Talk:All Ball

AfD

This page was voted on for deletion at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/All Ball. The consensus was to keep it. dbenbenn | talk 00:32, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Grammar fixing

*All Ball lived with Koko until he escaped from her cage and was run over by a car in December of that year.

This sentence could use some restructuring. Although he refers to All Ball, it's hard to tell since the pronoun Koko confuses this fact slightly. -- AllyUnion (talk) 01:25, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Stub?

Does this need to be a stub? It isn't that long, but that is about all there is to say about him. Maybe someone knows aho old AB was, but a full article doesn't need everything. I'm just asking because I don't want it to seem like a full article when it isn't. Howabout1 21:48, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

It should be merged with Koko_(gorilla)#Koko.27s_cats — Omegatron 23:27, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Gorilla rhymes

Did Koko pick the name 'All Ball' for her cat because it rhymes? Sign language doesn't 'rhyme', per se, but when the good Dr. talked to Koko it rhymed. Did Koko recognise this? (13 March 2005)

This is not really something that could be answered by anyone other than Koko, and - the question of how adept her language skills really are aside - I don't think she's ever been taught the concept of "words that rhyme". Furthermore, you'll note that her later kittens did not have rhyming names. DS 13:18, 19 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I speculate that the term may have been Koko's reaction to the kitten's lack of a tail and thus having a more rounded overall shape; or perhaps her attempt to state that the curled-up kitten was all balled up. Or it could have been mere babbling. LeoO3 20:50, 22 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I speculate that Patterson made it up. Chrisrus (talk) 03:28, 17 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Newer cats

I assume Smokey and Lipstick are no longer with us. Has she gotten any new cats in recent years? Jon Hart 05:17, 5 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Haha. Smokey was the name of my old cat. :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.45.83.129 (talk) 21:57, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merge 2007

It should be merged with Koko_(gorilla)#Koko.27s_cats — Omegatron 23:27, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The All Ball AfD from Feb 05 shows 7 keep, 6 merge.. pretty close I guess. Personally I said keep - but would admit to a decision based on emotion. :)--Bookandcoffee 23:46, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'd rather it wasn't merged. Tlogmer ( talk / contributions ) 21:14, 25 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cried for two days

I removed the following sentence from the article:

It has been said that Koko cried for two days after the event.^{[citation needed]}

The citation request had been attached to it for a year with no source provided. —CKA3KA (Skazka) (talk) 19:12, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Non sequitur

What the hell is that story about the basketball player using extraterrestrial skills to teach...people basketball? Delete that. This unsigned comment was added 05:26, December 11, 2008 by User:160.39.190.112