A slang word used to describe executives who earn what many believe to be unreasonably high salaries and bonuses. These top executives also receive generous pensions and retirement packages, consisting of extra compensation not available to other company employees.
Tortoiseshell describes a coat coloring found almost exclusively in female cats. Cats of this color are mottled, with patches of orange or cream and chocolate, black or blue. They are sometimes called torties. A cat with this coloring, but also with the tabby pattern, is a torbie.
"Tortoiseshell" is typically reserved for cats with brindled coats with relatively small or no white markings.
Those that are largely white with red and brown patches (rather than a brindled aspect) are described as tortoiseshell-and-white (in the United Kingdom) or calico (in Canada and the United States). Tortoiseshells and calicos are not specific breeds of cat, though part tortoiseshell, part calico cats are known as "tortico" cats[citation needed] and may display a tortoiseshell pattern on the back and tail and a calico pattern on the belly.[citation needed] The tortoiseshell markings appear in many different breeds as well as in non-purebred domestic cats.[1] This pattern is especially preferred in the Japanese Bobtail breed.[2]
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Tortoiseshell cats have coats with patches of red, brown or black, chocolate, cream, or cinnamon. The size of the patches can vary from a fine speckled pattern to large areas of color. Typically, the more white a cat has, the more solid the patches of color. Dilution genes may modify the coloring, lightening the fur to a mix of cream and blue, lilac or fawn. The markings on tortoiseshell cats are usually asymmetrical. Occasionally tabby patterns of eumelanistic and pheomelanistic colors are also seen (these are often then called "tortie-tabby", "torbie" or, with white, "caliby"). Tortoiseshell also can be expressed in the point pattern.
A domestic shorthair tortie-tabby cat.
Frequently there will be a "split face" pattern with black on one side of the face and orange on the other, with the dividing line running down the bridge of the nose.
A shadow cat is a small filmy creature in the vague form of a domestic house cat. They are believed to be revenants or they may be living cats from another dimension.
They can only be seen from the corner of the eye, appearing as a shadow that quickly slips away when you look directly at it. They may also resemble a corporeal cat, but when you see one you're left thinking you saw something that wasn't there.
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Term CCLTD (crazy catlady till death) was originally founded by Finnish artist Sara Fabel and Australian model India rose to make fun of the Australian crews such as DTD (drunk till death).
It illustrates the preference of quiet home time with cats over drinking and partying.
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As early as the 1870s, British portrait photographer Harry Pointer created a carte de visite series featuring felines posed in various situations. To these he usually added amusing text intended to further enhance their appeal.[5] Other notable early figures include Harry Whittier Frees and (using mounted animals) Walter Potter.[6]
However, the first recorded use of the term "lolcat" is from the anonymous imageboard 4chan.[7][8][9] The word "Lolcat" is attested as early as June 2006, and the domain name "LOLcats.com" was registered on June 14, 2006.[10] Their popularity was spread through usage on forums such as Something Awful.[11] The News Journal states that "some trace the lolcats back to the site 4chan, which features bizarre cat pictures on Saturdays, or 'Caturdays'." Ikenburg adds that the images have been "slinking around the Internet for years under various labels, but they did not become a sensation until early 2007 with the advent of I Can Has Cheezburger?"[12] The first image on "I CAN HAZ CHEEZBURGER?" was posted on January 11, 2007, and was allegedly from the Something Awful website."[13][14] Lev Grossman of Time wrote that the oldest known example "probably dates to 2006,"[15] but later corrected himself in a blog post[16] where he recapitulated the anecdotal evidence readers had sent him, placing the origin of "Caturday" and many of the images now known by a few as "lolcats" in early 2005. The domain name "caturday.com" was registered on April 30, 2005.[citation needed]
The term lolcat gained national media attention in the United States when it was covered by Time, which wrote that non-commercialized phenomena of the sort are increasingly rare, stating that lolcats have "a distinctly old-school, early 1990s, Usenet feel to [them]".[17] Entertainment Weekly put them on its end-of-the-decade, "best-of" list, saying, "Da cutest distractshun of da decaid? Y, lolcats of corse! We can neber haz enuf of deez capshioned pics of cuddlie kittehs."[18] 'Lolcat' was also a runner-up under the "Most Creative" category under the American Dialect Society Word of the Year Awards, losing out to 'Googlegänger'.[19]
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As early as the 1870s, British portrait photographer Harry Pointer created a carte de visite series featuring felines posed in various situations. To these he usually added amusing text intended to further enhance their appeal.[5] Other notable early figures include Harry Whittier Frees and (using mounted animals) Walter Potter.[6]
However, the first recorded use of the term "lolcat" is from the anonymous imageboard 4chan.[7][8][9] The word "Lolcat" is attested as early as June 2006, and the domain name "LOLcats.com" was registered on June 14, 2006.[10] Their popularity was spread through usage on forums such as Something Awful.[11] The News Journal states that "some trace the lolcats back to the site 4chan, which features bizarre cat pictures on Saturdays, or 'Caturdays'." Ikenburg adds that the images have been "slinking around the Internet for years under various labels, but they did not become a sensation until early 2007 with the advent of I Can Has Cheezburger?"[12] The first image on "I CAN HAZ CHEEZBURGER?" was posted on January 11, 2007, and was allegedly from the Something Awful website."[13][14] Lev Grossman of Time wrote that the oldest known example "probably dates to 2006,"[15] but later corrected himself in a blog post[16] where he recapitulated the anecdotal evidence readers had sent him, placing the origin of "Caturday" and many of the images now known by a few as "lolcats" in early 2005. The domain name "caturday.com" was registered on April 30, 2005.[citation needed]
The term lolcat gained national media attention in the United States when it was covered by Time, which wrote that non-commercialized phenomena of the sort are increasingly rare, stating that lolcats have "a distinctly old-school, early 1990s, Usenet feel to [them]".[17] Entertainment Weekly put them on its end-of-the-decade, "best-of" list, saying, "Da cutest distractshun of da decaid? Y, lolcats of corse! We can neber haz enuf of deez capshioned pics of cuddlie kittehs."[18] 'Lolcat' was also a runner-up under the "Most Creative" category under the American Dialect Society Word of the Year Awards, losing out to 'Googlegänger'.[19]
Mr Haywood, the ginger cat that sat in the baby's seat, has been crowned Top Cat 2012. So what have we learned from our first feline photography competition?
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Mr Haywood: cat talent
Your winner! Well done to Mr Haywood, a very talented cat. Photograph: Simon Cox
You entered in your thousands, sharing fantastic photographs of young cats, old cats, fat cats, thin cats and even, God forbid, a dead stuffed cat (we didn't publish that one). Sifting through the pictures was difficult work - the cute factor was dangerously, almost fatally, high - but we persevered. Eventually we whittled the entries down to seven category winners, which we turned over to you, the readers, to judge.
The nation has spoken, and Mr Haywood is duly crowned the winner of Top Cat 2012. Congratulations to him and his photographer/owner, Simon Cox, who will receive two books by 'mad cat man' and Guardian columnist Tom Cox (no relation); thanks to everyone else for entering; and apologies that we couldn't publish all of your great efforts (do share them on our Flickr group if you didn't make the shortlists).
So what did we learn from our first feline photography competition? Quite a lot, actually:
1. Cats sleep in the strangest positions. The Sleeping Beauty category was the second most popular (after Cutest), and the standard of entries was exceptionally high. Surprisingly, lots of cats like being tucked up under the duvet. However ...
2. Cats don't like being dressed up. OK, we admit it, the Best Catcessory category was a mistake. Cats are just too dignified - and their claws too sharp - to dress them up in sweet little outfits. It's simply wrong. (Santa outfits at Christmas are the only exception to this rule.)
3. Not all cats are cute. They might be handsome or dignified instead, and we should have had a category to reflect this. King of the Jungle, perhaps? Also, kitty talents and acrobatic feats are quite hard to capture on camera - well done to those of you that managed it.
4. Cats really like sinks. Conventional wisdom has it that cats are averse to getting wet, but the many pictures we received of cats curled up in the bathroom sink suggest otherwise. They also like drinking water from anything other than their water bowl: a glass, a vase, the toilet etc. Oh, and they have very long tongues.
5. Guardian cats have great names. We liked the short ones - Dog or Sexy - and we liked the long ones, such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Parkinson.
That's it for this year. Should we do it all again next year, and if so, what categories should we include? Grumpiest cat? Fattest cat? Or does another animal deserve its moment in the sun (we've already done dogs)? Share your thoughts below.
And please, please stop sending your pictures now. We really must get some work done.
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