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Unread 05-01-2004, 22:37
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Question Does anyone know?

I am curious... does anyone know why curiosity killed the cat?
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Re: Does anyone know?

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I am curious... does anyone know why curiosity killed the cat?
Didn't I tell you not to look into this?

Especially this particular week... ruh roh!
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Re: Does anyone know?

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I am curious... does anyone know why curiosity killed the cat?

Ignorance killed the cat, curiousity was framed.

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Re: Does anyone know?

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Ignorance killed the cat, curiousity was framed.

Tom
haha.

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Re: Does anyone know?

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Ignorance killed the cat, curiousity was framed.

Tom

Wait a min.......which cat?

*attempts to count world population of cats, looses track and walks away*
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Re: Does anyone know?

It was really the dog... but shhhhh, they'll come and get me if they hear I've told you about the..... *computer idles*
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Re: Does anyone know?

[panic]looks for cats [/panic]...... good they are all here.
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Re: Does anyone know?

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It was really the dog... but shhhhh, they'll come and get me if they hear I've told you about the..... *computer idles*
I named our German Shepherd Curiosity when I was little. This was my parent's first clue that I was a strange kid.
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According to The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, ...

... Third Edition. 2002.: "This expression apparently first appeared in print in an O. Henry story in the early 1900s."

Anybody know what story that would be?
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Re: Does anyone know?

I thought Curious George killed the cat?!
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Re: Does anyone know?

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I named our German Shepherd Curiosity when I was little. This was my parent's first clue that I was a strange kid.
Before then, they just hadn't been paying attention
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Don't forget... Satisfaction, that wonderful EMT, revived the cat... so the charge was only attempted murder.

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