Why do we say "copycat" anyway? Cats don't copy!
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Thu May-06-04 03:23 PM
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Why do we say "copycat" anyway? Cats don't copy! |
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I've never seen a cat copy anyhing, have you?
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Thu May-06-04 03:25 PM
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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.
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Thu May-06-04 03:43 PM
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Edited on Thu May-06-04 03:44 PM by Paradise
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Thu May-06-04 03:53 PM
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My cat found Ctrl "P" walking across my keyboard once.
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Thu May-06-04 05:28 PM
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6. I Hope He Can Control-P |
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At least until he gets to the litterbox.
-- Allen
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Thu May-06-04 05:00 PM
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4. EEEOOOOOOWWWWW! Tucker! |
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Glad to see your post. Been fretting about you and hoping you are spunky!
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Thu May-06-04 05:04 PM
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5. Phsaa! They can't even fax |
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