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    3 days ago

    The joke in my part of the world used to be “a black cat in a coal cellar at midnight”. That this is also a cat makes me think that the artist might be familiar with that idiom.

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      3 days ago

      Mine was “darker than a black cat in a coal mine at night” but I think it’s just easier for hicks with an accent to say. Far less racist than the other ways they would say “dark”.

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        Oof. I’d never even thought about it in terms of race, but now you mention it, I have to wonder if I ever heard it in that context.

        … and, not that I remember, probably have. sigh

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          Haha yeah sorry… I spent to much time in some backwater places in the south and Midwest parts of America and heard it a whole lot.
          Heard it used for other things too… But one use stood out above the rest in my memories.