Wild guess...distinct tri-color patches (calico), vs. tweedy mix of two colors.
Sooner or later, you're gonna want it. And the second — the second — that happens, you know I'll be there. I'll slip in, have myself a real good day.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
beekaytee - Sep 05, 2007 11:51:41 am PDT #8550 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Lee - Sep 05, 2007 11:53:00 am PDT #8551 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I'm probably too old to build a pillow fort and hang a sign on it telling people to go away, aren't I?
Susan W. - Sep 05, 2007 11:54:01 am PDT #8552 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I'd always used calico for parti-colored cats with significant amounts of white and tortie for ones with little or no white. But if y'all and my Regency writers loop are to be believed, apparently I'm in the minority. Of course, the part-white ones usually are splotchy while the brown-black-gold ones are generally more tweedy.
Susan W. - Sep 05, 2007 11:54:49 am PDT #8553 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I'm probably too old to build a pillow fort and hang a sign on it telling people to go away, aren't I?
If all of us do it, maybe we can make it grown-up behavior.
Sparky1 - Sep 05, 2007 11:55:14 am PDT #8554 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
I'm probably too old to build a pillow fort and hang a sign on it telling people to go away, aren't I?
Yes.
You should build your fort out of bricks, and tie your sign to rocks that you lob at those who dare approach.
Zenkitty - Sep 05, 2007 11:55:28 am PDT #8555 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Calico vs tortie: I've always used the terms the way Susan does. The mostly-dark with veiny color, I always heard called brindle.
shrift - Sep 05, 2007 11:56:00 am PDT #8556 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
What's the difference between a calico and a tortoiseshell cat?
Generally, I think of a calico as white with patches of color, and tortoiseshell as darker with the colors all smushed together.
§ ita § - Sep 05, 2007 11:56:16 am PDT #8557 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
When the guy the cube over asks me Microsoft Project questions, I'm only surprised for a little. It's odd for me to realise he's coming to me with "Do you know this guy here? What does he do?" questions and I can answer them. I'm totally like an oldtimer.
Except around here? NSM. More that I'm just chatty.
Right. Resume work. Getting right on that.
DJ, you talk about your husband so sweetly. I just wanted to say that.
Jesse - Sep 05, 2007 11:58:25 am PDT #8558 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
You're never too old for a pillow fort.
Susan W. - Sep 05, 2007 12:00:12 pm PDT #8559 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
And wikipedia agrees with us all. Tortoiseshell is a brindle pattern, calico is splotchy with white, and there's a third pattern, tortoiseshell-and-white, for mostly tortie with white belly and paws, etc.