I recently picked up a book called, " Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World" It's essentially the biography of a cat that was adopted by a library after being found in the library's overnight return chute during one of the tiny town's coldest winters on record. I discovered that he was Melvil Dewey, the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System. At this, I stopped and thought, "OH RIGHT! That's the dude that we learned about every year we went to the school library's nonfiction section!" which prompted me to do some extra research... Instead of boring you with the monotonous droning of facts that I acquired, I will just tell you my favorite facts about Dewey the Human and Dewey the Cat. Starting with the latter, Dewey the Human was originally named "Melville Dewey", but he changed it to "Melvil" in order to get rid of unnecessary letters. In fact, he almost changed his last name to "Dui". Good thing he didn't because all of his modern day ancestors (if he has any), would probably get a good laughing at if they ever got pulled over for drinking and driving... (Get it? Because "Dui" is spelled "DUI" which is what you get arrested for when you drink and drive... Haha.) On the other hand (paw?), Dewey apparently only ate Friskies Fancy Feast. Clearly these are two very different characters here... Except maybe that the were born in the winter... but I think that's about it...Note: Doesn't Mr. Dewey look like Harrison Ford?
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