Sentences with phrase «about dead cats»

; in other words they will be talking about the dead cat, the thing you want them to talk about, and they will not be talking about the issue that has been causing you so much grief.»

Don't tell stories that involve death unless you can make them (a) cartoonishly shocking or (b) so bizarre that they cease to feel realistic.For example, I have a story about a dead cat.

Not exact matches

The dead - cat metaphor seems to be a popular one (it is taken from the investment business, where traders who are skeptical about a stock's rise will say that even a dead cat bounces a little when you drop it).

When I joined this site in 2011 all I read about was the «dead cat bounce» that was coming soon and anyone who was buying a home in 2011 was a «knife catcher» and would be stuck with an overpriced home on a 30 yr mortgage.

come on... this is the dead cat tactic... we should be talking about why there is no serious move for two world class strikers without which we will have another failed season and why players like the whippet, ox mert and campbell have not been told they are surplus to requirements in a club with ambition to win top trophies... oh hang on maybe wenger is the man for the england job!!!!!

Labour believed they could dominate two full days of the campaign with the non-dom proposal, but the Conservative campaign director, Lynton Crosby, countered with a trademark «dead cat» strategy — a tactic best summarised by Boris Johnson as follows: «There is one thing that is absolutely certain about throwing a dead cat on the dining room table — and I don't mean that people will be outraged, alarmed, disgusted.

Cat - induced allergies affect about 20 percent of the U.S. population, according to studies, and is caused by a protein found in the animals» saliva and dander (dead skin cells.)

I could also give credit to the writers for naming the main character in this cat - and - mouse thriller «Tom and Jerry,» but really, it only took as much brainstorming to come up with that trivial tidbit than just about anything else in this archaic, brain - dead thriller.

A few others that made my personal list which are nowhere here: Motel Hell, The People Under the Stairs, Wolfen, Ginger Snaps, Dead & Buried, Bride of Chucky, Deranged (1972), Misery, Cat People (1982), Fright Night (no, I still don't see what's supposed to be homophobic about the movie even though I would love to hear Ed's theories), the ever unfairly maligned Scream, the entirely fairly maligned Clownhouse, and I, Madman.

If you are looking for a source that confirms my statements about both breeds you own and googling people with dead cats is not enough for you recognize that this tendency is in the breed standard which you should be familiar with:

Their median life expectancy is around five years but what happens, in fact, is that about half the cats disappear mysteriously presumed dead at approximately age one year (which corresponds to the late teen years in humans) and the other half learn how to take care of themselves and usually live a normal life span of 8 to 12 years.

FDA: 360 dogs, 1 cat reportedly dead from jerky treats People who have been monitoring the news about Chinese - made jerky treats being blamed for pet illnesses finally have some figures to analyze.

Egyptians were serious about their cats: they held funerals for their dead feline friends, then entombed them either in the family crypt or a pet cemetery, often surrounded by tiny mummies of dead mice.

By February 2007, you couldn't «swing a dead cat in New York without hitting a puggle,» The New York Times Magazine raved in an article about hybrid dogs.

You will be captivated as Cat talks about her cadaver dog, Solo, and how they work together to locate individuals who are missing and presumed dead.

Red Dead Redemption is undoubtedly one of 2018's biggest headliners, but the same onine retailer who let the cat out of the bag about GTA 5's release date has just put up a store listing for Red Dead Redemption 2 with a release date of June 8th for the highly anticipated game.

The new Red Dead Redemption 2 trailer has got them all excited, as has a game about dating cats.

Everybody is concerned about a double - dip recession but I'm more concerned that what recovery we've seen so far is a «dead - cat bounce» where we get stuck in an era of perpetually high unemployment because we're not addressing long - term challenges.

Here's a snippet from BusinessWeek: «Moments before a single - engine plane collided with a helicopter over the Hudson in 2009, the controller who should have been advising the plane's pilot was chatting on teh phone with an ariport worker, making crude jokes about cooking up a dead cat.