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Login/Join to ParticipateUnNatural Scientist - Currently working on a Breville-legged monkey
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Location: Bath Uni or Shrewsbury, UK
Curiosity killed the cat.
How exactly? When? I just started thinking about this in the shower, does anyone know about this cat? And I'm sure this isn't the only little saying that people use that doesn't make much sence when you think about it. Anyone know any others? Or better yet can anyone explain any others?
Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand and I can beat the world into submission.
1,489 posts
Location: state of confusion
i cant explain one, but i have one for you
There's more than one way to skin a cat
so apparently this "cat" really pissed someone off to the point that they claim its death, and found more than one way to skin it
You can't avoid pain by fencing yourself from it.
Some times you need the help of others more than anything else
But you have to let them close enough to help......
People want to be needed, I found that out too
UnNatural Scientist - Currently working on a Breville-legged monkey
757 posts
Location: Bath Uni or Shrewsbury, UK
"How the hell do you skin a cat?"
"Well, I can think of a couple, but which to choose?"
Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand and I can beat the world into submission.
1,489 posts
Location: state of confusion
and why? what did this "cat" ever do to us? why not a dog, or a lemming......they kill themselves any way.....
You can't avoid pain by fencing yourself from it.
Some times you need the help of others more than anything else
But you have to let them close enough to help......
People want to be needed, I found that out too
Pasta of Muppets
2,722 posts
Location: in the interwebs..., United Kingdom
theres not enough room to spin a cat?
Heard that one?????????????????
ohmygodlaserbeamspewpewpew!
Liquid Cow
2,629 posts
Location: High Wycombe, England
In my experience there's always enough room to swing a cat.
Most of the time though, after swinging one in a small space, you have an unprotesting subject for seeing just how many ways of skinning a cat you know.
But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.
ARRRR!
529 posts
Location: Charlotte, NC, USA
Apparently there is more than one way to skin a cat.
But this is still my favorite:
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"My skin is singed but it heals my heart and with glowing pride I'll wear my scars." -Davey Havok
UnNatural Scientist - Currently working on a Breville-legged monkey
757 posts
Location: Bath Uni or Shrewsbury, UK
Actually I know the swing a cat one. It meant "cat o'nine tails" a really nasty whip thing. It had something to do with slaves and the fact that the rooms (or whatever) they were in were so small there wasn't room for the slavers to swing the whip.
There's an interesting anti-cat theme delevoping in these sayings...
Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand and I can beat the world into submission.
1,643 posts
Location: ffidrac
Cats apparently, will not enter a space that is narrower than their whiskers... so i reckon that there was an exception to this rule, a cat too curious for it's own good, it crawled into a wall space after say... a mouse... or more likely the cheese on a mouse trap.... got stuck and died and that's how curiosity killed the cat.
i have no proof of this, i just made up that explanation (except for the first part, that is true.)
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if it makes no sense that's because it's NOn-sense.
247 posts
Location: Cork, Ireland at present
Kill two birds with one stone....????
I like to see that one done!
I used to be indecisive, but I'm not so sure now.....
member
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Location: Virginia, Vatican City
Are you kidding me with that picture?
Self-Flagellation Expert
3,414 posts
Location: Bogged at CG, Australia
thats why its fun to cut a cats whiskers off.
or wrap its feet in alfoil
or get it drunk, then cut off its whiskers, and wrap its feet in alfoil.
not that i do those sorta things.
"beg beg grovel beg grovel"
"master"
--FSA
"There was an arse there, i couldn't help myself"
--Rougie
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1,389 posts
Location: Guelph, ON, Canada
My host dad cut his cat's whiskers off when he was 5 years old and didn't know any better.... Apparently the poor thing was walking into walls for two days, and then went back to normal. And they looked at ME in disbelief when I said that my cat (dont have him anymore though) was de-clawed! Apparently there's something to do with animal rights and that. Anywho...
~ bobo
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515 posts
Location: Cyprus
We used to ave pursian cats an if there hair got all matted we had to get em shaved like that, so funny hehe.
My cat joey wouldnt leave the house cause he was embarrased lol!
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UnNatural Scientist - Currently working on a Breville-legged monkey
757 posts
Location: Bath Uni or Shrewsbury, UK
Raining cats and dogs.
Definately an anti cat theme in these sayings I'd never notice before...
Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand and I can beat the world into submission.
1,643 posts
Location: ffidrac
two heads are better than one.... BUT... too many cooks spoil the broth..... so where's the happy medium? or does it not matter because one lot are just cooking and the others are just thinking?
on the subject of cats> i really want to try that thing that jimmy carr suggested on the Channel 4 advert - putting smartites tubes on their legs and making them walk like robots... i was wondering if anyone has had any success (by which, i mean not got their eyes scrammed out) in doing so....
i don't think i need to cut my cats whiskers off they walk into things anyway
Aurinko freedom agreement reached 10th Sept 2006
if it makes no sense that's because it's NOn-sense.
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