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The Song Challenge:  The Man Who Wanted To Be King . . . Of The Jungle, That Is -- (August 2001) SAN DIEGO, CA. -- A San Diego computer programmer who has spent �100,000 on tattoos and plastic surgery to turn himself into a 'tiger' wants a fur graft.   ( Click here for his picture)  Dennis Smith is tattooed from head to toe with orange and black stripes and his teeth have been filed to needle point.  His fingernails have been crafted into sharp talons while his hands have tattooed markings like a tiger's paws.   He says he feels like a tiger.  The short back-and-sides he sported at the University of California has been replaced with a long orange mane.  He has also swapped his glasses for green contact lenses.  He has also had latex whiskers implanted and surgery to his lips so he has a permanent snarl.  He now wants a surgeon to graft tiger fur on to his skin, like a perma-wig.  Mr. Smith, who has changed his name by deed poll to Cat Man, said: "I have a collection of old tiger pelts from the days of hunting.  I want these grafted on to me.  It will cost another $100,000 but will be worth it.   When I have the coat of a tiger, I feel I will have reached my goal in life."  'Cat Man' admits "Of course people stare at me when I walk down the street, but that's the effect I desire.   For so long I have equated myself with the tiger that I decided to change myself into one."  "It's the real me.  So many men cross-dress without their partners knowing, or dress up and play cowboys or Civil War soldiers at weekends.   Me, I'm a tiger all the time and I love it.  I had my first tattoos done 20 years ago around my eyes and now my whole body is one pastiche of stripes and shading.  I am really proud of it all.".


Pelt Of the Tiger by DeRider (a/k/a Jack the Sailor)
(Tune:  Eye of the Tiger)

Pointed at, out in the street
Died his hair, got some tatoos
Got the whiskers, and some claws on his feet
He's a cat of a man with his pride

When you're insane, the options are vast
and surgeons will fall for your story
He's lost his grip but he's having a blast
Though not many people have tried

Chorus:
To have a Pelt of the tiger,
Grafted onto the skin
Having creepy cat fur in his navel
As the doctors revive him from the operation
And he itches like hell in the pelt of the tiger.

How can he face, all of the heat
Living in California
They laugh and point out in the street
But it's on ridicule that he thrives

with a Pelt of the tiger, Grafted onto the skin
Having cat leather cover his navel
As the doctors revive him from the operation
And he itches like hell in the pelt of the tiger.

Change of name, Be a catman
He got the graft and its gorey
From the distance, he's still just a man
Just a man who has bought his own lies

with a Pelt of the tiger, Grafted onto his skin
Having cat leather cover his navel
As he walks down the street people laughing at him
And he scratches like hell in the pelt of the tiger.

pelt of the tiger

pelt of the tiger

pelt of the tiger

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