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#61965 03/22/2002 12:58 AM
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#61966 03/22/2002 1:44 AM
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Modern domestic cats are descendants of the African wild cat, a species which hominines have always co-existed with.
Cute, Max. Is hominines a real word?


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#61968 03/22/2002 2:31 AM
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"Homina, homina, homina!" -- Ralph Kramden


#61969 03/22/2002 2:47 AM
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Oh, no! I don't owe any cat anything!...My cat owes me! I am a true hominid, through and through...you'll never make a hominine out of me! "Gimme that old time idism! Gimme that old time idism! Gimme that old time idism! It's good enough for me!"

Of Australopithecines, their tools and weapons:
http://www.indiana.edu/~origins/teach/p200/p200notes1.20.html


#61970 03/22/2002 4:45 AM
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Is hominines a real word?

Sure. You grind 'em up and make grits. Right, AnnaStrophic?

Ohh, YART ahead! Buttered cats, levitation, etc.....


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Australopithecines

That's Australopithecids to you, O Great Lumbering Hairless one.


#61972 03/22/2002 2:55 PM
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That's Australopithecids to you, O Great Lumbering Hairless one.


Of course!...how could I commit such a treason? The Naked Ape is the only primate worthy of distinction!


#61973 03/22/2002 3:04 PM
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You grind 'em up and make grits*. Right, AnnaStrophic?

I know dat's right, honey!

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*Girl Raised In The South


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I wonder how the Dick Whittington and his cat legend got any believers.


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Whaddayamean....legend?


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Since cats were known for thousands of years in Egypt and elsewhere, it seems improbable that a single cat would have a high value in Morocco or Tunisia or wherever it was sold.
A pretty story, but perhaps not based on fact.



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