It's the cat's (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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Or the cat's meow.

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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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> >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 sdaÊ"daÊ" gÊ·É~ɬ dibÉ~ɬ lÉ~Å¡ucid
> Ê"acaciɬtalbixÊ·:
> >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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