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It has been argued, however, that the Cheshire Cat was an invention of Carroll's...
In Carroll's childhood church (in cheshire) there is a carving on some point of the church-- with a smiling cat-- and as you move (closer? farther away?, to the side?) the cat seems to disappear, but the smile remains..
this was in some annotated volume of Alice in wonderland.. Perhaps someone who has a more information could add to this..
(Not that the whole isis theory isn't interesting, David...)
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<<(Not that the whole isis theory isn't interesting, David...)>> nor carved tooth kill the allegatory, nor churchmouse bell the cat the cheshire cat in stone memorialized recalls a cat that never was but was or not, what nonce cat never came when called? 
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What are you on, David - and is it legal?
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Contact me back channel and we'll see what we can work out.
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The whole windbag discussion on isisitude reminded me of some great lines from the movie Barcelona, in which one character (A - a bit of a self-serving ass) is complaining to another (B - his nice cousin) about how people talk about books, and says (paraphrased freely, but with the intent intact):
A: Why do people always talk about the subtext? It's always subtext this and subtext that! They never talk about the words on the page! Do they even have a word for that?
B: It's called the text.
The isisists might merit similar puncturing.
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What are you on, David - and is it legal?Who cares - gimme! 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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I love this word!! Makes up for all your past painful/punful transgressions, inselpeter. 
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neutron development, or neutron renewal -- the practice of displacing the poor or working-class residents of an urban neighborhood in preparation for its occupation by professionals.
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Cheshire Cat info...from Excite Search...Source: Brewers Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. "The phrase has never been satisfactorily explained, but it has been said that Cheshire cheese was once sold moulded like a cat that appeared to be grinning. The waggish explanation is that the cats know that Cheshire is a county palatine (properly the dominion of an earl palatine over which he had quasi-royal jurisdiction) and find the idea a source of amusement".
This etymology is seconded in Dictionary of Word Origins, Jordan Almond: he says the phrase is from Ireland, where cheeses once sold in Cheshire County were molded to look like cats, and the cats had very broad grins.
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