101 Uses for a Dead Cat

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For more than a decade he lived in Phoenix, Arizona, where the climate was better suited to his chronic asthma. Its success was considered part of a larger " cat craze" in popular culture, which included the Jim Davis comic strip Garfield, and the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats.

A Manual for Retaliation (1983) and How to Thrive on Rejection: A Manual for Survival (1985), as well as Percy Richer's Richer's Legal Nuggets (1987) and Tom Isitt's Secrets of the Queen's Closet (1988). The book includes some wickedly ingenious and surrealist ideas for putting a dead cat to good use, whether decorative, functional or on the sports field. Prý tohle není knížka pro majitele koček - no nevím, kočku doma máme (byť takovou polodivokou, co celé noci trajdá po venku a nosí před domovní dveře baterie myší), ale já se tedy královsky pobavila. The book was an instant and enduring success, eventually selling more than two million copies and being published in 20 countries.In all he published more than 20 collections of drawings, including Odd Visions and Bizarre Sights (1983), Uniformity (1986), A Bruise of Bouncers (1987), Battered Lawyers and Other Good Ideas (1989), Odd Dogs (1989), Holy Unacceptable (1990), Commuted to Life (1992), Everybody's Doing It (1993) and three children's books featuring the teddy bear Tough Ted. But I do also at times have a bit of a twisted sense of humour, which you've got to have if you're going to enjoy or even want to flick through this book. Takže pokud přistoupíte na ten trošku morbidní koncept, tak se u řady kreseb opravdu pobavíte, někdy se nebudete stačit divit, kam na to ten autor chodí a občas pokrčíte rameny s hláškou "a co jako. In London, he attended Preston Manor County Grammar School, Wembley, before studying graphics at West Sussex College of Art and Design in Worthing (1965–68). In 2001, to mark the 20th anniversary of the first book, Methuen published Complete Uses of a Dead Cat (2001), incorporating all three volumes.

This little book was loaned to me by a fellow woodcarver, John Panhorst, saying he thought I might enjoy it. The book was promoted with the tag line, "Since time immemorial mankind has been plagued by the question, 'What do you do with a dead cat? Nejvíc se u toho ale nařechtala naše šestiletá dcera, která bez Micinky nedá ani ránu a je to její nejlepší kamarádka. I’ll start with a warning: You gotta have a sort of sideways sense of humor to appreciate the book, especially if you’re a cat lover (the author acknowledges he’s allergic to them).For me this book is all about the memory of it- reading it at Grandpa K's house at the holidays with my sisters and cousins. In 1985 he married Linda Marshall, and moved to the Jacobean Great Addington Manor near Kettering in Northamptonshire. He was the second son of Terence Bond, a political secretary at the United Nations, and Hilda Everett. He was a keen collector of antiques and was also very interested in sport, especially cricket and football (Nottingham Forest FC).