" Taking the Mick " or " taking the Mickey " is thought to be a rhyming slang form of " taking the piss ", where " Mick " came from " Mickey Bliss ".

Mickey features as the centric character in the short story " Taking Mickey " from the Doctor Who Files series of hardbacks from BBC Children's Books.

Taking field hollers and other basic Americana-based lyrical content ( with plentiful helpings of cursing and lewd rhyming, such as " My dick's as hard as Chinese arthimetic "), Mule tied them to the stripped-down, but loud and noisy guitar of P. W.

Taking broad-spectrum antibiotics can reduce vitamin K production in the gut by nearly 74 % in people compared with those not taking these antibiotics.

Taking to the seas at the age of 18, Bering travelled extensively over the next eight years, as well as taking naval training at Amsterdam.

Taking advantage of the chaos and his neighbour's weakness, Duke Bretislaus I of Bohemia, invaded and ravaged the country: Lesser and Greater Poland were severely pillaged, Poznań was captured and Bretislaus sacked Gniezno, taking the relics of Saint Adalbert, Radim Gaudentius and other five eremites with him.

In Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach, there is a narrative between Achilles and the Tortoise ( characters borrowed from Lewis Carroll, who in turn borrowed them from Zeno ), and within this story they find a book entitled " Provocative Adventures of Achilles and the Tortoise Taking Place in Sundry Spots of the Globe ", which they begin to read, the Tortoise taking the part of the Tortoise, and Achilles taking the part of Achilles.

Within this narrative, which itself is somewhat self-referential, the two characters find a book entitled " Provocative Adventures of Achilles and the Tortoise Taking Place in Sundry Spots of the Globe ", which they begin to read, the Tortoise taking the part of Achilles, and Achilles taking the part of the Tortoise.

Taking the catch counts as taking the wicket, the bowler gets no credit.

Taking an interest in drawing, from about the age of 12, he began taking evening classes at Lambeth School of Art under the tutorship of Philip Connard.

Taking a generous starting date of ~ 1810 when introductions could have started, and taking into account that Lewis and Clark did not even return from their expedition until 1806, gives roughly a 60-year period of possible introductions.

Taking the right action at the wrong time can sometimes be almost as bad as taking the wrong action at the right time.

Taking the bishop with 5. Kxe6 allows the long-threatened fork 5 ... Nd4 +, while taking the knight with 5. Kxc6 allows the skewer 5 ... Rc8 + followed by 6 ... Rxc2.

Hostage taking is similarly a crime of universal jurisdiction under the International Convention against the Taking of Hostages.

Taking potassium with meals or taking a microencapsulated form of potassium may reduce gastrointestinal side effects.

Taking a strong line which it considered to be inspired by Vladimir Lenin's work on the relationship between imperialism and reformism, the early ideas of the RCP had it that the " only hope of securing any decent sort of life-or even guaranteeing survival-lies in the working class taking control over society ".

Composing was always a difficult process for the author who described his method while writing Moby-Dick as follows: " Taking a book off the brain is akin to the ticklish & dangerous business of taking an old painting off a panel — you have to scrape off the whole business in order to get at it with safety.

Image: BAF Taking The Oath, Algeria 1944. jpg | Crews taking the oath of allegiance, Algeria-1944.

File: Woolly-necked Stork ( Ciconia episcopus ) taking off from the fields near Hodal I. jpg | Taking off from the fields near Hodal in Faridabad District of Haryana, India

Image: Yellow Bittern ( Ixobrychus sinensis )- Taking off at Kolkata I IMG 2650. jpg | Male taking off in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Image: Yellow Bittern ( Ixobrychus sinensis )- Taking off at Kolkata I IMG 2651. jpg | Male taking off in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Taking also includes attempting to take wild animals or assisting another person in taking wild animals.

Taking the disguise of Auggie the Adorable Aardvark ( a spoof of Sonic the Hedgehog ), it attacked MEGAS because it considered it to be a threat to its germination process, later multiplying and taking the guises of the other Thanksgiving parade balloons.

Taking both languages together until the end of the nineteenth century, and taking into account all the monastic documents, literature in the widest sense of the term, and texts in " near-Chinese " ( hentai-kanbun ), it is entirely possible that the sheer volume of texts written in Chinese in Japan slightly exceed what was written in Japanese.

He appeared in the HBO Films production of Taking Chance, a film based on a story of the same name written by Lieutenant Colonel Michael Strobl, an American ' Desert Storm ' war veteran.

Taking a combined 29 % BCA / personal stake in Group Lotus, Wickins negotiated with the Inland Revenue, and then brought in new investors: merchant bank Schroeder-Wagg ( 14 %); Michael Ashcroft, Baron Ashcroft's Bermudan operating company Benor ( 14 %); Sir Anthony Bamford of JCB ( 12 %).

Today, in addition to Young, it is home to such artists as Devendra Banhart, Green Day, Deftones, Michael Bublé, Enya, Mastodon, Eric Clapton, Fleetwood Mac, Serj Tankian, Josh Groban, Charice, Cavo, Taking Back Sunday, HIM ( also on Sire ), My Chemical Romance and Disturbed.

Taking advantage of this situation, Michael I of Epirus, a former ally of Boniface, attacked the kingdom in 1210, as did the Bulgarians.

* In the Ang Lee film Taking Woodstock, it is established that Eli Teischberg and his family knew Michael Lang, the organizer of the Woodstock music and art festival, from their childhood in Bensonhurst.

Taking a pay cut, she and her boss Lewis Freedman produced what author Michael Davis called " a series of teach-ins on major issues ".

After retiring from football, Thomas set up his own security service, called Stop Taking the Michael ( limited partnership ), with Nigel Spackman, which he runs to this day by himself, due to a falling out over expense claims with Nigel.

Taking over from her was Michael Jackson with his Number Ones collection.

Taking advantage of the internal political and personal disputes in IMRO, Katehakis and Karavangelis initially succeeded to recruit some IMRO former members and to organize guerrilla groups, that were later reinforced with people sent from Greece and thus were mainly composed of ex-officers of the Hellenic Army, volunteers brought from Crete, from the Mani area of the Peloponnese, as well as Macedonian Greeks, such as Evangelos Natsis from the village of Asprogia, Lazaros Apostolidis from Kastoria, Captain Giaglis from Ierissos, Konstantinos Kottas from the village of Roulia, Florina Prefecture ( a former adherent of the IMRO ), Michael Sionidis, Captain Ramnalis, Pantelis Papaioannou, Stefanos Papagalos from Veria, Dimitrios Dalipis from Kastoria, Pericles Drakos from Kavala, Christos Dellios, Christos Argyrakos and many more.

* The Left Hand of God ( book ) ( full title: The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right ), a 2006 book by Rabbi Michael Lerner

: Michael T. Regan's " We ’ re Taking Poe Back "

2009: Kevin Bacon – Taking Chance as Michael Strobl

Taking their last name, Michael and Robert grew up anonymously first in Manhattan and then ( after 1961 ) in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.

* 2009 Plague Over England with Michael Feast and Celia Imrie, Collaboration and Taking Sides, with Michael Pennington and David Horowitz, and Endgame with Mark Rylance, Simon McBurney, Miriam Margolyes and Tom Hickey.

Taking account of the fact that such a move on our part would be unpopular in world opinion, he argued that the responsibility of the United States is `` to do, confidently and firmly, not what is popular, but what is right ''.

Taking the streetcar back to Kaiser's Fountain, I walked ahead, then left down the street opposite St. Sophia and just beyond the corner came to a small, one-story building with a red-tile roof, which is the entrance to the Sunken Palace.

Taking alienation as a dependent variable, with what socio-structural factors is it most highly associated??

Taking of abalone is not permitted south of the mouth of the San Francisco Bay.

Taking from the fact that amongst this community this is known as the romantic orientation, the prefixes of homo -, hetero -, bi -, pan -, poly -, demi-and a-have been used to form terms such as heteroromantic, biromantic and so on.

::: Taking the first or even the second strike without swinging is not unusual.

Thus, for instance, the Taking Children Seriously movement has criticised pedagogic coercion by adults, including parents, on children, holding that it is possible and desirable to act with a child in such a way that all activities are consensual.

The Islamic creed is the Shahadah, the proclamation لا اله الا الله محمد رسول الله ( lā ʾilāha ʾillà-llāh, muḥammadun rasūlu-llāh ) – “ There is no god but Allah ; Muhammad is Allah's messenger .” Taking this creed is one of the five pillars of Islam.

Taking thirty to forty-five minutes each way, the round trip is slightly more than long and the Arch is completely hidden from view on most of this trail.

: Taking the Principle of the Excluded Middle from the mathematician ... is the same as ... prohibiting the boxer the use of his fists.

Chase describes music from this period, “ Taking the guitar as his instrumental model, and drawing his inspiration largely from the peculiar traits of Andalusian folk music – but without using actual folk themes – Albéniz achieves a stylization of Spanish traditional idioms that while thoroughly artistic, gives a captivating impression of spontaneous improvisation ... Cordoba is the piece that best represents the style of Albéniz in this period, with its hauntingly beautiful melody, set against the acrid dissonances of the plucked accompaniment imitating the notes of the Moorish guslas.

Taking into account its structure, flow of subject matter and emphases, one interpretation of the Lord's Prayer is as a guideline on how to pray rather than something to be learned and repeated by rote.

Taking the study of perception as his point of departure, Merleau-Ponty was led to recognize that one's own body ( le corps propre ) is not only a thing, a potential object of study for science, but is also a permanent condition of experience, a constituent of the perceptual openness to the world.

Moncton is briefly mentioned in the movie " Taking Lives " ( 2004 ) starring Angelina Jolie, when the killer boards a train from Montreal to Moncton.

Taking many of his achievements into consideration, Mehmed is widely known as the " second founder " of the Ottoman Empire.

Taking a year to be of this 6940-day cycle gives a year length of 365 + + days ( the unrounded cycle is much more accurate ), which is slightly more than 12 synodic months.