It's the cat's

[Scot LaFaive]

I'm guessing it's the cat minus his pajamas.

Scot LaFaive


>From: Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM>
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>Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:49:43 -0700
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>I don't have access anymore to databases, so I hope this is an
>interesting citation:
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>...It's a Japanese house on the hill side. Gosh, what a view. This
>island is all the books say it is, and then some. Honest, it's the cat's.
>
>This was written on March 21, 1929 by T. T. Waterman in a personal
>letter, cited in sdaʔdaʔ gʷɘɬ dibɘɬ lɘšucid ʔacaciɬtalbixʷ:
>Puget Sound
>Geography: Original Manuscript from T. T. Waterman. Edited with
>additional material from Vi Hilbert, Jay Miller, and Zalmai Zahir.
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