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Strauss being conspicuously indifferent to Strauss’s selection ahead of Owais Shah for England’s final warm-up match before the first Test against New Zealand
A catchy title, we think you’ll all agree.
It’s been a while since we received a picture of an animal being conspicuously indifferent to cricket – TOO LONG, in fact. There are a whole host of animals who have not yet expressed their indifference to this great game. We’ve never had a wholphin. We’ve never had a liger. Our inbox is always open.
Lemon Bella says:
“This is a picture of StraussCat being conspicuously indifferent when I told him that Strauss had been picked ahead of Shah.”
“As you can see, he put a lot of effort into showing exactly how much he didn’t care about this news.”
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Me thinks, the StraussCat doth protest too much!
He’s so fluffy, I really want to smoosh him. But is he yawning, or is he roaring with rage?
The rest of the cat would probably be showing more signs of rage if that were the case. Yawning.
Did you know that unlike other members of the big cat family, the puma cannot roar.
Wow, I did not know that! I’ve learnt something new today!
I reckon it’s because they’re lacking the specialized larynx and hyoid apparatus of Panthera
but i might be wrong….
We’ve made a note of the phrase ‘roar of the puma’ to use about the site some time.
See, this site is educational as well as… whatever else it is.
I can confirm that StraussCat is yawning. He only roars when i won’t get up to feed him.
Not wishing to slander your cat Lemon Bella, but StraussCat seems to have rather mucky paws. Where has he been sticking them?
That’s his fur! He has ginger bits all over him, including his paws.
I got the “puma cannot roar” fact from this picture of a wistful puma at the Wildlife Photographer exhibition (it’s in the 10-year-old and under category, which is depressing because it kicks any picture I’ve ever taken – ANY picture – firmly to the kerb).
http://tinyurl.com/2a2n2x
Another opportunity to use the phrase ‘knocked into a cocked hat’ goes begging.
Our favourite phrase. We use it even when it’s not applicable.
No, we use it ESPECIALLY when it’s not applicable.
Sorry, what I should have said was “it knocks any picture I’ve ever taken – ANY picture – firmly into a cocked hat”.
The wistful puma was the runner up in that category. The winning picture features monkeys, which reminds me of one of my favourite New Yorker cartoons – 2 little boys, talking to each other in the corridor at school, one says to the other “there’s a lot of pressure to like monkeys”.
A little history, on the etymology of the phrase, for any non-english readers!
Firstly, In the game of nine-pins, three pins were set up in the form of a triangle, and when all the pins except these three were knocked down, the set was technically said to be “knocked into a cocked hat.”
Secondly, the game was named after a three-cornered hat with the brim turned up (i.e. cocked) worn in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
That’s very useful for English readers too Suave.
The england certainly take this strauss seriously.
Happy to be of assistance.
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