Notice to my self

#LifeFootPrints Part63 Curiosity killed the cat

Pernah dengar ungkapan pepatah lama seperti itu?

Ini adalah asal muasal pepatah terkenal itu..

1. Sumber pertama jelaslah Mr. William Shakespeare yg amat sangat terkenal itu :

The earliest printed reference to the original proverb is attributed to the in his 1598 play, , which was performed first by .

...Helter skelter, hang sorrow, care will kill a cat, up-tails all, and a pox on the hangman.

Shakespeare used a similar quote in his circa 1599 play, :

What, courage man! what though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.

The proverb remained the same until at least 1898. included this definition in his Dictionary of Phrase and Fable:

Care killed the Cat.
It is said that "a cat has nine lives," yet care would wear them all out.

  2. Tranformasi pepatah ini mengambil jalan yang sangat lambat..

The origin of the modern variation is unknown. It is found in an Irish newspaper from 1868: "They say curiosity killed a cat once". An early printed reference to the actual phrase "Curiosity killed the cat" is in James Allan Mair's 1873 compendium A handbook of proverbs: English, Scottish, Irish, American, Shakesperean, and scriptural; and family mottoes, where it is listed as an Irish proverb on page 34. In the 1902 edition of Proverbs: Maxims and Phrases, by John Hendricks Bechtel, the phrase "Curiosity killed the cat" is the lone entry under the topic "Curiosity" on page 100.

's 1909 short story "Schools and Schools" includes a mention that suggests knowledge of the proverb had become widespread by that time:

Curiosity can do more things than kill a cat; and if emotions, well recognized as feminine, are inimical to feline life, then jealousy would soon leave the whole world catless.

3. Lalu inilah yang benar benar mempolulerkan pepatah ini.. karena dipublikasikan oleh koran amerika, lalu disebarluaskan, dan menjadi idiom paling menggelitik sepanjang abat (menurut The Washinton Post).

Well, in its modern form the phrase was first used in 1916 by The Washington Post to report the death of a cat whose curiosity proved fatal.

Here's Blackie's story as reported by the New York World:

On the fifth floor of the apartment house at 203 West 130th street lives Miss Mable Godfrey. When she came to the house about seven months ago she brought Blackie, a cat of several years' experience of life.

The cat seldom left the apartment. He was a hearth cat, not a fence cat, and did not dearly love to sing. In other respects he was normal and hence curious.

Last Tuesday afternoon when Miss Godfrey was out Blackie skipped into the grate fireplace in a rear room. He had done this many times before. But he had not climbed up the flue to the chimney. This he did Tuesday. Blackie there remained, perched on the top of the screen separating the apartment flue from the main chimney, crying for assistance. Miss Godfrey, returning, tried to induce her pet to come down. If you are experienced in felinity, you know that Blackie didn't come down.

On Wednesday the cat, curiosity unsatisfied, tried to climb higher—and fell to the first floor. His cries could still be heard by Miss Godfrey; who, to effect Blackie's rescue, communicated with the following departments:
1. Police department.
2. Fire department.
3. Health department.
4. Building department.
5. Washington Heights court.

Among them they lowered a rope to Blackie. But it availed neither the cat nor them anything.
Thursday morning, just before noon, a plumber opened the rear wall back of the chimney. Blackie was taken out. His fall had injured his back. Ten minutes later Blackie died.

Well I guess a better idiom would have been "fatuousness killed the feline" but I guess the cat is out of the bag now. ;)  

source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_killed_the_cat

Li

10102018

yang lagi merindukan kucingnya yang bernama "ONE"..

curiosity One membunuhku, karena dia lebih suka pada dunia luar yang begitu bebas, daripada dalam kandang, rumah, dan tumpukan bantal yang nyaman.