In this third and perhaps final episode in our possibly-popular Curing Shyness in Dogs series, to entertain you and your dog, and perhaps cure one or both of you of various ailments, we see a video demo by Steve Snell, featuring a starter pistol and some striped gloves, and also sunglasses. Click on the image […]
Month: December 2010
Ig winner’s death/taxes oddity imminent
Reuters columnist Amy Feldman of Reuters analyzes: Estate taxes affect very few people [in the US], but for those with seven- or eight-figure estates that are impacted, the end of this [particular and very peculiar] year is a crazy, crazy time… “Whether somebody dies December 31st or January 1st makes a huge difference because the […]
Professor Culpeper’s Insult Power Rankings
Nowadays, if you were to call someone a ‘Dried neat’s-tongue’ or a ‘Trunk of humours’ you might be met with a look of dismay rather than outrage. But things could have panned out very differently in 17th century Britain. Professor Jonathan Culpeper at the Department of Linguistics & English Language of Lancaster University, UK, tackles […]
Curing shyness for dogs (2): Gunfire
In this second episode in our deniably-popular Curing Shyness in Dogs series, to entertain you and your dog, and perhaps cure one or both of you of various ailments, we examine, distantly, this Master’s Voice Productions-produced set of CDs. This entertainment and/or cure is, the manufacturer says, “the result of two years of studies, planning […]