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Loose dogs, having fun
"diddy" none wrote in message . .. "tiny dancer" spoke these words of wisdom in : "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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"Handsome Jack Morrison" wrote in message ... On 24 Dec 2007 12:26:54 -0500, (Melinda Shore) wrote: In article , Shelly wrote: What doggie presents? And who the **** is "all?" Would that include tiny's best {Jewish, Hindu, Moslem, atheist, pagan} friend on the internet? **** off. 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? td |
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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. -- Handsome Jack Morrison |
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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. -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community |
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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. -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community |
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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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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. -- Mark Shaw (And Baron) moc TOD liamg TA wahsnm ================================================== ======================= "Dogs need to sniff the ground; it's how they keep abreast of current 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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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.) -- Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence. |
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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 -- Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence. |
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