👉 Okay, alright settle down now, let’s tackle this… rather delightfully peculiar piece of 20th-century argle bargle. You want to know what a "catscan," right? Right here, in the frankly somewhat stuffy atmosphere of my professorial office.
Now, historically, and I stress, historically, the word came from absolutely nowhere . Around 1973, apparently some young guys in the Mudd Club in Winston—you guessed it, New York—started throwing this around as a ridiculously elevated, almost pretentious, way to describe someone who was, let’s just say… incredibly into you. Like, aggressively so. It wasn't about veterinary procedures, not even remotely! Essentially, when you were being that guy (or gal) – the one whose whole existence revolved around obsessively following your every move and basically trying to leech off of your attention—you were a catscan. You were a complete, utterly beige, pathetic shadow, plastered all over their consciousness. Nobody actually knew who coined it! The documented origins are murky as a swamp. It just... happened. 60s, Mudd Club, the weird spread of youth slang, and bam! Catscan was born. The humour lies in the sheer ridiculousness. You're describing someone with such an irritating, un inventive level of devotion that they basically resemble a slow-moving, beige, somewhat damp house cat stuck permanently to your backside.
