Reader David photographed this on his drive home yesterday in Nashville, Tennessee:
But southerners don’t call cats “moggies,” so it’s either somebody’s nickname, an epithet, or a transplanted Brit.
A swell license plate
August 22, 2014 • 10:01 am
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They do appear to have a picture of a cat on the trunk of their car. Maybe it’s an Anglophile Tennessean who just picked up the slang and likes cats.
I noticed the cats too, so I think this is a genuine cat slave.
Or at least a staffer.
M look more like dogs to me. Specially the one on the right.
It definitely is a cat on the driver’s side, note the upraised tail, and a dog on the passenger’s side.
Nashville is actually a fairly international city, certainly compared to the rest of Tennessee. The music business draws people from around the world, as do businesses such as Nissan, and universities such as Vanderbilt. There are transplants from around the country, such as myself.
Anyone run into the wonderful series of kids’ books called Meg and Mog?? Meg is a witch.
Yup, moggy is a nick-name given to a Morris Minor car,made in the 1940’s to the 1960’s. I owned 2 myself
Yeah, but that’s a Lincoln.
Same technological state for both.
(At least the Minor had a Lucas electric set. For you non Anglophiles – Lucas is also know as the prince of darkness.)
Also used to refer to Morgans. Their early three-wheelers were notoriously unstable, so when we were staff to a rather unstable cat, we call him Morgan the Moggie.
I agree it looks like two dogs.
Maybe they misspelled “Doggies.”