Man's best friend
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"Man's best friend" is a catchphrase for dogs, generally referring to the category as a whole. The popularization of the term is said to have occurred in a courtroom speech in 1870[according to whom?] by George Graham Vest, in Warrensburg, Missouri, who said, "The one absolutely unselfish friend that a man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him and the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous is his dog."[citation needed] The phrase was later shortened to "man’s best friend".[citation needed] Vest's speech came at the closing of a trial, in which he was representing a farmer who was suing for damages after his dog Old Drum was shot[vague] by a neighbor.[1][2][3]
Works so titled
- A 1935 film about a boy and his dog.
- A 1951 animated short film starring Goofy.
- A 1993 horror film starring Ally Sheedy and Lance Henriksen.
- A 1980 musical album by Livingston Taylor.
- A 1998 award winning animated short film written, Directed, and animated by Ben Gluck.
- A 1999 TV series by Television Broadcasts Limited in Hong Kong.
- An animation episode made for the 2003 series Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon".
- A 2006 Japanese comic (yaoi manga) by Kazusa Takashima.
References
- ^ Coren, Stanley (2009-10-21). ""A Man's Best Friend is his Dog": The Senator, the Dog, and the Trial". Psychology Today. Retrieved 2010-09-27.
- ^ The Trial of Old Drum – New York Times Television Review – June 9, 2000
- ^ Martin, David (March 8, 2010). "I-70 in Missouri: Not just billboards and trucker-oriented porn". The Pitch.