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what is a jellicle cat!?!?

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alright this just isn't funny anymore. what on earth does jellicle mean? or supposed to mean or refer to??? all these damn Cats websites keep giving me the run around about it!
what a cruel and unusual word!
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Re: what the hell is a jellicle cat!?!?

The 'Jellicle Cats' were the cat tribe in CATS! the musical. It doesn't have any other meaning (kinda like Schpidoinkle day or frumious bandersnatch).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellicle
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can't help myself





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Quote:
Originally Posted by Garrett Lundy
Schpidoinkle day

Great. Now I'm going to have that song in my head ALL day!

The sky is blue and all the leaves are green.
The sun's as warm as a baked potato...
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....resist........r..r..resiiiist................. ..I THINK I KNOW PRECISELY WHAT I MEAN, WHEN I SAY IT'S A SCHPIDOINKLE DAAAAAAAY!!!!!
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I always figured "jellicle" was supposed to bring to mind the word angelical.
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Peter:

You would have done better to simply do a Google search or visit Wikipedia than bother searching on cat sites. If you had, you would have found your answer (including the actual origin and meaning of "jellicle") in a couple of mouse clicks:

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The Jellicle cats, or simply the Jellicles, are a type of feline mentioned in T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.

Introduced in his poem Song of the Jellicles, they were originally depicted by Eliot as common black-and-white cats whose daytime nature is peaceful, pleasant and restful — but who possess an active love of nightlife. Specifically, Eliot mentions that they like to gather at an event called the "Jellicle Ball"...


The name jellicle comes from a previously unpublished poem by Eliot entitled "Pollicle Dogs and Jellicle Cats", where jellicle cats is a corruption of dear little cats and pollicle dogs of poor little dogs. It also appears in the musical Cats in the song "Jellicle Song for Jellicle Cats". -- Wikipedia entry on Jellicle Cats


Regards,

Joe
post #9 of 14

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But then we wouldn't have seen the anaconda cat!
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Originally Posted by Marianne
But then we wouldn't have seen the anaconda cat!

Or the lost Mapquest cat. That one is too funny Scott!
post #11 of 14

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The word is used in Logan's Run too- the old guy quotes parts of the poem.
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Ahh, damn. I was going to mention that. I was just watching Logan's Run a couple of weeks ago.
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'Cause Jellicle's can and Jellicle's do!
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Originally Posted by Scott L

I missed that and had to scroll back to see it. CLASSIC!
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