h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

As in odd-one-out, cat dog TV?

I got caught out by that one decades ago, a friend said (with convincing outrage) it was perpetrated on her niece (who said cat -- doesn't require licence, and was failed). I faithfully repeated it to someone else, who had heard it before. My very first urban myth.

Didn't strike me to ask, how do you know that was what failed her?

Yes 2legs, you, and everyone else (I think) has missed out on asking what the dog was barking at. I was watching, and it barked because it thought the dreaded 'hooverer after light fades' one was about to visit the property. It was, of course, wrong to think that.