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bilmore · 04-30-2003, 04:26 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
And, Bilmore, Ashcroft hasn't taken over enough (yet) that I am irrevocably cursed when my period stops . . . .

You can take a pregnancy joke far, far afield, can't you?

leagleaze · 04-30-2003, 04:27 PM

The biggest single thing I will say about a puppy is you need to be able to get home every 4 hours to let him out. Puppies simply cannot be expected to hold it for any longer than that. They also need to be fed frequently until they are at least a few months old.

You also could not leave a puppy loose in your home. Puppies get into a lot of mischief. They chew wires, they eat chemicals, they pee on your floor. They are basically like young children wandering around getting in trouble. (Though I don't know if young children pee on floors.) So the puppy would need to be in a crate. There is nothing wrong with crating a dog, they are cave dwelling animals by nature and like it after they get used to it, but not for hours and hours at a time without time out to stretch their legs, especially a young puppy.

Puppies get very lonely, especially if they are coming from being with their mom and their brothers and sisters, with whom they spent all their lives up to this point. They need to be able to focus on you as their pack leader to replace the family they have lost.

You can't leave the puppy alone with displaced dog at first, because the puppy could be easily harmed by an older dog. Yes displaced may be very sweet and generally ok, but he could easily get his nose out of joint, as breeders tend to say, by a new addition to the family, and you just need to be careful when puppies are very young in terms of mixing them with other dogs. Especially male dogs.

If you can only come home 2-3 times a week during lunch, I wouldn't get a puppy. Because more likely, you would need to go home 1-2 times a day, depending on your work schedule. If you work a 9-5 kind of day, you could probably get away with going home during lunch, but it would have to be every day.

You might consider rescuing an older dog that is still young. Maybe just under a year. Then if you cannot get home quite as often you will be ok.

One of the reasons I don't have a dog at all is because I cannot get home to care for him, and I live alone. My parents have a dog they would like me to take, and he would love to be an only dog, but I don't think it would be fair to him, he would be without my company for too much time, and he would be utterly miserable. He is an older dog and could go long periods without being let out, but even so, I would need to get home in the middle of the day every day, and I can't do that. So until I have a lifestyle that enables me to do this or have someone do it for me, and also, until I travel less, I won't have any dog, never mind a puppy.

ABBAKiss · 04-30-2003, 04:28 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Thurgreed(bun. oven.)Marshall

I think it is more likely that she is just getting fat. Most pregnant people don't gain that much weight EVERYWHERE when people are still in the "is she or isn't she" phase. Poor XTina. She can't win. Either too skinny or too fat. And no pictures from the just right in between phase.

If she is pregnant, I hope she removes her nether-piercings before attempting to give birth.

ltl/fb · 04-30-2003, 04:33 PM

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Originally posted by bilmore
You can take a pregnancy joke far, far afield, can't you?

Not really. I was thinking about Satan.

notcasesensitive · 04-30-2003, 04:34 PM

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Originally posted by ABBAKiss
I think it is more likely that she is just getting fat. Most pregnant people don't gain that much weight EVERYWHERE when people are still in the "is she or isn't she" phase. Poor XTina. She can't win. Either too skinny or too fat. And no pictures from the just right in between phase.

If she is pregnant, I hope she removes her nether-piercings before attempting to give birth.

bad........visual.......

n(thx abba)cs

leagleaze · 04-30-2003, 04:35 PM

ltl/fb · 04-30-2003, 04:40 PM

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Originally posted by dtb
Anyhoo -- my friend was explaining to her boyfriend about our charming conversational convention (about how we lopped off syllables from words), and his response was, "Hmm, that's interesting, but what if it's only one syllable, like 'lame'?" She actually started to answer for a second. I think it was shortly thereafter that we seriously curtailed our use of this convention.

Is this practice like saying "dis"?

f(interested primarily because I will be living in the City of Dis at some point, and wondering if we will be required to talk in partial words like ditzy chicks)b

edited to change "girls" to "chicks"

04-30-2003, 04:43 PM

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Originally posted by leagleaze
I would be in the 7th level of hell. Apparently, because I am a sodomite.

If it means anything to you, I've always considered you a pillar.

leagleaze · 04-30-2003, 04:51 PM

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Originally posted by Cliff Clavin
If it means anything to you, I've always considered you a pillar.

Of salt?

ltl/fb · 04-30-2003, 04:52 PM

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Originally posted by leagleaze
Of salt?

For some reason, now I have songs from "GodSpell" running through my head.

Thanks.

Really.

robustpuppy · 04-30-2003, 04:53 PM

It seems to me the All-England Club eliminated the wrong tradition.

http://espn.go.com/tennis/news/2003/0429/1546283.html

Spree: no more bowing/curtsying, but men still earn more than women.

04-30-2003, 04:58 PM

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Originally posted by leagleaze
Of salt?

It has long been known that the ancient Mesopotamians marketed a "pillar of salt" biblical sex toy, and they were smart enough to include a warning label cautioning the user to not rub salt in the womb.

ATLA must have been strong back then, as well.

evenodds · 04-30-2003, 04:58 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Good lord. I didn't even know that was her. She looks fucking horrible.

Thurgreed(bun. oven.)Marshall

I just saw this new shot of her, and I think she's just a fattie:

Even(gotta love yahoo's most-emailed content email)Odds

leagleaze · 04-30-2003, 04:59 PM

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Originally posted by Cliff Clavin
It has long been known that the ancient Mesopotamians marketed a "pillar of salt" biblical sex toy, and they were smart enough to include a warning label cautioning the user to not rub salt in the womb.

ATLA must have been strong back then, as well.

Oh God, that was really really bad.

Salt in the womb.

Heh

soup sandwich · 04-30-2003, 05:01 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
Spree: no more bowing/curtsying, but men still earn more than women.

While in the real world, I think people should not be paid based on gender, here is one area where there should be a difference. The men play best of five, the women play best of three. The men play more tennis so their higher pay is justified. I'm surprised that the Australian and US Open's give the same prize money for less work.