I think of this story everytime someone says there's more than one way to skin a cat.
My mom is the kind of person who looks elegant in blue jeans. The whole time I was growing up, she was very proper, strict, Miss Manners. I mean, I had charm school class..ick (it didn't take). Never cussed, always sat and walked and dressed and talked like a proper lady.

She told me this little interesting anecdote after I was grown. I still tease her with it occasionally (which she hates.) She grew up in Oklahoma for the first 10 or 11 years of her life. There was a boy on the neighboring farm she really liked. He found a dead cat (if you're squeamish,don't finish reading this post!)and was skinning it (can you say "ew!"?). My mom wanted him to like her, so she helped him skin the cat. I cannot for the life of me picture my mother skinning a cat. When I told her so and how gross I thought it was, she said, "Well, Laurel, the cat was already dead!" She really hates it when I remind her of this reply. lol.
footnote: she decided she didn't like the boy after all, because skinning a cat is a gross, messy, stinky business. Which meant the boy was a gross, messy, stinky business.

Cat skinning...nasty!

There's more than one way to skin a cat! Make her play a Lightfoot album...
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"The station is for travelers even you must ride someday"

Who would want to hurt this nice little pussy? They need their skin you know!
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"The station is for travelers even you must ride someday"

quote:Originally posted by stationmaster:
Who would want to hurt this nice little pussy? They need their skin you know!
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I agree!
( Laurel, what a completely gross story!)

heh heh, thx for that, lsh, i think i like yer mom and her stinky old pal, lol

why skin it, dead or alive? are there parts for salvaging, did they make a cap or soup or what? i think it needed to be buried with a prayer, skinned or not

i aint a cat lover or hater (i've had lots of farmcats but don't get along with the city ones too well, or they don't like me?)

even declawing them makes me feel a bit bad
well, i'll probably never listen to pussywillows and cattails again without thinking of this thread, poor lil' feller

Oh well, just thanks a load jj for making that connection for me. Never be able to listen to that song again. http://www.corfid.com/ubb/rolleyes.gif

And EWWWEEEEEEEEE Laurel! That boy would so have been off my date list faster than a tom can hiss and spit.


quote:Originally posted by jj:

even declawing them makes me feel a bit bad
well, i'll probably never listen to pussywillows and cattails again without thinking of this thread, poor lil' feller

My mom said he wanted to tan the hide, I mean this was Oklahoma in the 1940's. lmao.
The cat was dead, of course. I know my mom regrets telling me this. and yeah, she dropped that gross little boy quick.
I was in shock the first time I heard it, and now I just laugh and tease her with it.

ps. I don't know if he did end up tanning it, my mom quit in the middle of the job and left him to it. Can't blame her. Those farm kids!

[This message has been edited by LSH (edited August 10, 2004).]

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