LostInSpace wrote:
Shimmy's pretty cute. Where did that name come from?
In the comic strip "For Better or For Worse," I guess one of the characters was in Alaska or something and got a kitten, and named it Shimsa, which means "little friend" in some Inuit language. My parents liked that, so they stole the name, but changed it to Shimmy. This was happening in the comic strip around the time that Bush got re-elected.