What Does It Mean For A Cat To Be In A Cradle? - ...the curtains are closed, the cat's in her cradle.

[Vecr]

Cat's in the Cradle is also an entire song. Strange. Do people buy entire cradles for their cat?

 

[dick brain]

It means the cradle is otherwise unoccupied aka empty nest.

How did you not get that from the rest of the song?

 

[Vecr]

How did you not get that from the rest of the song?

I plead retardism. Cats and babies are both small, wouldn't both fit?

 

[Dysnomia]

Cat's Cradle is an old timey game that you played with string. Kids were more easily amused before technology.

The song is about a guy who has no time for his son while he's growing up. So when he's an old man and wants to spend time with him finally it's too late. His son is too busy. During the first part of the song the son keeps saying "I want to be like you dad". And then at the end of the song the now elderly father says to himself "My boy was just like me". It's a depressing song. The original version was by Harry Chapin. There's a pretty good cover by Ugly Kid Joe.

 

[Daddy's Angry Juice]

I plead retardism. Cats and babies are both small, wouldn't both fit?

Cat's Cradle is an old timey game that you played with string. Kids were more easily amused before technology.

The song is about a guy who has no time for his son while he's growing up. So when he's an old man and wants to spend time with him finally it's too late. His son is too busy. During the first part of the song the son keeps saying "I want to be like you dad". And then at the end of the song the now elderly father says to himself "My boy was just like me". It's a depressing song. The original version was by Harry Chapin. There's a pretty good cover by Ugly Kid Joe.

I always assumed it was about the fact that cats just sit on babies faces and accidentally suffocate them, but I think the real lesson here is that I am dumb and don't know what I'm talking about.

 

[Sparkletor 2.0]

I always assumed it was about the fact that cats just sit on babies faces and accidentally suffocate them, but I think the real lesson here is that I am dumb and don't know what I'm talking about.

I always heard it was fat women sitting on perverted men's faces and suffocating them.

 

[Daddy's Angry Juice]

I always heard it was fat women sitting on perverted men's faces and suffocating them.

That's "The Fat's in the '95 Civic with the Lonely Goon"

 

[dick brain]

That's "The Fat's in the '95 Civic with the Lonely Goon"

Gyatts in the cradle.

 

[Calandrino]

It's when there's a cradle and there's a cat in it.

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

I always assumed it was about the fact that cats just sit on babies faces and accidentally suffocate them, but I think the real lesson here is that I am dumb and don't know what I'm talking about.

That is an extremely old and disproven wives tale.

 

[Sparkletor 2.0]

That is an extremely old and disproven wives tale.

That's what big feline wants you to believe.

 

[Daddy's Angry Juice]

That's what big feline wants you to believe.

How big a feline and can I pet them?

 

[Sparkletor 2.0]

How big a feline and can I pet them?

Normal sized. And yes, you may pet.

 

[Daddy's Angry Juice]

Normal sized. And yes, you may pet.
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What is this a feline for ants?!