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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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The sea between Denmark and Sweden, Kattegat, can be translated to "a fishes cloaca on a cat" from danish (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"Katte-" as a prefix means relating to a cat. Eg. "Kattepoter" = "cats paws"

Gat means the cloaca on a fish or a bird (cloaca is the all-in-one hole on fish, birds, etc.)

I realize this is probably a very wrong interpretation, but in that case, i don't want to be right.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You're close, the name does derive from kat and gat, dutch words for cat and gate/passage/hole, respectively. The safe routes were so narrow, even a cat would have trouble squeezing through.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In Dutch, it just means cat's asshole.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Any hole, really.