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.

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.

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.

Calico vs tortie: I've always used the terms the way Susan does. The mostly-dark with veiny color, I always heard called brindle.

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.

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.

You're never too old for a pillow fort.

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.

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Thanks ita, he's a sweet boy, er mostly...usually.

ita, I thought for a minute you meant résumé work, but you didn't, right?