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'Tis the season for top 10 lists
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Jim Mullen
JimMullenBooks.com
Updated: Dec 24, 2013, 12:21 AM
Published: Dec 24, 2013, 1:16 AM
It's that time of year again for all the Top 10 lists of movies you never saw, music you never heard, TV shows you never watched and books you never read.Not that you didn't try. You wanted to see that must-see movie all the critics were talking about but, like the rest of the movies on their Top 10 list, it never came to your town. Now you can't remember what it was called, just that it sounded wonderful.
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Where Did That Come From? - Cat Nap
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Stan St. Clair
Published: Mar 14, 2025, 1:19 AM
Well, I want to wish all my appreciated readers a happy St. Patrick's Day! At my age, I feel like I need a cat nap every day! Forms of this metaphoric expression have been used for 200 years to describe a short period of sleep during the day. Cats sleep long periods at a time, so it may seem strange to call it by this name. Some researchers say it started in Ancient Egypt when cats were sacred and Pharaohs began to emulate the way cats sleep. But there are no records to indicate that.
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