Inspector Clouseau

One of the signs of a female dog going into heat is vaginal bleeding. What actually is causing the bleeding?

The 2010 'True Grit' movie is first class. My question is that the characters speak in a very flowery way with no contractions. Is this the way people actually spoke in the late 1800's? And if you have sources I'd be most appreciative if you included them.

Sometimes on hears of a "learned scholar". Is there any such thing as a "ignorant scholar"? Isn't this just a tautology?

I'm confused about the term "inflation tax". As inflation increases it obviously costs more to buy an item. Say you pay $1.00 this year and have to pay $1.10 next year for an item. Where does the 'tax' come in and does the government gain any direct benefit from the 'tax'?

In the movie the Dance emcee uses the phrase "yozza yozza yozza". How exactly is it spelled?

I've heard that many of the Predator unmanned aircraft in Afganistan are controlled out of Florida. There has to be a time lag between what the Predator 'see's', it's transmission to Florida, and then the transmission back to fire it's missiles. Wouldn't the target already be gone?

You mate a 100% Labrador Retriever with a 50% Labrador / 50% Golden Retriever mix. The litter consists of 8 puppies. Is there any chance that one of the puppies could be a full 100% Labrador (i.e. only inherited the Labrador genes)?

The phrases "The piano was drinking" or "the tree carried the world on its' shoulders", etc. have a word in English that describes these sorts of sentences. It's not metaphor and it's not exactly anthropomorphism. Does anyone know the term to describe such phrases? Thanks.

I've always wondered how a small business (e.g. mom and pop) values their business when selling it. Say you own a shoe store that sells $500,000 of shoes a year. Your salary and two employees is $100,000. Holding 'name value' of your store aside, what is the rule of thumb on setting a sale price for the store. One year of gross sales? A percentage thereof? Something else entirely?

Thanks.