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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / November 2004Mischief, what are you doing?
Okay this was weird Mischief and Imp normally don't show any affection towards each other, like grooming or rubbing. They play every onec in a while, but mainly jut co-exist Well I fed them both this morning and Imp crossed in front of Mischief and started eating. Then I notice..........Mischief is licking his BUTT!!! I swear it was so weird, Imp is beant over trying to eat and his tail is high in the air and Mischief was just cleaning his butt. Then she stops and she goes to eat. Sheesh!! I guess it must have been dirty enough for her to just say, "Phew! Imp, that's it, just hold still.........." Weird.......... Kristi >Sheesh!! I guess it must have been dirty enough for her to just say, >"Phew! Imp, that's it, just hold still.........." > >Weird.......... > >Kristi Cats! Go figure! Suz Macmoosette Thank Heavens There's Only One =^..^= =^..^= =^..^= =^..^= =^..^= =^..^= Waiting for inspiration. Please hold while I contemplate my navel. |\__/| (=':'=) (")_(") >>Sheesh!! I guess it must have been dirty enough for her to just say, >>"Phew! Imp, that's it, just hold still.........." [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Cats! Go figure! > Suz Please help an English person. What does "go figure" actually mean? does it mean "think about it?" Tweed Tweed wrote: >>>Sheesh!! I guess it must have been dirty enough for her to just say, >>>"Phew! Imp, that's it, just hold still.........." [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >Please help an English person. What does "go figure" actually mean? does >it mean "think about it?" Yes, but it carries the flavor of going and thinking about something to which there is no real rational explanation or answer. "People do weird, self-destructive things to themselves. Go figure!" Hope that lets you home in on it a little, O J > Tweed wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > Hope that lets you home in on it a little, > O J Nope, sorry, still doesn't make sense. Thanks for trying. Tweed >> Tweed wrote: >> [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > >Tweed "Go figure" is a colloquial response to inexplicable behavior or phenomena. Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com >>> Tweed wrote: >>> [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] >"Go figure" is a colloquial response to inexplicable behavior or >phenomena. Similiar to who knew, or how strange its used more in the eastern US and pronounced go figah. Suz Macmoosette Thank Heavens There's Only One =^..^= =^..^= =^..^= =^..^= =^..^= =^..^= Waiting for inspiration. Please hold while I contemplate my navel. |\__/| (=':'=) (")_(") > > Tweed wrote: > > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Tweed Perhaps amore English version might be closer to "There's no way to tell what they will reckon the right choice." >Please help an English person. What does "go figure" actually mean? does >it mean "think about it?" > >Tweed I think it's just sort of a lazy way to say "Just try to figure that one out!" Sherry > >Please help an English person. What does "go figure" actually mean? > >does [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Sherry Oh. Thanks. (still not absolutely clear) I'm getting there, I think. Here, we don't use "figure" in the same way that you do. So, would "Try and understand this" come anywhere close? or not. Tina Un-American > Oh. Thanks. (still not absolutely clear) I'm getting there, I think. > Here, we don't use "figure" in the same way that you do. So, would "Try and > understand this" come anywhere close? or not. > > Tina > Un-American Yes, sure would. "Figure" is still used archaicly to mean "understand" or "reason". So "go figure" would mean roughly "see if you can understand this". >> Oh. Thanks. (still not absolutely clear) I'm getting there, I think. >> Here, we don't use "figure" in the same way that you do. So, would [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > or "reason". So "go figure" would mean roughly "see if you can > understand this". But it definitely has a rhetorical tone - it's really more a comment on the weird, inexplicable behavior than it is a literal suggestion to go and try to understand something. I think it's more like saying, "Who could possibly understand that??" Joyce >Oh. Thanks. (still not absolutely clear) I'm getting there, I think. >Here, we don't use "figure" in the same way that you do. So, would "Try and >understand this" come anywhere close? or not. > >Tina >Un-American Yes! You got it. Or in our part of the country, it's closer to "Figger this out." Sherry >Please help an English person. What does "go figure" actually mean? does >it mean "think about it?" That pretty much sums it up for me, though usually I think it's sort of sarcastic, more like it should be obvious if you just stop and think about it for a minute. It certainly isn't the sort of phrase I would have gotten away with as a kid if I'd said it to an adult. Sometimes, like OJ said, it's implies that there is no rational reason for what ever is going on.  SignatureSteve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky (RB) stouchst@JUNKsirinet.net [remove Junk for email] Home Page: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html Cat Pix: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/animals.html >>Please help an English person. What does "go figure" actually mean? does >>it mean "think about it?" > >That pretty much sums it up for me, though usually I think it's sort >of sarcastic, more like it should be obvious if you just stop and >think about it for a minute. Not in my neck of the woods-- it's said with a shrug of the shoulders, about the inexplicable. Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com > I swear it was so weird, Imp is beant over trying to eat and his tail > is high in the air and Mischief was just cleaning his butt. Then she > stops and she goes to eat. The submissive cat always grooms the dominant one. rachel >> I swear it was so weird, Imp is beant over trying to eat and his tail >> is high in the air and Mischief was just cleaning his butt. Then she [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >rachel This was *not* the case at all in my house. The domimant cat (Mimi) would have knocked Stinky's ears right off, if he tried to groom her. But he had to stay still to have his ears cleaned by her. Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com I'd have to disagree in this case, becasue Mischief is the QUEEN in the apartment. When she arrived and decided to stay, she made it very clear to Imp that she was going to be the one running things. I haven't seen her do it since, but I bet she just got tired of his butt being so smelly. :) Kristi |
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