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Not that it really matters, but here's what OED says about the "catbird's seat:"

The catbird seat: a superior or advantageous position. U.S. slang.

1942 J. Thurber in 55 Short Stories from New Yorker (1949) 61 "‘Sitting in the catbird seat’ meant sitting pretty, like a batter with three balls and no strikes on him."

1958 Wodehouse Cocktail Time xiii. 114 "I get you. If we swing it, we'll be sitting pretty. In the catbird seat."