"katysails" wrote:
MC just prattles on and on:
They're not Felix Domesticus Kook.

Cat studies show that felix domesticus...snip...

Just to get some use out of my expensive classical education and FYI,
they're not happy (felix) domestics, they're feline (felis) domestics.
Katy, you should know better. Blame it on your typing?

Framk chided: Katy, you should know better. Blame it on your typing?

Nope...I cut and psted it out of the great Ph.D.'s posting....I try not =
to correct him on these things because it tears away at his ego so badly =
and I can't stand that kind of suffering.

--=20
katysails
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"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein

Good idea. Wouldn't want to mix Felix domesticus with Felis Catus would we?

:-P

Cheers MC

katysails wrote:

Framk chided: Katy, you should know better. Blame it on your typing?

Nope...I cut and psted it out of the great Ph.D.'s posting....I try not to correct him on these things because it tears away at his ego so badly and I can't stand that kind of suffering.

MC replied: Good idea. Wouldn't want to mix Felix domesticus with Felis =
Catus would we?

Felis domesticus
Noun 1. Felis domesticus - any domesticated member of the genus Felis
domestic cat, Felis catus, house cat
Felis, genus Felis - type genus of the Felidae: true cats and most =
wildcats


katysails
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"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein

Yes. The strange thing is that there thousands of references calling the
cat Felix Domesticus -even in a review in Nature. Could it be that the
cat is evolving into a happier creature?

Cheers

katysails wrote:

MC replied: Good idea. Wouldn't want to mix Felix domesticus with Felis Catus would we?

Felis domesticus
Noun 1. Felis domesticus - any domesticated member of the genus Felis
domestic cat, Felis catus, house cat
Felis, genus Felis - type genus of the Felidae: true cats and most wildcats


katysails
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"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein

MC mused:=20

-- Yes. The strange thing is that there thousands of references calling =
the=20
cat Felix Domesticus=20

Just semantics...that's all....
katysails
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"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein

How do you know that?

Cheers

Frank Maier wrote:


they're not happy (felix) domestics