That meant bidding farewell to a few lumbering creatures: the Pink Panther, Woody Woodpecker and the Cat in the Hat.

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Stevenson, nicknamed The Cat in the Hat because of the fact that he wears a black street hockey safety helmet, claimed silver with 5.90m.

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Sperling, a man religiously opposed to having a social life, continues to log six 18-hour days a week, even though he has now acquired three assistants, who are already pasty-faced with fatigue and have gained the nicknames Thing One, Thing Two and Thing Three after characters in The Cat in the Hat.

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It will stuff Cat in the Hat toys in selected kids' cereals to tie in with the Universal Studios movie.

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It moved through hoods, beanies and "Cat in the Hat" hats on to baseball caps first turned sideways and then with a flat brim (the polar opposite of the redneck and preppy artfully turned trend) and the current reinvented trend for "the bucket, " preferably from Louis Vuitton or Ralph Lauren.

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