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What Makes People Look Like Their Pets?
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Posted on 08/20/2014 1:04:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The eyes are a window to the ego.
f ever you overhear someone comparing you to a dog, chances are it’s not a compliment. Yes, there’s the famous loyalty of dogs, their unbridled enthusiasm for life, their boundless love and devotion, their fierce protectiveness—qualities that any of us would be lucky to possess at even a modicum of their standard manifestation in the canine. Typically, though, it’s meant as a slight and a reference to some especially animalistic aspect of our four-legged friends. That assertive woman people call a “bitch,” for instance (a term that has always struck me as being dubious; some of my kindest, gentlest companions in this world have been female dogs), or the lowlife “cur” who cheated you in that game of poker the other night.
As much as we might quibble over the virtues and vices of Canis domesticus, however, and over whether human nature is any better or worse than dog nature, even dog fanciers don’t usually want to look like a dog. The hair of a poodle, the jowls of a bulldog, the bug eyes of a pug, the wrinkles of a Shar-Pei, the profile of a collie, the street-sweeping udders of a lactating mongrel … none of these traits are considered beautiful when incarnated in our own species. Still, if we look in the mirror, each of us can expect to find a certain doggy je ne sais quoi staring back at us. Those of us who own a dog, anyway. And we don’t resemble just any old dog, either. Rather, we look somehow, in a can’t-quite-put-your-finger-on-it kind of way, like our own dogs.
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TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: dogs
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To: nickcarraway
What makes people write like a b*tch?
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posted on
08/20/2014 1:10:48 PM PDT
by
Fester Chugabrew
(Even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.)
To: nickcarraway
I've often wondered.
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posted on
08/20/2014 1:14:01 PM PDT
by
South40
(Hillary Clinton was a "great secretary of state". - Texas Governor Rick Perry)
To: South40
ROFLMAO - That is a good one, ha ha ha!!
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08/20/2014 1:17:05 PM PDT
by
bergmeid
To: South40
I fail to see the resemblance.
Perhaps if you turned the dog around?
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posted on
08/20/2014 1:21:58 PM PDT
by
xrmusn
((6/98)a GUN is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one-probably never need one again.)
To: xrmusn
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08/20/2014 1:27:20 PM PDT
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South40
(Hillary Clinton was a "great secretary of state". - Texas Governor Rick Perry)
To: South40
God that is one ugly-looking beast. And the dog doesn’t look that good either.
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08/20/2014 1:47:58 PM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
08/20/2014 2:07:28 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: Opinionated Blowhard
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08/20/2014 2:09:27 PM PDT
by
right way right
(America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
To: Joe 6-pack; Slings and Arrows
To: nickcarraway
LOL I’m not fat, I’m... FLUFFY?
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08/20/2014 2:27:14 PM PDT
by
KGeorge
(Till we're together again, Gypsy girl. May 28, 1998- June 3, 2013)
To: nickcarraway; GeronL; Slings and Arrows
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posted on
08/20/2014 2:28:41 PM PDT
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a fool in paradise
(ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
To: xrmusn
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posted on
08/20/2014 2:29:05 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
To: nickcarraway
The resemblance between Rufus and myself is fleeting and coincidental
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08/20/2014 2:41:26 PM PDT
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BigEdLB
(Now there ARE 1,000,000 regret.s - but it may be too late.)
To: nickcarraway
To: Organic Panic
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08/20/2014 3:06:51 PM PDT
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debrawiest
(Because a sinless Savior died, my sinful soul is counted free.)
To: AnAmericanMother; Titan Magroyne; Badeye; SandRat; arbooz; potlatch; afraidfortherepublic; ...
WOOOF!
The Doggie Ping list is for FReepers who would like to be notified of threads relating to all things canid. If you would like to join the Doggie Ping Pack (or be unleashed from it), FReemail me.
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08/20/2014 3:55:48 PM PDT
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Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: Organic Panic
Yes it’s a dog thread, but there’s a special place in hell for those who post pics of HT...and if memory serves, it’s akin to a zottable offense on FR for not posting a warning...
Just sayin’...;^)
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08/20/2014 4:00:39 PM PDT
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SZonian
(Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
To: xrmusn
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08/20/2014 4:01:04 PM PDT
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SZonian
(Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
To: Organic Panic
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08/20/2014 4:03:05 PM PDT
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ErnBatavia
(It ain't a "hashtag"....it's a damn pound sign, number sign, or octothorpe. ###)
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