Official kitten names

We took the nine remaining name pairs and had each member of the family rank them from 1 to 9 for preference. Then we added them all together and compared the resulting order, did the same thing dropping the highest ranking from each pair, and the same thing dropping the lowest rankings. The clear winner was ... (drumroll) ... Lito and Hernando. It wasn't anyone's first or last choice, but came out top in every sort. Rosa is a bit disappointed, as she had given that pairing a 7, but her rankings were so different from everyone else's that it was inevitable.

I was telling my work friend Amanda about this process and described it as 'ignoring the East German judge'. And then I had to explain about the Olympics in the 80's, biases of "western" vs "communist" judges, and the way gymnastics and figure skating are scored to reduce the influence of biased judging. The things that today's young people don't know because they didn't live through them! Amanda is about 32 or 34, but that fifteen years is enough to have no visceral connection to the Cold War era.