It's the cat's

Hillary Brown hillaryhazelbrown at GMAIL.COM
Fri Mar 30 18:18:29 UTC 2007


Or his meow.

On 3/30/07, Scot LaFaive <spiderrmonkey at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> I'm guessing it's the cat minus his pajamas.
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> Scot LaFaive
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> >From: Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM>
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> >Subject: It's the cat's
> >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.
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> >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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