This aphorism comes from Arthur Conan Doyle's mystery "Silver Blaze". where the clue was that the dog didn't bark in the night because the perp was the dog's owner.
Posted on 09/18/2011 6:49:41 AM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry
The disease that is the unmistakable sign of a president on the cusp of losing his re-election to the Land of Oz that is a second term in the White House. A looming loss always signaled by the telltale barking dogs of American politics.
What is Barking Dog Syndrome? What sets the dogs off? For that matter -- just who are these barking dogs in the first place?
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This aphorism comes from Arthur Conan Doyle's mystery "Silver Blaze". where the clue was that the dog didn't bark in the night because the perp was the dog's owner.
I do like your tagline, except comparing Obama to a dog is an insult to the dog.
Hear hear.
-Six Whiskey Tango
Odd, i thought that was from Hound of the Baskerville
Oh dear. I just realized that if Obama loses in 2012, he could come back and run again. Noooooooo
“The author is a poor writer. He uses sentence fragments for emphasis. He should learn how to use a semi-colon and the dash.”
It’s a trendy thing in novels these days.
I don’t understand the point, though. Why are writers afraid to use semi-colon and a dash?
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