Another thread has been dedicated to the traditional Festivus “Airing of Grievances”. This thread is for the final tradion of the day: Feats of Strength. As defined in the Seinfeld series, the head of the household chooses one other person to wrestle. The person who is chosen is obligated to wrestle him/her, unless they have something better to do, like work a second shift at work that night. Festivus is not over until the head of the household is pinned by another celebrant.
Since we cannot wrestle physically on Pols, we can wrestle verbally. Colorado Pols — we bid you, as Head of this Household, what is our challenge?
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from the beej. I think I just lost. Just as well, pinning isn’t my style. 😉
Kudos to those among us who managed to avoid getting roped into the many pointless pissing matches with the Beej, no matter how tempting it may have been to try to set him straight.
Brownie points to Ralphie on this one.
Not strong.
Sometimes I must say to BJ, “Merry Christmas to you too, asshole. ”
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Never. Not once.
or dementia?
Over this past year reading, and sadly sometimes even commenting upon, the diaries and comments of (in no particular order):
MADCO,
BJWilson,
MADCO,
H-Man,
MADCO,
Libertad,
MADCO,
Steve Harvey,
MADCO,
JO,
MADCO,
Colawman,
MADCO,
Marilou,
MADCO, and,
Diogenesdemar
And, oh yeah, I watched an entire episode of Glen Beck University one evening.
are MADCO’s sock-puppets to boot…
But very, very strong.
Private Bell had vitamin supplements and water and at no time was his health in danger.
And
You look around at the end of a prize fight and the guy dancing around in the ring is the guy who won.
But we got a rescue dog for our three girls, Nancy. The puppy and all of her nine brothers and sisters were found by the side of a road in Kansas, brought here and quickly adopted.
If I could figure out how to post a picture, I would …
And sad, but good now!
Since I never posted a pic of my little cutie, here she is today. With her favorite duck, plastic bottle (I know, right?), and the floppy puppy she just destroyed. She loves the dismembered limbs of it.
Right after digging the squeaker out of it. It makes us very nervous. She always brings the severed limbs to us with such pride in her eyes.
I couldn’t get her away from. Figuring it was a stick, I let her pick it up. She likes to carry bits of trees around the neighborhood.
Half a block later a bunch of feathers go flying from her direction. Turns out it was part of a dead pigeon that was all around the block at this point.
She’s my first dog. I freaked out. My neighbors probably think I’m crazy for begging a dog to “drop it.” SHE ATE IT. It never touched the ground.
So I agree, the dismembered body parts are good for nervousness. Meanwhile, I keep a running list of dog things she’s done and call her by it. Pigeon Mouth Poo Foot. Thank God I suffer from a touch of OCD, otherwise I wouldn’t even know my local groomer.
It’s never good news.
My dogs dismember their plush toys too. The plush toy soccer type balls from Petco seem to have a slightly better life expectancy in my house since they don’t have any appendages.
My dogs were eating the plush sofa, and I realized, “How could they possibly know the difference?” Now, I just have tons of Kongs with treats inside and real bones. It helps a little.
She has a favorite duck I bought before I realized that, duh, puppies need hard things. The poor thing didn’t have a thing to really chew. Fixed now with a mix, but she still loves that duck. I’ll look into soccer balls; I’ll admit that the toys are for me, but I’d rather them not end up all over my house in pieces. 🙂
Not only are they rugged, dogs love to play with them.
She’s too dumb to get the treats out, but otherwise you guys are right. They’re great!
If so, congratulations! How wonderful. I bet the girls are thrilled.
Droll — the picture you posted below looks a lot like the Bennet’s dog, Pepper. What kind of dog is yours? The legs are short. Is she part Corgi? Such a cutie. If I had a dollar for every dismembered toy my dogs had…
My kids and friends and I delivered cookies to several fire stations today. We were fortunate to be there when the canine “unit” was there — a sweet golden lab trained for disaster rescue work. We were throwing his toy all over the bay — under things, over things, behind things, and marveling how fast he crawled, climbed, shimmied and sniffed it out. What an amazing dog. Dogs are awesome. (Well, except for my former neighbor’s kid-aggressive dog, but that’s another diary…)
So far today I have opened three bottles of champagne. The house is full of family, including two infants and a two y.o.
“full of family, two infants and a two year old” – three bottles sounds about right.
I need to change some code on my website and then I may post a couple of pics.
Gohgeous!
Is it just me, or are Coloradans crazy about dogs?
Those are my brothers little dogs. I take them with me when I am being a tourist or trying to meet new friends. Those pics were along the Potomac across from the Pentagon.
The one on the front page is Jenni. She is a rescue dog; due to neglect she is deaf. Her lack of hearing has lead to development of many other ways of coping. Instead of barking, which she can do at times, she has facial expressions. After doing what must be a doggy joke or if she is very happy a real smile shows up. She has a wide range of expressions, many more than any other dog I have seen.
Red is the other one, he takes care of her including taking her for walks. If we are some place that is safe I give him her lead and he walks her around. His self imposed duties include watching for food and danger. Occasionally he does forget to tell her food is available.
The two of them are very good examples of how canine pack animals will take care of their own. She relies on him for indications of other things that she cannot hear or sense from vibrations.
The two of them are sweet and gentle, the third lives with my niece and her family. However, he stays with us a lot. Taking the three of them for walks is wild. I keep Red and Jenni on a double lead which keeps them together and the third is on a separate lead, giving him lots of freedom, which he uses to a degree. When we are in crowds the three form up together, with Jenni in the middle.
As my niece puts it “in her world no one yells at her”.