My hounds shred any stuffies, rope toys, etc. So my house, while often covered in dog toys, is a veritable mine field. Bones, Kongs, big hard rubber toys. Nothing that squeaks though – the dogs kill anything that squeaks.
My 14 pound schipperke had no use for toys, didn’t even seem to understand the use of them, except for three things:
1) Her great love was tennis balls. She loved to own them and chase them. She would find them on walks, and in other people’s houses… suddenly she’d be trotting along with a tennis ball in her teeth, and I wouldn’t know where she picked it up. She would also brazenly take them away from strange dogs ten times her size.
2) Any toy that belonged to any dog we were visiting… She’d take their toys, and prance and run with them to get the other dog to give chase. And she loved those soft, thin hollow rubber ones, often from Spain, and would shred them in minutes.
3) Anything with a squeaker… she never played with them, she just grabbed them, tore them to bits, and then chewed up, and if I didn’t catch it, swallowed the squeaker. 10 minutes tops.
Otis will do that sometimes. Makes it really hard to get any sleep. Especially since any time you touch his head he jerks it up and away…doesn’t like his face touched. So if I try to gently move his head I’m likely to get a bruised nose.
Yeah, solid light-color wall should work. Or I just look to the side of my laptop display – big screen, so this image leaves plenty of plain margins wider than the image. Typical mirror-image retention sort of thing.
Age check: Does anybody besides myself remember the old black+white cartoons with mice and no soundtrack beside a piano playing in tempo with the action on the screen ?
The local TV station used to play Kiddie cartoons right after school (1950’s) A lot of the cartoons were like that and often were incomplete or broke down in mid-broadcast.
As I’ve heard it, it’s not his “real” name, but what he was originally named, though only for the first couple of years.
Then his actual name was changed to Goofy … it wasn’t a nickname, or an alias, but the official name that would be on his driver’s license, if anyone were foolish enough to issue him one.
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“Someone took a bite out of Pookie. Can you fix him?”
Of course, we have no way of knowing who did that…
My hounds shred any stuffies, rope toys, etc. So my house, while often covered in dog toys, is a veritable mine field. Bones, Kongs, big hard rubber toys. Nothing that squeaks though – the dogs kill anything that squeaks.
My 14 pound schipperke had no use for toys, didn’t even seem to understand the use of them, except for three things:
1) Her great love was tennis balls. She loved to own them and chase them. She would find them on walks, and in other people’s houses… suddenly she’d be trotting along with a tennis ball in her teeth, and I wouldn’t know where she picked it up. She would also brazenly take them away from strange dogs ten times her size.
2) Any toy that belonged to any dog we were visiting… She’d take their toys, and prance and run with them to get the other dog to give chase. And she loved those soft, thin hollow rubber ones, often from Spain, and would shred them in minutes.
3) Anything with a squeaker… she never played with them, she just grabbed them, tore them to bits, and then chewed up, and if I didn’t catch it, swallowed the squeaker. 10 minutes tops.
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Never happens. I usually end up with Buddy’s butt up there.
Otis will do that sometimes. Makes it really hard to get any sleep. Especially since any time you touch his head he jerks it up and away…doesn’t like his face touched. So if I try to gently move his head I’m likely to get a bruised nose.
LOL!
Nada.
Same.
Maybe you have to look at something in particular, like, say, a white background, or at least a solid color.
Yeah, solid light-color wall should work. Or I just look to the side of my laptop display – big screen, so this image leaves plenty of plain margins wider than the image. Typical mirror-image retention sort of thing.
I found that I had to blink a few times while looking at something that has a solid colour…
Tried all that… still nothing.
It starts to blink or shake while I’m staring at it… that might be my eyes defense against retaining it.
Dang! All these things that I shouldn’t eat any more than a bite of one.
…one each?
I wish!
Circle of Desserts… Wayne Thibaud, oil, 1992
“…and lead me not into temptation…”
“…I already know the way, follow me!”
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Looks as if Mickey’s playing some Rachmaninoff.
Is he a maninoff or a mouseinoff?
Thereby hangs a tail…
Age check: Does anybody besides myself remember the old black+white cartoons with mice and no soundtrack beside a piano playing in tempo with the action on the screen ?
I almost remember them, vaguely, I think. It’s fuzzy. However, my grandfather used to play piano for the silent movies in his town.
Yes… though I can’t say I saw them when they were made, and you probably didn’t either, which I think was the 1930s!
No matter.. that doesn’t mean I’m not old!
The local TV station used to play Kiddie cartoons right after school (1950’s) A lot of the cartoons were like that and often were incomplete or broke down in mid-broadcast.
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Be sure not to draw any of them in a location where they would be expected to be on a semi-normal human.
The eyes have to match?
If I understood the directions correctly, they do not. Neither do the ears.
We keep typing the same things at the same times!
Sorry.
S’okay.
No, they shouldn’t.
Note that it says “repeat for second eye”, and again for the ears.
Also note that this would look nothing like a Picasso, but hey…
Okay, it was late…
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I remember “Dippy Dog” being Goofy’s real name! It came up in “The Goofy Success Story” comic. (I don’t think I have that one any more…)
As I’ve heard it, it’s not his “real” name, but what he was originally named, though only for the first couple of years.
Then his actual name was changed to Goofy … it wasn’t a nickname, or an alias, but the official name that would be on his driver’s license, if anyone were foolish enough to issue him one.
It was explicit in the comic that the studio changed his name to Goofy.– like Archie Leech and Marion Morrison…
A lot of things happen on the road to stardom.
We can’t always know the truth.
Meanwhile.. Dippy to Goofy.
Better or worse?
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That is definitely the place to go if you want to be “where the action is.”
Is Frodo about to throw a ring into that thing?
I’m keeping an eye on you. Remember, 5-second rules don’t count around dogs!
Who needs five seconds?
Buddy has caught them in mid air.
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Giddyup Ma! Faster! Faster! Wheeee!
The Polar Bear is now considered to be the only aquatic bear.
I would love that as a large framed picture, if I had the wall space for it.
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That’s who I got too!
I’m pretty sure she’s Bob Hope’s wife, Dolores.
(Tried to save this as a spoiler, but I can only figure out how to do the spoiler title. Sorry.)
Yes…. I was just going to say the same.
R/C hovercraft
Looks like fun. It would be better with 2 out there.
Don’t show a Ukrainian that.
They’ll figure out how to strap a grenade to it.
see the dancer?
Got her!
Yes.
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I wonder who was staring out there first?
Is Santa coming?
Now THAT’S a dog!
Not what i meant to post, but i’ll leave it up.
The original version of “Hound Dog”
“Bear Cat” (the reason Sun Records had to sell Elvis’ contract to R.C.A.).
Now if Claude can just lure the EWC into lying in that chair …
It might just launch him like a missile!
With my luck the EWC would land on my face. Claws first.
don’t jinx yourself!—-you never know when the EWC strikes
the actual and original Evil White Catâ„¢
Street scene, Copenhagen. Ole Ring (Danish, 1902-1972), Oil on canvas, 56 x 46 cm (22 x 18 in).
‘Bad Hare Day’ Bunny.
He’s too cute to be bad.
‘You’re Not My Mother!’ – Photograph by Randy Herman.
That was the caption that came with the photo, I would also consider “Could You NOT!!! Don’t you know I sleep during the day!!!” To be appropriate.
how about little Richard?
Keep a Knocking
but you can’t come IN….