Cat Grows Wings

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Cat Grows Wings

Post by Stretch_Dude » Thu May 24, 2007 6:00 pm

I memorized "Holy Grail" really well
I can recite it right now and have you ROTFLOL
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Re: Cat Grows Wings

Post by Casper » Thu May 24, 2007 6:27 pm

God has obviously seen fit to wipe out flying fish!



Probably fake, but cool. ;D
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Re: Cat Grows Wings

Post by fellranger » Thu May 24, 2007 7:49 pm

Loadsa toxic waste in China.  ;)
So perhaps the whole winged Lisa thing isn't so far from the truth?
Well somebody had to say it...
There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning....
And that, I think, was the handle - that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting - on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave....
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark - that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

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Re: Cat Grows Wings

Post by archonix » Thu May 24, 2007 7:53 pm

No, it's a genuine phenomenon. The wings aren't real wings, they're just a weird sort of growth that some cats occasionally get. Oddly enough there's a wikipedia article on the subject that manages to be quite accurate. :)
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Re: Cat Grows Wings

Post by fellranger » Thu May 24, 2007 8:23 pm

Very interesting!  I wonder if it really is true that the Chinese cat has some sort of bone structure in it's "wings" as going by what the article says, this wouldn't be the case if it was cutaneous asthenia?
There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning....
And that, I think, was the handle - that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting - on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave....
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark - that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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Re: Cat Grows Wings

Post by archonix » Thu May 24, 2007 9:10 pm

More likely it's got a lot of cartilidge in there.
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Re: Cat Grows Wings

Post by Fionn » Sat May 26, 2007 4:28 am

Sparrows and dogs beware!
Hey you, out there in the cold,
Getting lonely, getting old,
Can you hear me?
Hey you, standing in the aisles,
With itching feet and fading smiles,
Can you feel me?
Hey You! Don\'t help them to bury the light.
Don\'t give in without a fight.

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Re: Cat Grows Wings

Post by sabrina_diamond » Mon May 28, 2007 9:08 am

YAY! Cats can flyyy... Wow, a Catangel... lol how can a male cat sprout wings genetically... Next time they'll say a human male... nevermind  :P
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