A bee in my bonnet

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  1. Arroryn

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    Ah, so you DO want to die in agony then?
     
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  2. BosonMichael
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    "Yes, Brain, but what does this have to do with running around in their underwear with a flaming pitchfork?" :eh
     
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  3. twizzle

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    All i can say to that is "POIT" and "BOINK!"

    Brain "This is the earth. And this is Pinky. You can tell the difference quite easily. One is a lump of inert matter hurtling blindly through the void. The other... is the earth"
     
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  4. Mitzs
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    Mitzs Ducktape Goddess

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    :blink I can't belive you have that dam thing still after all this time.

    Do what you will. Beforwarned though, if someone does end up calling me daft, it will be you I come looking for. And I won't be coming alone. :dry

    Arr, theres a round trip ticket waiting for you at "Kicks mike arse united airways." Be ready hun. :biggrin
     
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  5. ffreeloader

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    Yeah, look out. She will bring Banshee with her, and then you will be in trouble..... Why? You'll have two hormonal females to deal with. :twisted: :biggrin
     
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  6. Mitzs
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    Mitzs Ducktape Goddess

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    Ohhhhhh, you forgot about Arr! I hear the steel toes boot being pulled on. They are always a nice reminder to let you know arr is in the house.:biggrin

    Banshee may be a Pit, but neither her or smokey have not one agressive bone towards humans in their body. The think all humans love them just as much as their mom and dad does. Watch dogs they are not. Well maybe they are. They would certain watch someone carry our stuff off if they just petted them and gave them a meaty bone. :biggrin
     
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  7. BosonMichael
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    I didn't still have it... it's still on Tech-Unity! I've got it ready to launch on my PC at work, so it won't appear until Wednesday. :D

    If someone calls you daft, I'll be the first in line to whoop 'em. :box2

    ...then you can proceed to whoop me. :unsure
     
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    No, three... Arro will come lookin' for me too. 8)
     
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  9. Mitzs
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    Dam it! I thought I had deleted that section of it. :biggrin

    I'm not too worry about it the rest of it. My friends here are true. I know no one would ever intentionally hurt me and I trust you to deal with those who would try. :)
     
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    You know it!

    First, I'll chew 'em up a bit after they mess with you... :croc

    Next, I'll give 'em some of this... :hammert

    Then I'll lay on my mad ninja skillz... :kar

    As they try to run away, I'll whip out some of this... :gun

    When they fall to the ground, I'll make 'em look like this... :knife

    ...place them in one of these... :behead

    ...and for the grand finale: :blowingup

    Afterwards, there won't be much left to cart off. :brancard
     
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  11. ffreeloader

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    LOL. Every dog I've ever had has been the same way. First, Prince, then Toby, and then Duke. They were all the same kind of watch dogs.

    Well, I take that back about Duke, at least in some respects. When he was about 2 years old we moved to a house in a neighborhood on a hillside. The house was about 15 feet above the street, and there was a retaining wall about 4' high near the street. We were all sitting out there taking a break from unpacking stuff when the guy that had the paper route drove up and delivered a paper to the neighbor across the street.

    He had stopped in the middle of street, and when he came back I asked him if he had any spare papers because I would like to subscribe to the paper right then and there. He said, yeah, and reached into the car, picked up a paper and tossed it to me. Duke was sitting right beside me and he let out a growl and leaped off the wall at the guy. His first jump took him to within about 3 feet of the guy. I started telling Duke No, No, No, and he stopped with his nose in the guy's crotch. That guy literally turned white. Duke just turned around, jumped back up on the retaining wall, and sat down again as if nothing had happened.

    I couldn't believe what he had done. He'd never shown any indication that he had agressive bone in his body, but he had decided that the guy was attacking me, and went for him. It was his first, and last, act of aggression like that.

    I never even saw him start a fight with another dog. I saw him end every fight that other dogs started him, but he never started a fight. He had a move that was the slickest I've ever seen a dog make. He'd make one quick move, have the dog by the underside of his throat, and flip him on his back. Then he'd just hold him there until the other dog decided that it wasn't too wise to continue to fight when his entire throat was in Duke's mouth. He didn't fight to kill or hurt, just to force submission, even when he was attacked. When the other dog submitted Duke would let him up and not show a further sign of aggresion toward the dog.

    Now, the reason for the guy turning white. Duke was half Malemute, a quarter wolf, and one quarter German Shepherd. He looked almost exactly like a white wolf, except his head had the cranial structure of a Husky, so it was broader than a wolf's. He weighed in at between 160 and 170 lbs. If he hadn't stopped he'd probably have come close to killing the guy before I could have moved.

    He was one cool dog. He rarely barked, but he would talk to you a lot. It sounded like growling coming from him because of his deep voice, but it wasn't. He'd be wagging his tail and giving every indication that he was happy to see you.

    It was really funny on Halloween nights. The kids had to come up a flight of steps to get to the front door and had to walk right past the gate into the back yard. Duke just loved kids, so he would be standing at the gate talking to them. The kids would squeeze as tightly against the opposte side of the steps against the railing, and then I'd open the door and say, Look out, he's really mean. They would just freak. Some of them would try to crawl through the railing on the other side of steps, and then I'd laugh and say, Go ahead and pet him. That's why he's standing there. He's not growling, he's talking to you. I was just teasing you that he's mean.

    They would stick out a very tentative finger, and he'd reach his head as far through the gate as he could and lick their finger. It would take another few minutes before they would make it to the door because they would be having so much fun with him. He'd make a lot of friends every Halloween night. When we would take him to the park and run him, or for something like fireworks or a concert, kids that had met him on Halloween nights would always be coming around to pet him.... He was pretty popular with the younger set.


    The other thing I remember about him that was really funny, and pretty amazing, was his relationship with the dog catcher. Duke like to lay down on the landing at the end of the steps up to the front door. (We never tied him up or put him on a leash. We had no need for it because he would just stay at home.) The landing itself was a part of the curb, and the dog catcher would come along and try to lure him out into the street so he could haul him off.

    Duke would just lay there with his chin on paws and look at him as if he though dog catcher was absolutely stupid. He'd lay there and lift his eyebrows when the dog catcher would call him, and then just not move. We watched it happen several times and finally the dog catcher came up to the house and told us that was best behaved dog he'd ever seen, and that he liked him. After that he never came by anymore.

    I really miss that old dog. He was quite a dog. Smart as a whip(but still only the second smartest dog I've ever had), but wouldn't do anything you told him to do unless he liked you. If he didn't, he would flat out ignore you, unless you threw a newpaper at me.... :D
     
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    And she's not afraid to travel oversee to come and get you.:twisted:
     
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  13. UCHEEKYMONKEY
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    I've forgotten what was the point of this thread???:blink

    Oh yes saying hello?

    did we decide if this is a good thing or a bad thing?:blink
     
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    I love that story freedy! And like you we have been blessed with some great animals too including a black cat we had I called Thomas B. He would teach all our puppies that they were not allowed on the furniture and it was very bad manners to mess with the cat of the house. :biggrin I miss that cat.
     
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