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Old December 24th 07, 06:54 PM posted to rec.pets.dogs.behavior
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"diddy" none wrote in message
. ..
"tiny dancer" spoke these words of wisdom in
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"Handsome Jack Morrison" wrote in
message ...
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 09:34:01 -0600, "Many Dogs \(flick\)"
wrote:

Later this a.m., they said they haven't seen him since yesterday

afternoon.

sigh



Sorry, this one gets a

spit

from me. Assholes.

So have all *normal* dog owners finished wrapping their doggie presents
yet? ;-]


td




Guess I'm not normal. My puppies get no presents. Neither will the humans.
But Tuck gets a birthday present Dec 28 .. he'll be TWO!



Two already! It seems like only yesterday we were worrying and worrying
about Tucks birth. And then the unfortunate *chicken incident*, wasn't it?
I remember you staying at your vets. So happy to hear he is now doing so
well, reading and everything!! Who'd a thunk, all that stressing would have
such a successful outcome.

We do presents for all the dogs. Started it with Murphy, and as the family
of dogs grew, so did Santa's list. Nyla bones for all, and a soft, squeaky
toy, plus some new, hopefully healthy, goodies wrapped up. I bought a big
bag of Mother Hubbard vegetable treats this year. First time I've tried
these. Does anyone have any experience with 'Mother Hubbard'? The
ingredients on the bag sounded very good.


td


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Old December 24th 07, 07:05 PM posted to rec.pets.dogs.behavior
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On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:57:45 -0500, "tiny dancer"
wrote:

[...]
Before Santa Claus kicks your ugly, scrawny asses with a 30 pound
chunk of coal!

--
Santa Claus



Hey Santa, what happened to that collection we took? 'member? The one to
*remove* all those big sticks up asses?


Lo siento.

Santa no habla.

--
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Old December 24th 07, 07:07 PM posted to rec.pets.dogs.behavior
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In article ,
Shelly wrote:
That made me feel *really* good, lemme tell ya', and I'm just a
garden variety "doesn't celebrate" sort of person. I can't imagine
how something like that would make folks feel who have an actual
*reason* not to celebrate Teh Jeebs' birthday.


I was at the vet's office this morning to pick up some
Interceptor for my incredibly goyische dogs. Someone else
was there picking up flea stuff, and one of the vets asked
what we were doing taking care of that kind of thing and
said that we must already be ready for Christmas. I laughed
and said I was Jewish, and she said "Oh!" and started
talking about her own preparations. Which is, it seems to
me, as it should be. Acknowledge the differences, enjoy
your own holiday, and don't make your enjoyment of your
holiday contingent on everybody believing the same as you do
This "War on Christmas" crap is *incredibly* antisemitic,
as well as anti-everybody-who's-not-Christian. I'm going
over to some friends' house tomorrow. I'm glad that they
include me in their holiday traditions, and glad that it's
just as simple as that, with no expectation that it's my
tradition, too. It should be just plain old sharing.

I'm not sure where all this "Anybody who's not Christian can
kiss my ass" stuff comes from. I suspect that some of it
comes from the grand Christian proselytizing tradition and
some of it is part of the "If you're not with me you're
against me" crap that characterizes fundie conservatives.
At any rate I'll be glad when the holiday is over, not
because I have anything against Christmas or people enjoying
their own holidays but because of all the crappy, nasty,
hegemonic expectations that get laid on those of who don't
buy the New Testament.
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Old December 24th 07, 07:08 PM posted to rec.pets.dogs.behavior
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In article ,
tiny dancer wrote:
Hey Santa, what happened to that collection we took? 'member? The one to
*remove* all those big sticks up asses?


I really, really like how you enjoy celebrating the birth of
Jesus. Moving, that's what it is.
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Old December 24th 07, 07:31 PM posted to rec.pets.dogs.behavior
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Shelly wrote:

Anyway, I was gobsmacked last night when someone sent a message to
one of my mail lists that said, and I quote:

"A bah humbug to all!
To all who don’t celebrate this season in any way ;-)"


I celebrate January 2, when "this season" is over, and the only
remaining traces are the post-holiday sales, the dying trees
losing needles at the curb, and the surge in gym memberships in
order to lose the 7 lb picked up between Thanksgiving and New
Year's. I might feel differently if the ersatz holiday good
cheer and peace-on-earth feelings carried over after the
twinkle-lights are stowed in the attic, but I'm too old and too
cynical to expect that most of the proclaimers of good will will
be walking their talk.

I prefer Ebenezer's approach, but it's not widely acknowledged
nor remembered when we think of "Scrooge." Not the "bah, humbug"
part, this part: "He became as good a friend, as good a master,
and as good a man, as the good old city knew."

So bah, humbug to me, too.

FurPaw

--
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched,
every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense
a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

To reply, unleash the dogs.
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Old December 24th 07, 08:02 PM posted to rec.pets.dogs.behavior
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FurPaw wrote:
Shelly wrote:


Anyway, I was gobsmacked last night when someone sent a message to
one of my mail lists that said, and I quote:

"A bah humbug to all!
To all who don?t celebrate this season in any way ;-)"


I got a political one. A "best wishes for an environmentally
conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive,
gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice etc etc etc"
for one set of readers, and a "Merry Christmas" for the other
set. You can probably guess which set was which.

And this from someone who *knows* I'm an atheist, as well as
that I'm in the set she intended the "Merry Christmas" for.
Oh well.

You'd think people could put this kind of thing aside once in
a while, though.

I celebrate January 2, when "this season" is over, and the only
remaining traces are the post-holiday sales, the dying trees
losing needles at the curb,


We had a tradition in the Panama Canal Zone of having huge
bonfires shortly after the New Year. You'd hide or lock up
your tree (because roving bands of boys would steal them) and
let it get good and dry, and on the day of the bonfire the
whole neighborhood would collect in a parking lot or empty
field and burn them. When it was your turn you'd get as close
as you could to the fire, feeling its heat on your face, and
toss it in - and it'd go up like what seemed to be a solar
flare. After all the trees were in the fire and the flames
started to die down, the marshmallows would come out.

Good times, and a community event like this seems a lot more
respectful to the intended spirit of things than does leaving
the tree to be picked up by the trash guys, too. (Although I
do like the modern practices in some areas of mulching them
for community use, or providing fish habitats in local lakes.)

This is not a good Christmas - my SO's and my last surviving
parent just died - but it's good to remember things like this.

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events. The ground is a giant dog newspaper, containing all kinds of
late-breaking dog news items, which, if they are especially urgent, are
often continued in the next yard." - Dave Barry
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Old December 24th 07, 08:39 PM posted to rec.pets.dogs.behavior
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Shelly wrote:

Anyway, I was gobsmacked last night when someone sent a message to
one of my mail lists that said, and I quote:

"A bah humbug to all!
To all who don’t celebrate this season in any way ;-)"


The one I thought was funniest was posted somewhere on AOL over a decade
ago:

Best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low
stress, non-addictive, gender neutral winter solstice holiday, practiced
with the most joyous traditions of the religious persuasion of your
choice, yet with respect for the religious persuasions of others or
their choice not to practice religion at all;
and
a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated
recognition of the generally accepted calendar year, 1995, but not
without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose
contributions to our society have helped make America great, without
regard to the race, creed color, religious or sexual preference of the
wishes.

(This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal, it implies no
promises by the wishor to actually attempt to implement any of the
wishes for her/himself or others.)


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Old December 24th 07, 08:45 PM posted to rec.pets.dogs.behavior
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Melinda Shore wrote:
what we were doing taking care of that kind of thing and
said that we must already be ready for Christmas. I laughed
and said I was Jewish, and she said "Oh!" and started
talking about her own preparations. Which is, it seems to
me, as it should be. Acknowledge the differences, enjoy
your own holiday, and don't make your enjoyment of your
holiday contingent on everybody believing the same as you do


I couldn't agree more.

I'm not sure where all this "Anybody who's not Christian can
kiss my ass" stuff comes from. I suspect that some of it
comes from the grand Christian proselytizing tradition and
some of it is part of the "If you're not with me you're
against me" crap that characterizes fundie conservatives.


It's not exactly "fundie conservatives"; it is a specific portion of
*evangelical* Christians (not fundamentalists) who espouse a
principal/doctrine called Christian reconstruction, which is the
misguided notion that the mission of all Christians is to convert the
government to a Christian theocracy, and then that will cause Christ's
kingdom to be ushered in.

They forget the part of the New Testament where Jesus made it quite
clear that He was *not* a political messiah. And they forget that Jesus
even loved the people who did not believe in Him.

the other Melinda, who, oddly enough, has only come to see this after
moving out of a mainstream/liberal group into a fundamental separatist
group

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