Download or read book Never Trust a Calm Dog, and Other Rules of Thumb written by Tom Parker and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 1990 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rule of thumb is a kind of recipe for making a guess with precision, an easy-to-remember rule that falls somewhere between a mathematical formula and a shot in the dark. This all new collection of more than 1,000 rules contributed from readers all around the country will endlessly delight and instruct.