"hot dog" article, 1913; catfish/cat

[James A. Landau]

In a message dated > Wed, 22 Oct 2003 21:11:22 -0500, Gerald Cohen
> gcohen at UMR.EDU> wrote (inter alia):
>
>  "Cat" can mean
> "catfish"; cf. "There's more than one way to skin a cat." It's known
> that the reference here is to a catfish, not a feline.

or perhaps to a sleeping cow, since "catskinner" is a slang term for a
bull-dozer operator---a linguistic blend (?) of "Caterpillar tractor" (gee, still
another animal) + "muleskinner".

           - Jim Landau