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unusual facts about The Cats


Cats U.K.

The group had to rename itself to Cats U.K. because of the existence of the Dutch band The Cats.



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Acoustic Kitty

Although it is not entirely clear on whether he is the originator of the concept, British author Len Deighton prefigured the concept of Acoustic Kitty in his novel, Billion Dollar Brain (1966), where the unnamed hero (Harry Palmer) notes that "Even the cats of East Berlin are wired" for sound recording.

Cyprus cat

The Cyprus cat is linked with the Byzantine monastery peculiarly named "St. Nicholas of the Cats" (Greek Άγιος Νικόλαος των Γατών), which was founded in the fourth century AD.

Gippsland phantom cat

Upon the end of the war, it is speculated that the pumas were released into the wild, somewhere in the Gippsland region (although some claim the cats were released in the Grampians National Park) where they subsequently bred.

It's the Pied Piper, Charlie Brown

It's the Pied Piper, Charlie Brown is a retelling to Sally by Charlie Brown of the story how the Pied Piper of Hamelin (portrayed by Snoopy) chased away all the mice (changed by Charlie Brown from rats because, upon the story saying that the rats fought the dogs and killed the cats, Sally is terrified of rats) from the town of Hamlet.

John Bemelmans Marciano

The grandson of Ludwig Bemelmans, the creator of the children's book series Madeline, he has continued the series with two books written and illustrated in his grandfather's style: Madeline and the Cats of Rome and Madeline at the White House.

Kilkenny cat

A different soldier-based story tells that in the mid 17th century Oliver Cromwell's soldiers tied the tails of all the cats in Kilkenny in pairs of two and hung them over a wire.

Kilkenny–Tipperary hurling rivalry

This compounded an already poor start, when Eoin Kelly had already swept over three frees when Tipp stunned "the Cats" with a Lar Corbett goal in the tenth minute.

Kitty Kornered

Assuming the appearances of Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders cavalry (in reference to the then-popular film Arsenic and Old Lace), the cats charge at Porky and run him out of the house once and for all.

Major Boobage

Cartman hides Mr. Kitty in his attic and suggests that it "write a diary", and he also reluctantly hides many of the neighborhood cats (strangely, out of compassion for the cats, not out of his usual and initial greed.).

Munkustrap

He is also the protector and second in command of the cats, after patriarch Old Deuteronomy; and directs them in the "Awefull Battle of the Pekes and Pollicles".