Photo here.
Exhibits:
- OED: 1888 B. L. Burnett From Stable Boy xxvii. 148, I was layving..without going to the zider cask in the back-houze.
- Wikipedia: Der Begriff Messie-Syndrom (von englisch mess „Unordnung, Durcheinander“, die korrekte englische Bezeichnung lautet Compulsive Hoarding) bezeichnet schwerwiegende Defizite in der Fähigkeit, die eigene Wohnung ordentlich zu halten und die Alltagsaufgaben zu organisieren; es können ernsthafte seelische Störungen vorliegen. Umgangssprachlich werden Personen mit diesem Syndrom kurz Messies genannt. „Messie-Syndrom“ ist ein von den Medien geförderter, umgangssprachlicher Ausdruck, der auch in der psychotherapeutischen Fachwelt zunehmend verwendet wird.
Just after Messi began his Barcelona career I conducted a sustained campaign to get the now textiles ex to produce t-shirts depicting the talented dwarf living amidst piles of newspapers and other shite. These I volunteered to distribute to Real Madrid fans via the Ivory Coast mafia. But professional pride came before easy profits.
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August 24th 2012 12:11
He actually had these cats in Fürth, although they have now been taken to Nuremberg.
Prior to this I had heard of herding cats but not hoarding cats.
August 24th 2012 13:03
I’m sorry, but search engines just hate Fürth.
Should cat hoarding be taught in business school? Where’s the market in compassion headed?
August 24th 2012 13:11
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August 24th 2012 20:11
Oops, and I can’t even plead history:
August 24th 2012 20:14
The champion of the free press got there first: Goal ace Lionel: I really am so Messi. The Barcelona striker, who was recently crowned FIFA World Player of the Year and earns more than £500,000 a WEEK, lives on takeaways and never cleans up.
August 26th 2012 18:09
Is Messi’s hobby quantum physics? It would explain how he tunnels the ball so easily.
August 26th 2012 19:06
No, as far as I know Schrödinger only had one cat.
August 26th 2012 20:18
This conversation is ilLiSiD
August 26th 2012 21:44
MM, that explains why he never got it up to ball level. (Sorry, Trev :-)