Minutiae

[stoutfellow]

1. The spaghetti in tomato-bacon sauce is delicious.

2. Ben's been rambunctious the last couple of days. He found one of his favorite chew toys, and we've been playing quite a bit of Fetch, Chase, and Tug-of-War. (As Charlie Brown put it: "It's one thing to get a dog to chase a ball. It's another to get him to bring it back. It's still another to get him to drop it.")

3. It's funny what will disrupt the old Willing Suspension of Disbelief. I'm reading 1635: The Cannon Law, and just today noticed that there's a character named Benito - a young seventeenth-century Italian. Well and good, except that Benito isn't - or wasn't, in the 1600s - an Italian name; it's Spanish. (Benny the Moose was named after the Mexican hero Benito Juárez.) Took me completely out of the setting, if only briefly.

4. Am I the last of my generation (late Boomer) to realize that the Alphabet Song (the old one, not the Sesame Street version) is sung to essentially the same tune as "Baa Baa Black Sheep"?

Addendum: Murphy just got his foot stuck in his food dish. Given that he can barely lift his feet even half that height, I have no idea how that happened.

Comments

[colliemommie.livejournal.com]

4. Which is "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" anyway...

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

Dang, you're right.

[ndrosen.livejournal.com]

I got a smile out of 2. Charlie Brown was right, as I should know, having tried to get a beagle to play fetch. Rex didn't bring things back, and if you put him on a long chain to chase things, and then pulled the chain, he'd come, but he'd drop the stick.

[colliemommie.livejournal.com]

We have collies, which aren't supposed to fetch. So naturally, one fetches perfectly and will harass you to throw things for her, one chases, picks up and runs around with, and one runs over to where things landed and waits for you to come and pick it up yourself.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

1. Recipe? Pretty please?

2. Cats may purr, but they don't play fetch.

4. No.

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

I'll e-mail you the recipe.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

mmegaera at nwlink dot com

[filkferengi]

They don't have to play fetch; they spend their lives looking fetching.

Ours will point strategically at the toy [usually string] she wants to be played with, with. ;)