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Monday, April 23, 2007

Herding Cats

Here in the English Midlands, it's a damp, grey Monday morning. It may not be damp and grey where you are, but it's still Monday, so I thought you might appreciate a spot of light relief. Here's a video I was sent the other day, therefore. It cracked me up when I first saw it...



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Incidentally, I first heard the expression 'herding cats' some years ago when I was doing some work for Wolverhampton University Business School. The job involved adapting business course material for delivery over the Internet. At one point the manager in charge of the project expressed his frustration that he wasn't getting as much co-operation as he might have hoped: "Getting university lecturers to do anything together is like trying to herd cats," he sighed.

As a cat owner myself, I knew immediately what he meant!

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2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi Nick

What a scream or should that be miaow?

Thought you might appreciate the following heard when I ran a stress management course some time ago. I was amused by one of female participant's comments on the mood of her teenage daughter:

"She's like a bagful of cats in the morning"!

Yes, all cat people know that we are only ever 'staff' to our furry fiends - sorry friends.

Sandy
http://www.writingtoinspireyou.com

4:38 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi Nick,

Loved the video!

Thought you might appreciate the following heard when I ran a stress management course some time ago. One of the female participants talking about her teenage daughter said:

"She is like a 'bagful of cats' in the morning"!

We have a cat too, or rather she has us. To her we are just staff!

4:42 PM  

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