Dead Cat (film)
Dead cat can refer to: * Dead cat bounce, a stock market phenomenon * Dead Cat Bounce, a comedy band * Dead cat strategy, a diversionary tactic in debate or news management * Dead cat windscreen or dead kitten windscreen, a type of microphone windscreen See also * '' 101 Uses for a Dead Cat'', a series of cartoons about dead cats * Schrödinger's cat In quantum mechanics, Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment concerning quantum superposition. In the thought experiment, a hypothetical cat in a closed box may be considered to be simultaneously both alive and dead while it is unobserved, ...

Dead Cat Bounce
In finance, a dead cat bounce is a small, brief recovery in the price of a declining asset. Derived from the idea that "even a dead cat will bounce if it falls from a great height", the phrase is also popularly applied to any case where a subject experiences a brief resurgence during or following a severe decline. This may also be known as a "sucker rally". History The earliest citation of the phrase in the news media dates to December 1985 when the Singaporean and Malaysian stock markets bounced back after a hard fall during the recession of that year. Journalists Chris Sherwell and Wong Sulong of the London-based ''Financial Times'' were quoted as saying the market rise was "what we call a dead cat bounce". Both the Singaporean and Malaysian economies continued to fall after the quote, although both economies recovered in the following years. The phrase was used again the following year about falling oil prices. In the ''San Jose Mercury News'', Raymond F. DeVoe Jr. proposed t ...
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Dead Cat Strategy
The dead cat strategy, also known as deadcatting, is the political strategy of deliberately making a shocking announcement to divert media attention away from problems or failures in other areas. The present name for the strategy has been associated with British former prime minister Boris Johnson's political strategist Lynton Crosby. Origin While he was mayor of London, Boris Johnson wrote a column for the 3 March 2013 edition of ''The Telegraph'' in which he described the "dead cat" as a piece of Australian political strategy about what to do in a situation in which the argument is being lost and "the facts are overwhelmingly against you". To understand what has happened in Europe in the last week, we must borrow from the rich and fruity vocabulary of Australian political analysis. Let us suppose you are losing an argument. The facts are overwhelmingly against you, and the more people focus on the reality the worse it is for you and your case. Your best bet in these circumstan ...
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Microphone
A microphone, colloquially called a mic (), or mike, is a transducer that converts sound into an electrical signal. Microphones are used in many applications such as telephones, hearing aids, public address systems for concert halls and public events, motion picture production, live and recorded audio engineering, sound recording, two-way radios, megaphones, and radio and television broadcasting. They are also used in computers and other electronic devices, such as mobile phones, for recording sounds, speech recognition, Voice over IP, VoIP, and other purposes, such as Ultrasonic transducer, ultrasonic sensors or knock sensors. Several types of microphone are used today, which employ different methods to convert the air pressure variations of a sound wave to an electrical signal. The most common are the dynamic microphone, which uses a coil of wire suspended in a magnetic field; the condenser microphone, which uses the vibrating Diaphragm (acoustics), diaphragm as a capacitor ...
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101 Uses For A Dead Cat
''101 Uses for a Dead Cat'', by Simon Bond (1947–2011), was a bestselling collection of macabre cartoons. 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?'" It consisted of cartoons depicting the bodies of dead cats being used for various purposes, including anchoring boats, sharpening pencils and holding bottles of wine. Release and sequels First published in the UK in 1981 as ''A Hundred and One Uses for a Dead Cat'', the collection was eventually republished in 20 countries and sold over 2 million copies.101 Uses for a Dead Cat. In ''Cartoonstock.''. Retrieved 14 September 2010 from http://www.cartoonstock.com/101_dead_cats/index.htm It spawned two sequels, ''101 More Uses for a Dead Cat'' and ''Uses of a Dead Cat in History'', as well as calendars featuring the cartoons and even a book in response called ''The Cat's Revenge - More Than 101 Uses for Dead People''. In 2006, a 25th anniv ...
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