Why do we say "copycat" anyway? Cats don't copy!

[AlienGirl]

I've never seen a cat copy anyhing, have you?

Tucker

[flowomo]

1. One answer to that:

from a random website:
Cat has been used to refer contemptibly to people at least as far back as Shakespeare's time ("A pox upon him for me, he’s more and more a Cat", in All’s Well That Ends Well. It was simply paired with copy to refer to someone who mimicked another's actions. Copycat made its first known appearance in writing in 1896: "I ain’t heard of a copy-cat this great many years..’twas a favorite term o’ my grandmother’s" in S. O. Jewett's Country of Pointed Firs.

[Paradise]

2. delete (dupe) :)

[Don_G]

3. I Don't Know

My cat found Ctrl "P" walking across my keyboard once.

[arwalden]

6. I Hope He Can Control-P

At least until he gets to the litterbox.

-- Allen

[havocmom]

4. EEEOOOOOOWWWWW! Tucker!

Glad to see your post. Been fretting about you and hoping you are spunky!

[Canuckistanian]

5. Phsaa! They can't even fax