“He was very fond of these delightful creatures, quiet, mysterious, with
their electric shiver, whose favourite attitude is the prone pose of the
sphinxes, which seem to have passed their secret on to them. They prowl
with velvet paws through the house, like the genius loci, or come and
sit down by the writer, keeping his thoughts company and gazing at him
out of the depths of their eyes, dusted with gold, with intelligent
tenderness and magical penetration. It seems as though cats divine the
thought passing from the brain to the pen, and as they stretch out a paw
they are trying to seize it on its way.”
—Théophile Gautier (1811-1872), on Baudelaire and his cats

“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and
cats.”
—Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)




















IMHO, some people here give Jeff far more attention than he deserves,
but obviously craves. The most appropriate response, and perhaps the
cruelest, IMO, is to simply killfile and ignore him. An alternative, if
you must, would be to post the same standard reply to his every post,
listing the manifold reasons why he ought to be ignored. Just my $0.02
worth.