[Cats] Saturday's trivia question

[Jo Anna Dale]

         Hi.  In the olden days, roof were made of thatch - a kind of 
hay or straw.  Cats and dogs would make nests in the thatch.  When it 
rained, the animals were driven from their nests and fell to the 
ground.  Thus, "raining cats and dogs."  Jo Anna Dale <jdale at swbell.net>

At 04:07 PM 9/20/2008, you wrote:
>Today's question:
>
>Where did the phrase "It's raining cats and dogs" come from? (Not
>location, country, century, etc., but what's the "story" behind the saying?)
>
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