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#182885 - 02/24/09 10:13 AM Cat Idiom
sbd stranger Registered: 02/24/09 Posts: 1	What is the origin and meaning of "be the Cat's Whiskers?" I've heard of this saying but its seldom used in the USA.
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#182886 - 02/24/09 10:57 AM Re: Cat Idiom [Re: sbd]
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10472 Loc: this too shall pass	it's simply the best; in the U.S., see the cat's pyjamas
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#182899 - 02/24/09 03:29 PM Re: Cat Idiom [Re: tsuwm]
BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 5249 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague	So a flapper is a girl who never flounders?
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#182900 - 02/24/09 03:30 PM Re: Cat Idiom [Re: tsuwm]
olly old hand Registered: 12/18/06 Posts: 933 Loc: Auckland, New Zealand	Well, thats just 'The Bee's Knees'. You may need an Entomology dictionary.
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#182901 - 02/24/09 04:23 PM Re: Cat Idiom [Re: olly]
BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 5249 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague	I like the gnat's elbow. How will it manage to cling to cat's whiskers.
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#182906 - 02/24/09 07:24 PM Re: Cat Idiom [Re: BranShea]
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13667	Accompanied by the cat's meow.
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#182910 - 02/24/09 09:03 PM Re: Cat Idiom [Re: olly]
latishya enthusiast Registered: 11/24/07 Posts: 390 Loc: कहीं &...	Originally Posted By: olly Well, thats just 'The Bee's Knees'. You may need an Entomology dictionary. Perhaps Douglas Adams had one? Quote: This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world. Edited by latishya (02/24/09 09:03 PM)
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#182933 - 02/25/09 12:46 PM Re: Cat Idiom [Re: latishya]
dalehileman Pooh-Bah Registered: 07/10/05 Posts: 1773 Loc: Apple Valley, CA, USA	Note in passing: "Catwhisker" is also a reference to the wire contact of and eventually the entire early semiconductor device, a rectifier or diode used as "detector" in early earphone radios But here's something that isn't generally known: In 1930 the year I was born an ingenious fellow inventor added a second catwhisker, devising what was actually the first point-contact transistor. However it was not recognized as such until decades later. This patent is so obscure that unless you're much more adept than I at Googling you might spend all morning attempting to confirm it Part of the difficulty arises from five or six different spellings of "catwhisker" and partly on Mac's massively incompetent search algorithm but I guarantee if you ae more persistent than I you will find it Coincidentally as if to confirm Mac's software incompetence he doesn't recognize "ae" above as a misspelling of "are" _________________________ dalehileman
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#182958 - 02/26/09 03:26 AM Re: Cat Idiom [Re: dalehileman]
Zed Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/27/02 Posts: 2154 Loc: British Columbia, Canada	My Mac caught it but maybe she is more competent than your he Mac.
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#182961 - 02/26/09 03:51 AM Re: Cat Idiom [Re: Zed]
BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 5249 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague	He Macs take offense more easily.
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