Happy Festivus

[Kat]

It is that time of the year and so I will break out the pole and we can do the airing of the grievances. I've been bitchy enough lately so someone else can take the pole and start the celebration.

Ready... Set.... RANT!!!

[Jody Gomez]

We should get Dennis Miller over here.

[Tenyamc]

People who bring their dogs everywhere they go. Including my house (where I do not keeps dogs inside) on my new hardwood floors.

:roll:

Anyway, we didn't hold an airing of grievances, but we did have feats of strength this week. Very entertaining.

[Dragonfly]

Tenyamc:

People who bring their dogs everywhere they go. Including my house (where I do not keeps dogs inside) on my new hardwood floors.

I just don't allow people to bring dogs into my house, that's strictly forbidden.

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

How about people and relatives who talk bad about you all year long, then want to celebrate Christmas and the holidays with you in group - so maybe they can talk bad about you (and others) some more after they leave?

They seem so hurt when you have no interest and say so clearly.

Bah!

I'd vastly prefer to watch "I Love Lucy" reruns on TV - and I don't even like them all that much.

No, better yet. They can bring their dogs. The dogs can stay, but they can't.

Michael

[Kat]

I just hate it when the ex completely ignores his kids for years, doesn't even call them on Christmas or their birthdays, yet has the legal right to prevent us from moving out of the state or even the county. Our friggin nanny government is in the pocket of deadbeat dads!

[Barbara Branden]

Good grief! Is this an anti-dog forum? And you people call yourselves Objectivists! I'm going to pull rank: Ayn Rand always welcomed my dogs to her home -- as any rational person would do.

Don't you know what "dog" spells backward?

[Kevin Haggerty]

I can only get my dog to spell things forward, so far, but he might be a little behind the curve...

[Dragonfly]

Ayn Rand always welcomed my dogs to her home -- as any rational person would do.

Are you implying that I'm not a rational person?

[Kat]

Well, with the exception of Barbara's bulldog (MSK), I feel that having a dog-free zone is in the best interests of the Kat.

Kat

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Dragonfly,

How can a bug be rational?

Michael

[Barbara Branden]

Dragonfly, I'm not implying it, I'm saying it! Reason, Objectivism, and I require that you welcome the mangiest dog into your hearth and home. Clearly, you are a whim-worshipping subjectivist who is on the death premise.

(Lord, I hope I don't need to insert a smiley face.)

[Roger Bissell]

Barbara, I'm disappointed in you. Your aversion to smileys only confirms my deepest fears about your malevolent universe premise.

REB, the Ironic

[Dragonfly]

Oh well, I guess I've no sense of American humor...

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Dayaamm!

Is dragonfly actually a flea in drag?

:?

Michael

[Roger Bissell]

I don't allow dogs to come into my residence either.

Nope, none, nada, nix, fuggeddaboudit.

I am highly allergic to dog fur or "dander" or whatever

the stuff is that they exude. My eyes water and swell

up and I'm miserable until they leave. It's just about

as bad as the reaction I got from reading CRAP (code

for a book we all know and love :-).

For this reason, I do not have a "best friend." But

I do have a next-best friend, and that is my

wife, Becky, who is (blessedly) as far from a dog

as anyone could ever hope for. :!:

My daughter's pet rat died a couple of weeks ago,

and we will be getting a (read: one and only one)

pet kitten for her pretty soon. For whatever reason,

I don't have the same reaction to cats that I do to

dogs, though I do confess to being creeped out when

I visit friends who have an army of pet cats in their

house. Way too much pu...well, you know what I

mean. :twisted:

Cheers, y'all!

REB