Comments on: Echoes of Italy http://dublinopinion.com/2008/09/23/echoes-of-italy/ It's a group blog. What more do you need to know? Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:47:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Donagh http://dublinopinion.com/2008/09/23/echoes-of-italy/#comment-68489 Donagh Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:59:22 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2008/09/23/echoes-of-italy/#comment-68489 Well, I'm a cat man myself, and have always admired feline cunning (funny, you never hear of canine cunning). But there has always been a wariness of cats too mainly because they're going to sell you down the river <a href="http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/HL1543.php" rel="nofollow">sooner or later</a>. Pardon to Gizmo in advance for the incomprehensibility of this comment. Well, I’m a cat man myself, and have always admired feline cunning (funny, you never hear of canine cunning). But there has always been a wariness of cats too mainly because they’re going to sell you down the river sooner or later.

Pardon to Gizmo in advance for the incomprehensibility of this comment.

]]> By: ejh http://dublinopinion.com/2008/09/23/echoes-of-italy/#comment-68487 ejh Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:27:48 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2008/09/23/echoes-of-italy/#comment-68487 <i>precisely those institutions that believed they were ’smarter than the rest of us,’ institutions who need to get those assets off their balance sheet at an inflated value lest they be at risk of large losses or worse</i> Well, a cat will sleep for sixteen hours of the day, will spend the rest doing exactly what they please, will contribute exactly nothing in terms of work and yet will be fed, sheltered and generally grovelled to* by everybody else. And for this reason I have always argued that cats are smarter than the rest of us. [* and rightly so, may I add] precisely those institutions that believed they were ’smarter than the rest of us,’ institutions who need to get those assets off their balance sheet at an inflated value lest they be at risk of large losses or worse

Well, a cat will sleep for sixteen hours of the day, will spend the rest doing exactly what they please, will contribute exactly nothing in terms of work and yet will be fed, sheltered and generally grovelled to* by everybody else. And for this reason I have always argued that cats are smarter than the rest of us.

[* and rightly so, may I add]

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