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334 points dcminter | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 09:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source

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codeulike ◴[04 Jul 25 13:06 UTC] No.44464190[source]▶

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See also previous Chief Mousers to the Cabinet Office, going back approx 100 years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_(cat)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_(cat)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilberforce_(cat)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peta_(cat)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_III_(cat)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_II_(cat)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_(cat)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Mouser

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_(chief_mouser)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_of_England

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1. ta1243 ◴[04 Jul 25 18:06 UTC] No.44466652[source]▶

> Humphrey was found as a stray by a Cabinet Office civil servant and named in honour of Humphrey Appleby, the archetypal civil servant of Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister.

Love it. Thatcher was famously a big fan of "Yes Minister"