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may pagka gyod, as in...

same here.  ayaw lang i-park sa parking lot kay mora man sad tag circus exhibit, hehe.  adto lang ni sa garage.

you're too much of an amboy when you pick comparisons, mon tulfs.  can't blame you, though.  but remember that the pentagon isn't secure either.  it was hit by an airplane during that tragic 9/11, right?  as for you, you yourself weren't safe at an airport not so long ago.  so please, get off your high horse. 

how angelic!

However, I have my own opinion about the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland, which speaks in riddles and forces children to think about what's real and what isn't. It's the only character who listens to young Alice and tries to help her learn the rules of life in this mad world. This mysterious creature is almost certainly a mouthpiece for a certain Charles Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll, the author of the book. He's the real Cheshire cat. (http://mazzybolero.hubpages.com/)


Charles Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMHrNt5z-V8#

My [the author's] Conclusions

This last explanation is mundane - and who needs that? We all like a good story. However, I have to admit that this could be the most likely origin of the phrase "grinning like a Cheshire cat". These cats do look as if they are grinning, as you can see from the video. Unfortunately, it's a Russian video, but it's all I can find. You get the idea. (http://mazzybolero.hubpages.com/)

so there's a place in england named cheshire, and there are cats.  but do cheshire cats really grin?  out of 7 answers that tried to explain this idiom, this one is the most believable:

It's a Breed of Cat

There is a breed of cat originally known as the Dorset blue. This breed has a face with an upturned mouth that appears to be constantly smiling. Of course, the cat is not really smiling at all; it might be downright miserable, but it certainly looks amused. Sometime during the first part of the 18th Century, someone brought some of these cats from Dorset in the South West of England up to Cheshire in the North West, where they really thrived. In fact, they became so common in that county that they were referred to as Cheshire blue cats, or simply Cheshire cats.

They do appear to smile, but they are not blue - not in color, anyway. They may be feeling blue, possibly because everyone assumes they’re happy when they’re not. (http://mazzybolero.hubpages.com/)

The Cheshire Cat is a fictional cat popularised by Lewis Carroll's depiction of it in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Known for his distinctive mischievous grin, the Cheshire Cat is famous.

Cheshire Cat
Alice character


The Cheshire cat as John Tenniel envisioned it in the 1866 publication

First appearance    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Created by            Lewis Carroll

Information

Species                 Tabby British Shorthair Cat
Nationality            Wonderland

/wikipedia

in the darkness i can't tell whether it's a cat or a frog...

Quote from: hubag bohol on September 04, 2012, 05:09:09 PM

is it grinning?  in the dark?

A possible origin of the phrase "Grinning like a Cheshire Cat" is from the large number of dairy farms in Cheshire, hence the cats grin because of the abundance of milk and cream. This is the explanation most favoured by the people of Cheshire. (wikipedia)

wat dat, pliz?

ugh.  no wonder she got hitched to that gentleman with a bouquet.  how tasteless for a lady, if that's her title and not part of her first name, like 'lady bird johnson'. 

he has good teeth too.

aherm, i'm too secular for that. 

mas simple gyod hinoon ang paypay kay sa ani, nga grabeg demand for mathematics.

empathy, yes.  sarcasm, hmm, maybe.  with that picture of a man carrying a horse on his shoulder, i didn't know whether i should laugh or cry, for the man, or for the horse.

The problem with political jokes is they get elected. (The Professional Heckler's own tagline)

this is one objective blogger.  she's kind, unlike those many unkind commenters and trolls who drolled over sharon's supposedly fictional weight loss it's as if schaden freude had a field day.    

i just learned that this sharon cuneta ad became controversial early last year.  the outfit (marie france) stood by her.  so did the photographer who publicly denied that the image was photoshopped.  but the reading public was more skeptical, especially when there's such a thing as "truth in advertising". 

The Megastar for Marie France: Fact or Fiction?
02/05/11

I really, really want to believe that Sharon Cuneta has truly  won the battle of the bulge this time around with Marie France, but frankly, I'm skeptical.

Check out the before and after photos from Marie France:



    Before- no makeup which usually translates to a puffier look; After- heavily made up, features are contoured, creating the look of sharper angles.

    Before- hair is natural looking; not styled; After- hair is poker straight AND styled to hide her cheeks, resulting in a thinner looking face.

    Before- blouse is loose and shapeless; After- blouse is form-fitting and cinched at the waist, ergo, a more defined figure.

    Before- standing with legs apart, thus, creating a wider frame; After- legs are crossed with hips facing forward for a leaner silhouette.

My point is, I believe that the Megastar may have lost some weight, but definitely not as much as the Marie France spin doctors are proclaiming. Maybe they should have waited for 5-6 more months before launching this campaign, when the weight loss is more dramatic?

-from http://kikay.exchange.ph/

ooops...

Quote from: Lollapalooza on September 04, 2012, 02:29:15 PM
perhaps it's Sir Hubs... hehehehehe (peace!)

aw, fan man gyod tuod ko ni sir hubs...

  hahahahaha!  arang lingawa nako.  yeheeey!  these two gentlemen, his excellency and his honorable, will be glad to know that some paparazzi caught them doing honors to an rsvp invite.

A Pool Party
bring your own pool

in case sine gihapon ni, loll, kinsa man nang aktora?  bag-o kong fan niya da.

Singing and Guitar-Playing Party
videoke/karaoke singers banned

hehe, this is a movie diay?  wa na gyod diay koy tan-aw-tan-aw ug sine kay wa gani ko kahibawo nga naa diay sine with that title. 

A Reality Check Party
hey, i'm here to collect your catering bill payment...

A Pig Party
honored guests are piglets who think they're humans

A 20-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea-Themed Wedding Party
as inspired by jules verne

A Dog Birthday Party
can't see the shy guests in the picture, though

A Height Party
weird blue shoes available to choose from

sometimes, photoshopping like mall shopping is just as over the top...








Well, it's not like people come out the womb in the shape of a perfect purple vase, you know. (Amy Odell BuzzFeed)

-images from various sources

do we have this in our seas, including of course the west philippine sea?

about time.  their salaries and other perks are truly unbelievable in relation to what they do.  it's wall street, philippine style.

such feelings keep us going, don't they, lorenz?

very, very beautiful.  unbelievable.

this belongs to another possible thread... isda nga may pagka liwat sa tag-iya.

must i emphasize that you are very reassuring?

at a restaurant named 'lemon grass' in ayala cebu is the best herbal drink i've ever tasted.  it has slices of lemon, cucumbers, lemon grass, mint, and probably some other herbs that i can't recognize.  do try it when you drop by cebu city, fr chic.

(i tried to follow my imagined recipe of this drink, and failed.  the result was a discolored water because of the lemon grass.  i can't get how that restaurant makes it. 

p.s. its food used to be good.  lately something had changed, downward.  but their herbal drink hasn't changed.) 

i can't say it's an alkaline drink though.

3. Virginia Woolf on James Joyce

“[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.”


Virginia Woolf         James Joyce


2. William Faulkner on Mark Twain (1922)

“A hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tricked out a few of the old proven sure fire literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy.”

     
William Faulkner     Mark Twain


1. D.H. Lawrence on James Joyce (1928)

“My God, what a clumsy olla putrida James Joyce is! Nothing but old fags and cabbage stumps of quotations from the Bible and the rest stewed in the juice of deliberate, journalistic dirty-mindedness.”

       
D.H. Lawrence   James Joyce

-list of insults from http://www.flavorwire.com/
-images from various sources

6. W. H. Auden on Robert Browning

“I don’t think Robert Browning was very good in bed. His wife probably didn’t care for him very much. He snored and had fantasies about twelve-year-old girls.”

 
W. H. Auden       Robert Browning


5. Evelyn Waugh on Marcel Proust (1948)

“I am reading Proust for the first time. Very poor stuff. I think he was mentally defective.”


Evelyn Waugh         Marcel Proust


4. Mark Twain on Jane Austen (1898)

“I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can’t conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”

 
Mark Twain               Jane Austen

9. Truman Capote on Jack Kerouac

“That’s not writing, that’s typing.”

 
Truman Capote        Jack Kerouac


8. Elizabeth Bishop on J.D. Salinger

“I HATED [Catcher in the Rye]. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it?”

           
Elizabeth Bishop     J.D. Salinger


7. D.H. Lawrence on Herman Melville (1923)

“Nobody can be more clownish, more clumsy and sententiously in bad taste, than Herman Melville, even in a great book like ‘Moby Dick’….One wearies of the grand serieux. There’s something false about it. And that’s Melville. Oh dear, when the solemn ass brays! brays! brays!”

         
D.H. Lawrence     Herman Melville

12. Oscar Wilde on Alexander Pope

“There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.”

 
Oscar Wilde                Alexander Pope


11. Vladimir Nabokov on Ernest Hemingway (1972)

“As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early ‘forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.”

 
Vladimir Nabokov     Ernest Hemingway


10. Henry James on Edgar Allan Poe (1876)

“An enthusiasm for Poe is the mark of a decidedly primitive stage of reflection.”

 
Henry James         Edgar Allan Poe

15. William Faulkner on Ernest Hemingway

“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”

   
William Faulkner   Ernest Hemingway


14. Ernest Hemingway on William Faulkner

“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?”

 
Ernest Hemingway   William Faulkner


13. Gore Vidal on Truman Capote

“He’s a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.”

 
Gore Vidal                   Truman Capote 

18. Ralph Waldo Emerson on Jane Austen

“Miss Austen’s novels . . . seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem in the mind of the writer . . . is marriageableness.”

        
Ralph Waldo Emerson    Jane Austen


17. Martin Amis on Miguel Cervantes

“Reading Don Quixote can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits, unstoppable reminiscences, and terrible cronies. When the experience is over, and the old boy checks out at last (on page 846 â€" the prose wedged tight, with no breaks for dialogue), you will shed tears all right; not tears of relief or regret but tears of pride. You made it, despite all that ‘Don Quixote’ could do.”


Martin Amis                  Miguel Cervantes


16. Charles Baudelaire on Voltaire (1864)

“I grow bored in France â€" and the main reason is that everybody here resembles Voltaire…the king of nincompoops, the prince of the superficial, the anti-artist, the spokesman of janitresses, the Father Gigone of the editors of Siecle.”

 
Charles Baudelaire      Voltaire

very interesting.  a good read.  thanks, hof.

hahaha!  an egg turns to love? (Q & A no. 3)  real funny.

on second thoughts...

Is alkaline water better for you than plain water?

Answer
from Katherine Zeratsky, R.D., L.D.

For most people, plain water is best.

Because alkaline water has a higher pH level than does plain tap water, proponents say that it can neutralize acid in your bloodstream, boost your metabolism and help your body absorb nutrients more effectively. Some even say that alkaline water can help prevent disease and slow the aging process. However, researchers haven't verified these claims.

Some studies suggest that alkaline water may help slow bone loss, but further investigation is needed to determine if this influences overall bone mineral density and if the benefit is maintained over the long term.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/alkaline-water/AN01800

i just have to read up on this.  not only is the recipe so easy, i also expect that one more gimmick that could whip a storm in the bottled water business would be alkaline water.  the basic finds:

Top 3 Alkaline Water Benefits

1) Beneficial Antioxidant Properties

Alkaline water has antioxidant properties that help counteract free radicals. These free radicals can lead to pre-mature aging and other various conditions. The antioxidants being in liquid form allow for a quicker absorption into the system. So the benefits are markedly obvious since ionized water has anti-aging and anti-disease properties. It is also believed that some elements in this water drinking water can help develop cancer resistance.

2) Cleansing Features

Other ionized alkaline water benefits are that it helps to cleanse the organs and is particularly effective in cleansing the colon. As unclean elements cling to and build up within the colon, over time they can become poisonous and even lethal. Using ionized water can safely and easily remove these fecal matters. It can remove build up that is weeks or even years old leading to a more effective and thorough elimination process. This can help decrease the recurrence of unhealthy constipation issues.

3) Improves Physical Appearance

Along with cleansing the body’s inner systems alkaline water also rejuvenates the skin and keeps it hydrated. It helps the skin replace tissues and contributes its elasticity and overall health. It can also help detoxify the skin causing it to appear smoother and leading to fewer breakouts. (no author's name)

more at http://www.acidalkalinediet.com/alkaline-water/top-3-alkaline-water-benefits

how did this end, please?  fine, the horse was out of the deadly muddy pond, but it's still on its side.  how soon after was the horse up and about?

21. Lord Byron on John Keats (1820)

“Here are Johnny Keats’ piss-a-bed poetry, and three novels by God knows whom… No more Keats, I entreat: flay him alive; if some of you don’t I must skin him myself: there is no bearing the drivelling idiotism of the Mankin.”


Lord Byron             John Keats


20. Vladimir Nabokov on Joseph Conrad

“I cannot abide Conrad’s souvenir shop style and bottled ships and shell necklaces of romanticist cliches.”


Vladimir Nabokov    Joseph Conrad


19. Dylan Thomas on Rudyard Kipling

“Mr Kipling … stands for everything in this cankered world which I would wish were otherwise.”


Dylan Thomas               Rudyard Kipling

24. Virginia Woolf on Aldous Huxley

“All raw, uncooked, protesting.”


Virginia Woolf         Aldous Huxley


23. H. G. Wells on George Bernard Shaw

“An idiot child screaming in a hospital.”


H.G. Wells          George Bernard Shaw 
     

22. Joseph Conrad on D.H. Lawrence

“Filth. Nothing but obscenities.”

   
Joseph Conrad   D.H. Lawrence

27. Harold Bloom on J.K. Rowling (2000)

“How to read ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better, Rowling will have to do.”


Harold Bloom         J.K. Rowling


26. Vladimir Nabokov on Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Dostoevky’s lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity â€" all this is difficult to admire.”


Vladimir Nabokov    Fyodor Dostoevsky


25. Gertrude Stein on Ezra Pound

“A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.”

       
Gertrude Stein   Ezra Pound

they who are tops in turning good phrases sometimes use verbal zingers as rapiers to insult their kind.  unkind, they may be, but they're fun to read.  besides, as will rogers had said, everything is funny, as long as it is happening to someone else.

from Flavorwire Cultural News and Critique, the following is the countdown of 30 harshest insults from famous writers to other famous writers:

30. Gustave Flaubert on George Sand

“A great cow full of ink.”


Gustave Flaubert        George Sand


29. Robert Louis Stevenson on Walt Whitman

“…like a large shaggy dog just unchained scouring the beaches of the world and baying at the moon.”

             
Robert Louis Stevenson    Walt Whitman


28. Friedrich Nietzsche on Dante Alighieri

“A hyena that wrote poetry on tombs.”


Friedrich Nietzsche    Dante Alighieri

Quote from: chicogon on September 02, 2012, 03:51:00 AM
Good Wife Syndrome? Hehehe 

hehe, di tanto.  mauwaw man sad ta... gitagaan lang kog lingaw ni banana republic.  good cat syndrome hinoon, fr chic.  kining cat nga temporarily sheltered namo kay magsigeg sabak.  she's good when she doesn't reach out for the mouse unya ilogan ko...

tuod sa?  di na lang hinoon ko mangambisyon aning ariyosa kay sa bugnawng lugar kinahanglan gyod kong magkawo ug morag orinola ug porma, kanang way pasaylo hasta akong dunggan tabonan kay, na, mapuwa akong dunggan ug ang eardrums motuskig intawon, mokatay pa ang kahapdos ngadto sa akong tutonlan.  di mahimong taoran ug ariyos ang dunggan nianang panahona, hehe.  besides, anha diay ni sa freezer ang storage ani?  na, maluto ug apil. 

as the dr. adrian wong shared the email that he got by posting it, he himself debunked these claims by posting in the same forum his own answer to that email, as follows:

This was what I wrote back :

Seriously, this e-mail is what’s REALLY dangerous!

Not a single piece of advice is fact.

1. Smoke after a meal because the bad effect (emphysema, cancer, etc.) of smoking a cigarette becomes ten times worse?

Smoking cigarettes is harmful to your health at any time. Cigarettes contain as many as 60 carcinogens (substances known to cause cancer), and the nicotine in cigarettes is highly addictive. The addictive nature of nicotine leads smokers to continue smoking, and makes quitting very difficult. The risk of cancer and emphysema is certainly related to what kind and how many cigarettes you smoke, but there is no good evidence that smoking after meals in particular increases this risk.

2. Do not eat fruits immediately after meals because it will bloat your stomach?

Nuts! Fruits can be eaten anytime before or after meals. In fact, it’s a great way to obtain fibre (bulk) and reduce the intake of food â€" for those who want to cut down on calories.

3. Do not drink tea after a meal as tea leaves contain a high content of acid?

So what? Your stomach produces its own hydrochloric acid anyway. Acid helps BREAK DOWN protein, not harden it. It also activates stomach enzymes which break protein into amino acids. Remember, after a meal, your stomach will be full of food. So what little acid you get from tea is inconsequential.

Do note that tannic acid from tea will stimulate acid secretion so it’s best taken with or after meals. That’s why we have dim sum when we yum cha la!

4. Do not loosen the belt after eating because it can cause intestinal problems?

Seriously, this is utter nonsense. Keeping your belt tight will increase abdominal pressure and possibly increase the risk of acid reflux into the oesophagus. If anything, a tight belt will cause intestinal problems!

5. Do not bathe after eating because it will weaken the digestive system in the stomach?

After a meal, more blood will automatically be diverted to the intestines to absorb the nutrients. Having a bath or not will not affect digestion or absorption of nutrients. Neither will exercise.

6. Do not walk after a meal because it will make it difficult for the digestive system to absorb the nutrition?

Can we all say “utter nonsense”? Together and loudly please!

Walking is good, no matter whether it’s before or after meals. Nutrition will get absorbed, no matter whether you sit still like a statue or walk about.

In fact, walking can reduce heart burn and reduce the surge in plasma glucose levels after a meal â€" good for diabetics.

7. Do not sleep immediately after a meal because the food will not be digested properly?

Food will be digested whether you are asleep or awake. Sleeping will not cause digestion problems. However, sleeping after a meal is bad because it can cause heartburn, and can lead to obesity.

8. Finally, please forward this e-mail to the very same people you forwarded that PowerPoint presentation to. Do your part to kill this kind of nonsensical e-mails.
__________________
Dr. Adrian Wong

more at http://forums.techarp.com/lounge/25527-seven-dangerous-acts-after-meal.html

posted on the internet as passed on by email:

DON'T ACT THE 7 ACTIONS BELOW AFTER YOU HAVE A MEAL ...

*Experiment from experts proves that smoking a cigarette after meal is comparable to smoking 10 cigarettes (chances of cancer is higher).

* Don't eat fruits immediately - Immediately eating fruits after meals will cause stomach to be bloated with air. Therefore take fruit 1-2 hr after meal or 1hr before meal.

* Don't drink tea - Because tea leaves contain a high content of acid. This substance will cause the Protein content in the food we consume to be hardened thus difficult to digest.

* Don't loosen your belt - Loosening the belt after a meal will easily cause the intestine to be twisted & blocked.

* Don't bathe - Bathing after meal will cause the increase of blood flow to the hands, legs & body thus the amount of blood around the stomach will therefore decrease. This will weaken the digestive system in our stomach.

* Don't walk about - People always say that after a meal walk a hundred steps and you will live till 99. In actual fact this is not true. Walking will cause the digestive system to be unable to absorb the nutrition from the food we intake.

*Don't sleep immediately - The food we intake will not be able to digest properly. Thus will lead to gastric & infection in our intestine.

FINALLY DONT JUST KEEP THIS INFORMATION . . ..
PLEASE FORWARD IT TO YOUR FRIENDS. LET THEM BE AWARE...........

-posted by a person named Dr. Adrian Wong
at http://forums.techarp.com/

taym sa kay tulo ani ang akong binuhatan after eating... also wondering why.

kuyawa.  master of disguise man na siya uy.  maapil ug ahat kun mag-rake tag dry leaves.

tinan-awan man nag gibahoan.

unsa may ipasabot anang coupon?  coupon bond ra man intawon ang akong nahibaw-an.

haraw palitan kog ingon ana ni banana republic... unsaon kaha na pagtaod sa?

si ma'am nga employer ninyo ni bai hubs ang imong ipasabot tingali.  why man?  wa mo sweldohi?

Quote from: hubag bohol on September 03, 2012, 11:28:32 AM
"Not following instructions" is the operative phrase...

and by implication, that operative phrase could refer to his excellency and his honor... kasabot?

Quote from: Lorenzo on September 03, 2012, 07:25:11 AM
Klaro kaayo that you live here, Father Roel. Kai naa may basket ball net.

ps. To everyone here in TB, when i had an EB with Fr. Roel in 2010, he threw a basketball into the net and it went in. He didn't even try. lol. Then I found out that Fr. Roel was a baskeball player kono in high school.

tingali kun pilay pad sa unggoy makaadto diay ko sa st genevieve church ni fr chic, haraw ang iyahang basketball ring technically advanced na.  maoy mosunod sa bola bisag asa i-shoot...

sure ko (hahaha!  bisag wa ko kasuway ug photoshop).  another possibility:  optical illusion.  naa tingaliy lubi nga gasayal ug gamot, morag mini-skirt, unya naay trunk all the way down nga gitabonan sa baye nga ga-posing.  mao tingali nang makita sa luyo sa legs sa baye.  way kalainan sa mga turista nga magparitrato nga nagtukod kintahay sa leaning tower of pisa.  bawo ba uroy...

buotan gihapon pagdako, bisag naningkamot ang owner (nga tb member) nga himoong lion.

Quote from: chicogon on September 03, 2012, 03:42:38 AM
Mao na siyay tig post ug pics sa TB nga legendary bitaw... 

hahaha!  duha ra ra bay legendary dinhi, his excellency the ambassador and his honor the senator...

ang anay sa ilonggo kay unya pa.  sa ato nakaguba na ug poste.

never na isugba uy.  never.  gi-save man gani.  naa ba goy isugba nga ipahiluna pa ug towel, placed gently on the hand.  kun isugba pa, gigunitan na sa ikog ug gituwad.  boogoolboogooloon man ka, hubag.  haraw naa kay anak ing-ana ug hitsura. 

molikay lang ko, hehehe. 

unsa man ipasabot ninyo ani uy?  wa man ko ka-g.  mag-nose bleed man sad ko ani... so naay picture nga gisagolsagol ang images.  and then...?

and i'll plumb the depths.

goodness me, ajaw tawon pa-dehydrate fr chic kay lisod nga dehydrated ka pero gaalirong ang baha.  how anachronistic if one goes thirsty in the midst of plenty.  jawk.    

eh?  now pa ko nga mopaghot pod diay si bugsay.  abi nakog managhoy ra.

Quote from: chicogon on September 02, 2012, 10:19:57 PM
Corrupting minors mo ha... 

duha ra man hinoon ang minors dinhi, si tubagbohol.com ug si bugsay.

Quote from: hubag bohol on September 02, 2012, 09:08:26 PM
Hahay, Ms. Isle, naunsa na man ni nga topic, maayo man kaayo nimong pagkabuli-cat...

pi-cat!  sige lang god, cat bitaw nag-una sa title sa article.  title pa gani na.  huwat lang nga saputon ko aron binagsaon hinoon nakog hinguto.  sayang lang di kalahutay akong mata ug likod atubangan sa computer screen da...

unfortunately, it's the punished sailor who is supposed to be skinned by the cat-o-nine tails, so how come the phrase is "skin the cat"?  the answer must be somewhere out there.  in the vastness of space.

In England we use the term 'not enough room to swing a cat' to describe a small space or somewhere where there is little room to move. The nine strands (tails) of the 'cat' were knotted and it ripped the skin off the back of the poor unfortunate it was used on.  No doubt there was skill in using it properly and in the different types of strokes employed to achieve the punishment. 

I assume that the meaning of the phrase (more than one way...), which is that there is more than one way to approach a problem or issue refers to different techniques that could be deployed in the flogging and therefore taking the skin off the back of the sailor being punished. Presumably some of the flayed skin stuck to the the Cat-o-nine tails! (no author with internet name given for this answer)

/wikipedia

the best answer (just because i can bear it)...


My understanding of this phrase is linked to the similar ones, 'not enough room to swing a cat' and that's 'let the cat out of the bag'. 

I don't have any reference for them other than I come from a naval family from the old naval city of Plymouth, England.  I offer this only as a possible pointer to further investigation.  The Imperial War Museum in London may have an authorative answer.  The 'cat' in question is not a feline but rather the cat-o-nine tails, which was once used aboard Royal Navy ships as punishment.  It was kept in a canvas bag until required and once it was taken out everyone on board knew what was about to happen. In other words the secret was out.

It was used to flay (strip the skin/whip) the wrong-doer and the person using it needed room (their arm's length plus the length of the 'cat' in order to be able to 'swing' it and deliver the blow).

        Proverbs in which the cat suffers horribly are commonplace.  "There isn't room in here to swing a cat" for example.  'Swing' means "hang with a noose"...not a nice image.  They seem to be old and I suspect that at some time in the past there was a common idea that doing bad things to cats was a humorous image.  This is still true - remember the best-seller book "101 things to do with a dead cat" which consisted of 101 cartoons showing creative uses for cat corpses? SteveBaker 04:03, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Remember that in the "dark ages" cats were considered the familiars of witches.  Cats were routinely killed because they were so linked to witchcraft.  So it seems much more plausible that skinning and otherwise killing cats has a derivation not in humor, but in superstition. Fdharbour

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    The best I found on Google books is in Speaking of Animals: A Dictionary of Animal Metaphors by Robert Allen Palmatier.  Apparently there are two ways skin a cat: from head to tail and from tail to head.  As well as being a disgusting image, it seems a rather inadequate metaphor for the idea expressed.   First attested 1830.  Maybe the sheer gratuitous grotesqueness tickled the collective funnybone of the anglosphere enough to make the expression stick. jnestorius 21:44, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

may i use another idiom just to add to the grotesquery... before anyone thinks of more than one way to skin my cat, he will have to think of doing it over my dead body... 

i searched the internet highway for some answers on why this phrase ever came about.  some interesting finds:

    A Dictionary of American Proverbs (1996) lists several variations:

        There's more than one way to skin a cat without tearing the hide.
        More than one way to kill a cat besides choking him with butter.
        More than one way to kill a cat besides skinning him.
        More than one way to skin a cat.
        There are more ways than one to kill a cat.
        There are more ways to kill a cat besides choking him to death.
        There is more than one way to kill a cat.
        There is more than one way to kill a cat besides choking him on 
        cream.

    Earliest known written source: 1678 Ray, John English Proverbs.â€"eric 22:21, 9 April 2007 (UTC) (wikipedia)

the horror!  the horror!

the author means well, and his points for creative thinking are a great help to anyone with the patience to follow them.  but he himself (deservedly ) should have done some creative thinking of his own by using a less horrific idiom in the title. 

"more than one way to skin a cat?"  how creative is that?  it's not only horrific, it's just as worn out as a metaphor.   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEgxuE7WD6U#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiVEw5UT6oA#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUDshT19j8Q#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xShvBhbtKDY#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtBbyglq37E#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nbzM3ZI0pw#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_l9YJdYKBg#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOMwYpQ1SgU#ws

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycbgHM1mI0k#

the top bacharach-david songs:

Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head

This Guy's in Love with You

I'll Never Fall in Love Again

Do You Know the Way to San Jose

Don't Make Me Over

(They Long to Be) Close to You

Walk On By

What the World Needs Now Is Love

I Say a Little Prayer

The Story of My Life

Magic Moments

(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me

One Less Bell to Answer

Anyone Who Had a Heart

What's New Pussycat?

Alfie

The Look of Love

Wishin' and Hopin'

p.s. at the music thread of this forum, i will post some of these songs, as rendered by my favorite interpreters of specific songs, e.g., aretha franklin for "i say a little prayer", jack jones for "alfie", dusty springfield for "wishin' and hopin", etc.  (i admit i don't know all the songs in the list.)

i like reaching out to songs in the past, distant or not.  they give an idea of how people felt and reacted to things at certain decades and provide an inkling of our cultural evolution.  well, those concertos were from centuries past, rendering old pop songs and standards more accessible.  

winning the 1970 best song oscar award for Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head (from the movie 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid')

composer Burt Bacharach and lyricist Hal David
the legendary musical partnership

Hal David

David joined the board of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in 1974 and served as president 1980 to 1986. He was head of the Songwriters Hall of Fame from 2001 to 2011, and was Chairman Emeritus at his death.

"As a lyric writer, Hal was simple, concise and poetic -- conveying volumes of meaning in fewest possible words and always in service to the music," ASCAP's current president, the songwriter Paul Williams, said in a statement. "It is no wonder that so many of his lyrics have become part of our everyday vocabulary and his songs... the backdrop of our lives."

more at http://tv.yahoo.com/news/legendary-lyricist-hal-david-dies-91-000246693.html

Bacharach and David were among the most successful teams in modern history, with top 40 hits including "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head," "Close to You" and "That's What Friends Are For."  Although most associated with Dionne Warwick, their music was recorded by many of the top acts of their time, from the Beatles and Barbra Streisand to Frank Sinatra and Aretha Franklin. They won an Oscar for "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" (from the movie "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"), Grammys and Tonys for the songs from the hit Broadway musical "Promises, Promises."