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14949. thoughtful - 5/12/2005 9:16:45 PM Well of course german brings to mind german food, and esp for a little hot dog...bratwurst, weinerschnitzel...or call her cherry, like in a black forest cake.
Lady I worked with named her dog after their favorite baseball player...jeeter... i thought that was cute. And a rw goper I know named his dog maggie after margaret thatcher of course. Of course, had he asked margaret thatcher, I'm not sure she would've been pleased to know someone named a dog after her... 14950. PelleNilsson - 5/12/2005 9:30:27 PM Schlagzahne. Wurst. Knödl. Max (as in Strammer Max).
We've only had one dog, a stray we took in in Yemen. We called it Felix as in Arabia Felix. 14951. thoughtful - 5/12/2005 9:36:05 PM Felix was the name of an old cartoon cat here in the states...I remember watching them as a kid growing up. I guess it dates me now.
 14952. Ms. No - 5/12/2005 9:55:33 PM Felix the Cat!
The wonderful, wonderful cat
Whenever he gets in a fix,
he reaches into his bag of tricks
You'll laugh so much your sides will ache
Your heart will go pitter pat
Watching Felix, the wonderful cat.
I used to watch Felix when I was a kid --- but this was the Don Oriolo version from the late 50's. Every once in awhile they'd slip in some of the earlier works from the 20's and 30's.
I'd love to see a few of them now, I be they make great comentary on their time. I especially remember that the Professor in the Cold War Era episodes was always trying to amass Plutonium.
14953. thoughtful - 5/12/2005 10:09:52 PM thanks ms no for making me feel not quite so old...
Hubby is chopping out and replacing the subfloor in our foyer in prep for putting down porcelain tile. Under the plywood we found newspaper from 1954 when the house was built...at least that predates me. I'm working with some of these kids fresh out of college and I realize I've been with the firm longer than they've been on the face of the earth! What a shocker! 14954. arkymalarky - 5/13/2005 12:01:49 AM I used to watch Felix too. What makes me feel old is graduating seniors whose parents were students of mine. I guess I'll really feel old when I start teaching grandchildren of students.
Robert,
That's really interesting about your great-uncle. What do people do about SS#'s and such, I wonder, if they don't have names? 14955. arkymalarky - 5/13/2005 12:06:18 AM I'll get Bob to read this thread when we get home. He asked me to let him think of a name, which means we wait until I can't stand it, he comes up with zip, and I name the dog, after which he claims that I didn't let him name the dog.
In 24 years with a number of strays and a few we actually wanted, I'm very familiar with this routine. 14956. arkymalarky - 5/13/2005 12:11:40 AM Gee. My parents have DSL. It sort of makes you begin to understand why people clump together in masses like they do.
We have it at work, but since I don't Mote at work it's not so obvious what I'm missing at home--and everything else I would otherwise do at home, like checking news, etc, I do at work. 14957. arkymalarky - 5/13/2005 1:15:51 AM While I'm here on DSL, I want to make a general post, applicable to the other threads:
GREAT PICTURES, EVERYONE! 14958. robertjayb - 5/13/2005 2:15:50 AM Arky, In that time and place there probably wasn't much need for documentation. I suppose they picked it up as needed. I remember my parents, farm people, getting SSNs late in life. 14959. Magoseph - 5/13/2005 11:52:16 AM Posted by Mr. Porter at Mind's Eye Revisited:
Me and her
aradan/Nik (Aradan) 14960. uzmakk - 5/13/2005 1:51:50 PM I hope y'all don't hold it against me that I'm not here more often, but I thought I'd tell you that the news-talk show that I've been hanging with for a while now won best news-talk show in the state recently.(Associated Press Award?)
I was actually an employee for a short while,(years ago) but when I was selected as moderator of the forum the bitter, small-minded and envious masses who composed 95% of the forum rose against me. I was draconian in response and had a very enjoyable couple of days giggling to myself.(I have already expressed my shame at spending so much time with these particular people, however, the conversation concerning local politics is improving, a situation in which all Moties will surely take pleasure.) 14961. arkymalarky - 5/13/2005 2:49:05 PM We just miss you, Uz! Congrats on the award and (I suppose?) on your apparent forum house-cleaning. 14962. arkymalarky - 5/13/2005 2:53:55 PM Judith, Bob loved "Kashi," but he's still noncommittal wrt anything as a dog's name. I think he's just trying to irritate me. Don't know why he finds doing that so appealing. 14963. thoughtful - 5/13/2005 3:34:40 PM Way to go Uz! 14964. uzmakk - 5/13/2005 5:50:15 PM Thank you, Ladies. Arky, last time I was here your daughter posted in your stead that you were recovering from surgery and doing well. I hope all is well with you.
How is your political battle going? Mine is going interestingly and well.
Thoughtful, I recall that you once gave me a piece of political advice which you probably don't remember giving, but I think I remember it verbatum: "You can't beat the pols without becoming a pol." 14965. wonkers2 - 5/13/2005 5:53:12 PM Nice going UZ! In what state/city do you live? 14966. arkymalarky - 5/13/2005 6:01:17 PM Thanks, Uz. I'm really doing well, except for losing my little dog, which has been very upsetting and depressing. I'm almost completely recovered from the surgery. Yesterday the doctor told me to limit my activities to what hurts for the next three or four months, and that's it.
My political battle has gone to the long-term organization, foundation-building, and recruitment phase. We have non-profit status and the legislature will not meet again until the end of 2006, so we have a break from legislative battles.
Things are a mess with many of those district consolidations that did occur, for various reasons. I wrote a booklet that we published and presented at the capitol, and that didn't receive much praise or blame (we were very much ignored this session, but also very much avoided, which was good--consolidation is apparently now the "third rail" of education discussion in AR politics), but the material in it will continue to be useful to us.
All in all, it's less stressful, but less interesting. Of the two, after the past couple of years, I'd take the latter in a heartbeat. I'm glad it's finally slowed down.
I'm also glad to hear things are going well for your battle. You can build on those victories in the future, too. Some ground we lost last year we will never regain, but at least in this last session we held what ground we had. You may find, like Alice Through the Looking Glass, that you will have to run fast for a good while just to stay in one place. That's how this last session was for us. And we can't really stop now. We can just breathe a little better. 14967. thoughtful - 5/13/2005 6:10:19 PM hahahah...Uz, you're right. I don't remember giving that advice, but it still makes a lot of sense. 14968. judithathome - 5/15/2005 3:35:11 PM Well, I am truly a golf widow today...Keoni just left for the Byron Nelson and my friend who usually comes for Sunday breakfast is home sick with a cold. So I have a bottle of chilled champagne and a carafe of OJ and no one to drink mimosas with.....poor me.
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