Macbeth.

The minister's cat was called Cleopatra because she died in the end.

The minister's cat was called Diana because she was well-meaning and and got things to end well

The minister's cat was called Emelia because her tail froze and fell off one cold winter's day.

The Minister's cat was called Falstaff because of the amount he ate

The Minister's cat was called Godfrey, because he was an atheist cat

The ministers cat was called Hamlet because he lived in a small village.

The minister's cat was called Iago because it liked to hide handkerchiefs.