A Michael Broad Blog
This post is all about the origin of the old and rarely used saying, “raining cats and dogs” plus its meaning. So, for people whose first language is not English, this phrase means “it is raining hard” or ” it is raining very heavily”. The literary extracts referred to below describe a situation when, …
Here is complete list of ‘cat quotes’ and some comment too. There are many, which is a testament to our interest in and love of the domestic cat. There are some more articles on ‘cat quotes’ as I have called them at the end of this article š. It is pretty comprehensive. Associated Pages: …
The words in the title were said by Sir Kingsley Amis (1922-1995). Sir Kingsley Amis was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels and six volumes of poetry and a lot more besides. Also, he was a cat lover. He associated gentleness in people who are the guardians …
Recently, Mark Zuckerberg was asked to attend an important international grand committee set up, as I understand it, by the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee at the Houses of Parliament in London, UK. The intention was to question Mr Zuckerberg over recent data breaches, allegations of business malpractice, allegations of the spread of …
By Ruth AKA Kattaddorra The very wise words from Mark Twain inspired the poster. Punishing cats in any way at all is unkind and pointless. They donāt understand punishment because they donāt know why a person is doing it to them, they arenāt āmisbehavingā they are behaving in the natural way for a cat. …
Photo by Sidereal (Flickr) – see base of page for link. Here are some funny animal quotes as a little diversion from the current difficulties and bad news (March 2011 – Japan earthquake, Libya and Gaddafi, Bahrain, Yemen etc. and the slow response of the world to help). Of course I include cats where …
