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1 Oct 2024 15:22:38 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Phrases  
From: Bill Pragnell
Date: 7 Apr 2008 06:54:57
Message: <47f9fd81$1@news.povray.org>
andrel wrote:
> Bill Pragnell wrote:
>> Invisible wrote:
>>> Bill Pragnell wrote:
>>>> Invisible wrote:
>>>>> "there's more than one way to skin a cat". (Why in the name of God 
>>>>> would anybody wish to skin a cat??)
>>>>
>>>> If you're going to eat a cat, it's best to skin it first.
>>>
>>> ...which leads us to "why in the name of sweet purity would you want 
>>> to *eat* a cat?? There's no friggin' MEAT on it!"
>>
>> They must have at least as much meat as a rabbit. And rabbits are good 
>> eatin'.
>>
>> Incidentally, if you're in some foreign food bazaar looking at what 
>> look like skinned rabbits hanging up, there's a simple way to make 
>> sure they're not cats. Cats' kidneys are side-by-side across the 
>> spine, like ours. Rabbits' kidneys are also separated by several 
>> inches along the spine, asymmetrically.
>>
> 
> Why would you want to make the distinction? They taste much like rabbit, 
> or so I am told.

Well, many people are more squeamish about some animals than others. It 
wouldn't bother me particularly either but I thought it was interesting!


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