Don from Munday, Texas, is fond of the phrase You can put your boots in the oven, but that don’t make ’em biscuits, which is a way of saying that even if you call something by a different name, that doesn’t change its essential nature. A more common version: Just because a cat has kittens in the oven, that don’t make ’em biscuits. This is part of a complete episode.
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