> Thank you! Almost anyone could have just made a cat's cradle reference. You went straight to the source and elevated the conversation in the process. Polywat

> Thank you! Almost anyone could have just made a cat's cradle reference. You went straight to the source and elevated the conversation in the process. Polywater wasn't the "source" for Cat's Cradle. The book was published in 1963 and (per Wikipedia) the West didn't take notice of polywater until 1966 at the earliest.