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A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also jokes. https://www.patreon.com/ExistentialComics …

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    Existential Comics‏ @existentialcoms Oct 16

    That phrase "there is more than one way to skin a cat" is weird as hell. Where did it come from? At what point in human history were people skinning so many cats that everyone had multiple good techniques??

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      2. Jerome G Davis‏ @JeromeGDavis Oct 16
        Replying to @existentialcoms

        I think it refers to a time when unscrupulous butchers sold cat as rabbit. When I was a kid, butchers left the fur on one foot of each rabbit to show it wasn't cat.

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      3. Clitoral Niqab‏ @PubyWax Oct 16
        Replying to @JeromeGDavis @existentialcoms

        Here (Germany), rabbits are still sold with the head left on, supposedly to prove that they are not cats.

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      2. Sher Khashimov‏ @SherKhashimov Oct 16
        Replying to @existentialcoms

        I have the same Qs about the phrase “No room to swing a cat”. At what point in history did people swing cats to check how much space is available and why did we stop doing that?

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      3. S. E. Vidrio‏ @SEVidrio Oct 17
        Replying to @SherKhashimov @existentialcoms

        IIRC, that one comes from the "cat-o-nine-tails" whip that was used as punishment on ships back in the day. Gotta have space to give a proper whipping. So, when: c. 17/1800's; why stopped: society stopped approving such severe physical punishment.

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      4. Sher Khashimov‏ @SherKhashimov Oct 17
        Replying to @SEVidrio @existentialcoms

        Thank you! The explanation turned out to be darker than expected. Not sure now if I should research the origin of the Russian equivalent of this phrase (“no room to drop an apple”).

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      1. Machi Sagana‏ @machi_sagana Oct 16
        Replying to @existentialcoms

        I love my feedpic.twitter.com/mENaQ4j4pX

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      1. Benjamin Peylet‏ @BPeylet Oct 16
        Replying to @existentialcoms

        In french, you say "not enough to whip a cat" to mean "no big deal". So we also used to whip cats on a regular basis when a matter was deamed troublesome enough.

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      1. Robbert Dinero‏ @anphonyboloney Oct 16
        Replying to @existentialcoms

        Thankfully there's only one way to beat a dead horse.

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      2. Espen Svendsen‏ @EpsenSvendsen Oct 16
        Replying to @existentialcoms

        During the occupation, my uncle and his friends caught cats and sold the meat to German soldiers insisting it was rabbit meat. I bet he could comment in detail about this.

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      3. Espen Svendsen‏ @EpsenSvendsen Oct 16
        Replying to @EpsenSvendsen @existentialcoms

        I feel like specifying that this was a spectacularly bad idea, and that the only likely reason that they survived unharmed when this was found out was that the residents of occupied Norway was treated very differently from residents of e.g. occupied Poland. To put it mildly.

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      1. Andrew Beahrs‏ @ABeahrs Oct 16
        Replying to @existentialcoms

        It's from more than one way to skin a catFISH

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      2.  ♥‏ @sonotoridesu Oct 16
        Replying to @existentialcoms

        no no no everyone was skinning cats the same exact way and the person that said that wanted people to do it in other ways

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      2. Horned_Owl‏ @Horned_OwlJA Oct 16
        Replying to @existentialcoms

        Wittgenstein might have posed similar questions. "How would you know that there is more than one way? Have you skinned so many cats that you know this to be true?"

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      3. david matheson #FBPE‏ @drdjmath Oct 16
        Replying to @Horned_OwlJA @existentialcoms

        Look; don’t think. If I skin two cats in even very slightly different ways, then I can say truthfully that there is more than one way to skin a cat. I need not add a third way because that could amount to neoliberalism.

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      2. tilda with an e  🏴 🌹‏ @tilde_joy Oct 16
        Replying to @existentialcoms

        probably when they used them for things like catgut

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      3. Kyle‏ @Kyle_sleeps Oct 16
        Replying to @tilde_joy @existentialcoms

        Cattgut didn't actually come from cats, or was the intestines of sheep or horses apparently.

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      1. M_Cherry_315Ⓥ 🌹‏ @M_Cherry_315 Oct 16
        Replying to @existentialcoms

        I think I know who came up with that saying.pic.twitter.com/XhWm9nymoI

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      2. Rot Northrup validates your severed headcanon‏ @evilbobdayjob Oct 16
        Replying to @existentialcoms

        Etymology is always murky, but it might refer to catfish. The little bastards are like sharks with thick skins that have to be pulled off. 100-200 years ago there were dudes talking "LIFEHACK: you've been skinning cats wrong all your life. First nail the head to a tree, then..."

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      3. Rot Northrup validates your severed headcanon‏ @evilbobdayjob Oct 16
        Replying to @evilbobdayjob @existentialcoms

        Arguing over The Ultimate Way to skin a catfish like we argue over the best way to tie shoes or eat apples.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv_L9XcdgY0 …

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