I'm Feeling a Little TwitterPetted
by Stephen Peters and Mike Selinker
Answer: PICKWICK
Each pet has four quotes. The first letters of the quartet scramble to spell the name of the pet's owner, minus one letter. Those letters, in the order of the matching email addresses, spell NAME FOR THURSDAY NEXT'S DODO, or PICKWICK.
- WENDY Darling (petes_girl) - Nana (dog from Peter Pan)
- Well, since he's left his shadow behind, I'll just put it here on the windowsill.
- Egad! The children have flown away!
- Darlings! Time for bed!
- You can put me outside away from the nursery, but I don't have to like it!
- OSCAR the Grouch (pbs_hater) - Slimey (worm from Sesame Street)
- Over this wall lives a giant bird, but he hasn't eaten me yet!
- Sometimes living in a trash can is awesome!
- Clarinet-playing would be a lot easier if I had arms, but I get by.
- Reports say I'm the first annelid on the moon!
- MILES O'Brien (killarney) - Chester (cat from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
- I get the feeling that I know this girl. Did the little one get caught in a time bubble?
- Life on a space station can be kind of dull. And I don't think the Japanese lady likes me.
- Ever miss your old life? I miss Bilby.
- So, I guess this Irish-sounding guy is my new master?
- ALICE Liddell (pleasance) - Dinah (cat from Alice in Wonderland)
- A bat for dinner? No, and they don't eat us either.
- Let me chase that rabbit down the hole!
- I don't get it. One moment you were ten inches tall, the next you were ten feet tall!
- Cats normally are more than just a smile, so I don't think that was a cat.
- JAFAR (the_viz) - Iago (parrot from Aladdin)
- Just great. The Sultan's feeding me more of these nasty crackers.
- Awk! I'm just as scurrilous as my Shakespearean counterpart.
- Aren't I supposed to be a jungle bird?
- Rugs fly too? Dang! Watch the feathers, huh?
- Dr. Gregory HOUSE (bedside_man) - Steve McQueen (rat from House)
- Hooray for being named after a macho Hollywood actor!
- Unless I miss my guess, I think I'm being used for experiments.
- Secondhand smoke can give me mycoplasmosis? Who knew?
- Extermination safety tip: If you want to avoid being offed, demonstrate a weird neck tilt to the obsessive physician...
- Kitty PRYDE (mutie_lover) - Lockheed (dragon from X-Men)
- Please let today be the day I get to breathe fire on someone.
- Yeah, I'm not exactly as big as Smaug. You got a problem with that?
- Dammit! She phased through the wall again!
- Every day, the blue freak teleports around the house. What a stench!
- Jonny QUEST (bentons_kid) - Bandit (dog from Jonny Quest)
- Quick, somebody save me from this ghost cat!
- Unfortunately, it looks like we have to rescue the Doctor again!
- Evidently, the boy from Calcutta has strange powers.
- Some people confuse me with a raccoon.
- HARRY POTTER (scarface) - Hedwig (owl from Harry Potter)
- Adam QUARK (space_trash) - Ergo (protoplasm from Quark)
- Question: Is the science officer a man or a blond artichoke?
- Are the pilots scantily clad twins, or scantily clad clones?
- Right... just because I'm a gelatinous blob doesn't mean I don't know what's going on.
- Killing the captain would be preferable to being his pet.
- CLARK Kent (phone_booth) - Krypto (dog from Superman)
- Come on, throw the stick! I'll bet I can fetch it somewhere over the Atlantic!
- Let me get this straight: I'm teammates with a cat, a horse, a monkey, and some sort of protoplasm?
- Actually, the cape is kind of annoying, now that you mention it.
- Keep that green rock away from me!
- Dr. ISAAC Kleiner (resistance_doc) - Lamarr (headcrab from Half-Life 2)
- If I still had my beak I'd *totally* turn this guy into a zombie.
- A teleporter? Neat! I always wanted to go on a birdwatching trip to the desert!
- Aha! This looks like Arne’s rocket! Outer space, here I come...
- Catch me if you can, Alyx.
- Conrad VEIDT (alex_the_great) - Bubastis (mutated lynx from Watchmen)
- Very nice food, doomed Asian valet guys.
- Every time we come to Antarctica, I get tasty penguins to eat!
- I have a bad feeling about following this big blue guy into the tachyon generator.
- That guy in the blotty mask creeps me out.
- WILMA Flintstone (stone_age_gal) - Dino (snorkasaurus from The Flintstones)
- Watch out with that club, little neighbor boy!
- I wanna bronto-burger!
- Look out, buddy, or I'll turn you into a fossil!
- May I drive the car? I have four feet I could power it with!
- ELROY Jetson (boy_of_george) - Astro (dog from The Jetsons)
- Eep opp ork ah-ah! Man, that's catchy!
- Let's skip the treadmill and go for a ride in the flying car!
- Rello! (Oh, right, I don't need to use my speech impediment online.)
- Originally my name was Tralfaz, but I prefer this name.
- PENNY (starlet) - Bolt (dog from Bolt)
- Pigeons told me a bad, bad cat was in this alley.
- Every superhero needs a sidekick. (Mine's a hamster.)
- Never underestimate the power of heat vision! Hey, why doesn't it work out here?
- You will lead me to the evil doctor now, villainous feline!
- Lt. ELLEN Ripley (amandas_mom) - Jones (cat from Alien)
- Look at the size of those teeth—inside those other teeth!
- Lady, why are you stripping down to your underwear when one of those things is on the loose?
- Each time she puts me in this box, it feels like I'm asleep for years!
- Nobody from the rest of the crew is going to feed me anymore, are they?
- BOXEY (troy) - Muffit II (cyborg daggit from the original Battlestar Galactica)
- Bark bark! Watch out for the evil metal robot!
- Oh, I wish I were a *real* furry, doglike creature.
- Earth may seem lost, but I’m sure that we'll find it one day.
- You ain't putting me in that Viper!
- Stan SMITH (cia_stud) - Klaus (goldfish from American Dad)
- Ski-jumping is my life. Well, it was...
- Mr. Limpet's a moron. I wish I *weren't* a fish...
- I was just swimming in my bowl, minding my own business… Why don’t you ask the alien where *he* was?
- Hey, Francine. Want me to slip you some fin?
- SHE-RA (princess) - Spirit (horse from She-Ra)
- Horse? Yes, I'm a horse. Well, not just a horse...
- Etheria ain't seen nothin' yet.
- Ride me all you want—just be more careful with that magical sword while you’re doing it. Ow!
- A trooper is no match for me! Eat hooves, Evil Horde!
- TEDDY (raj_lad) - Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (mongoose from The Jungle Book)
- Tip of the day: "Monsoon" is short for "Mon, soon we get the heck out of here!"
- Eggs... gonna find me some eggs if it kills me...
- Deadly cobras 0, good guys 1. Who's hissing now, punk?
- Yo! Dude with shotgun! I'm workin' over here!
- Doc Emmett BROWN (great_scott) - Einstein (dog from Back to the Future)
- Blasted forward in time a whole minute. Thanks, Doc.
- Run! Terrorists in the parking lot!
- Why do I have to stay in the suspended animation kennel while you go to 1955?
- Naming me after a scientist was a nice touch.
- Walt LLOYD (comic_reader) - Vincent (dog from Lost)
- Locke made a whistle. It sounds really nice.
- Led the big guy to this van in the middle of the jungle; later he went for a drive with the rock star.
- Ouch! The big plane crashed on some island, but I managed to survive!
- Y'know, I have no idea why they buried those two people. They're not dead, just paralyzed.
- The JOKER (laugh_riot) - Giggles (hyena from The New Adventures of Batman)
- Just give the clown the money, and nobody gets... well, everybody gets hurt, actually.
- Kill 'im, boss, before the cops get here! Heee heee!
- Each night, I lie awake thinking that one day I’ll be replaced by my speciesmates Bud and Lou.
- Robin's chirping drives me ca-ray-zee! One big bite’ll fix that problem...