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The Scots, however, are not scot free.
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Does this mean that to work for the IRS one must be scatterbrained?HA! Max, you have hit the nail on the head! The tax, rather... 
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...The very large number of Norsemen unwilling to accept this fled and conqured new kingdoms... and impose thier own *taxing. 
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I did some more research on this word, Dr. Bill and discovered that cats are deathly afraid of taxes. The mere mention of taxes sends them scurrying away to seek shelter.
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faldage, you may be a bit confused, and words jumbled in your head into odd patterns:
cats are deathly afraid of taxes
perhaps cross-threading thoughts of Climax led you to "catastasis"
cats are deathly afraid of taxes ... sends them scurrying away to seek shelter.
nay: cats are deathly afraid of taxidermists, and their shelters are cat-houses (rather differently cross-threading to Climax).
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cats are deathly afraid of taxidermists,
Yes...and especially catsidermists!
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I'm tempted to say "get stuffed". In a taxi.
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per bartleby, taxes appear to be linked to cats, dogs, and sheep:
taxonomy: Division into ... categories.
and reciprocally:
category: from Greek katgori, = accusation, charge. a charge, reminiscent of a tax
more animal found by bartlebying "category" back further:
category: kat-, kata-, = down, against; see cata– + agoreuein:
A) cata–: directs us to: kat- ... Suffixed form ... from Latin catulus, young puppy, young of animals (“dropped”).
B) agoreuein: bartleby directs us to ger- DEFINITION: To gather.
-1) extended form from Old English crammian, to stuff, cram reminiscent of "taxidermy"
-2) Reduplicated form ... from Latin grex herd, flock enter the sheep!
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Furthermore, sheep include ewes, and yews are [botanically] taxus.
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