What is OUR cat and OUR bag?
Posted 23 Jan 2012
As we prepared our birthday celebrations around the ChickenMonkeyDog offices, we did our best to keep the gift give-away contests under our hats, and the phrase “don’t let the cat out of the bag” was thrown around.
While we are generally fans of that phrase, for a site named chickenmonkeydog, the phrase “let the cat out of the bag” seems ill matched.
Can you help us think of a more appropriate phrase which means the same thing, for us to use around chickenmonkeydog?
The quirkiness of a dog’s bark
Posted 14 Dec 2011
Animals, Daily Life | 4 Comments
In US English (and perhaps in other variations of English), a dog says “bark-bark”, or sometimes “ruff-ruff”. I am aware that other languages use different words for a dog’s barking sound. However, it strikes me as odd that the word bark in English means both the sound a dog makes as well as the outer skin of a tree. So I wonder if other animal sounds — either in English or in other languages — have multiple meanings, like the word bark.
Common sense required
Posted 7 Dec 2011
Animals, Language | 2 Comments
Seen on the back of a bottle for pet stain remover. The label starts off routinely: “Directions” then “Cautions”. But underneath that, the makers included a special set of “Common Sense Cautions”.
What does this mean?!? Does it mean that you need common sense to understand these warnings? Or maybe the first caution is not common sense and only understood by those with advanced IQ’s?
Seagull say what?
Posted 21 Nov 2011
I was walking along, minding my own business and then I got screeched at by this fellow. His mouth takes up half his face. I couldn’t understand what he was saying … I think he was angry I was feeding a squirrel and not him!
