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2 months agoFrom reading the text, I speculate that Franklin was alluding to the preexisting saying as well – alluding to the cat in the dark as an accepted axiom.
From reading the text, I speculate that Franklin was alluding to the preexisting saying as well – alluding to the cat in the dark as an accepted axiom.
What do non-Americans think it is?
I was sure that Buddy had done this, in “Elf”, but I looked it up and that had been maple syrup. This looks even better.
That seems to illustrate the point that LadyLikesSpiders was making – quite nicely.
I don’t think that it actually answers your question, but I would like to point out that the sun is a mass of incandescent gas: a gigantic nuclear furnace.
They must have skipped yellow-pea/green-pea day in high school Biology.