BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)

Subject: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: RangerSteve
Date: 17 Dec 07 - 10:44 PM

I can't sleep and I have nothing else to do, and two other copycat threads on the Mudcat at this time put this idea in my head. That other one is up to 617 hits right now. 617 - fer cryin' out loud, let's put that argument to rest.

Anyway, Fido is a stereotypical name for dogs, but have you ever met one in real life? How about "Rover". I didn't think so. Come to think of it, I've never met a "Spot" either. I have no idea where I'm going with this, but it make as much sense as arguing the existence of God or Jesus with non believers. (That's my opinion).

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: Peace
Date: 17 Dec 07 - 10:49 PM

Your chances of meeting a Spot are quite low. Lady Macbeth threw him out.

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: Beer
Date: 17 Dec 07 - 10:56 PM

I can name you every dog I've had since I was 5. And now I'm 60.
And I had a dog named "Fido"
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: Peace
Date: 17 Dec 07 - 10:57 PM

I knew Fi's brother, Play.

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: number 6
Date: 17 Dec 07 - 11:17 PM

Well ... I never did meet a dog named Fido, Spot, Rover or even one named Pal ... but there is a dog named Otis who found my wallet under my desk at home. I was sure some punk had picked it out of my pocket at the mall the previous day.

Thanks to Otis, there will be a Christmas in our household this year afterall.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Dec 07 - 11:25 PM

Go, Otis!!

Dogs I have known - Puka, Tramp, Wrinkles, Shu-Montu aka Monty, Merlee, Dizzy, Numa, Blondie, Tokomo, Spooks, Hobo, Cinders, Joy, Heidi, and Molly. Nope, no Fidos.

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Dec 07 - 11:32 PM

Let's see...we did have a Pal. We also had Beany, Czar (Czaressa Sabrina Garnet, to give her her full Registered Irish Setter name), Chicker (Czar's daughter), Andy...but no Fido. The neighbor's dog (who once bit me on the leg) was named Fluffo, but not Fido.

In the Army our team had Flunk'em (we were an inspection team) and Flunky once bit the Officer of the Day, which endeared him to everyone.

Never known a Fido, Rover, or Spot (damned or otherwise).

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: Slag
Date: 18 Dec 07 - 12:55 AM

Greta, Braun, Sarsaparilla, Pepper, Sassafras, Brown Dog (Brownie, for short!) Baked Potato (BP for short), Sky and Rocket (mother and son Schnauzers, Dog Rommel; these are all dogs owned by my self or other family members at one time or another. A few other dog I have known are Bear Bear, Pudders, Mr. Lucky, Down, Duke, Thor (a Chihuahua) and Dempsy. My cousin had an old Rambler station wagon she called "Rover" because of the little saying "I had a dog, its name was Rover and when he died he died all over". as did the car... many times. But I've never encountered a dog named Rover or Fido. Good thread. It probably won't end in endless debate but that's OK. I have dial-up and it's torture waiting for the hundreds of entries to download just so I can get my two cents worth in (which is almost always promptly ignored!).

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: gnomad
Date: 18 Dec 07 - 01:30 AM

A friend had a dog (bitch, actually) ha called Fido. The vet was so surprised he gave the initial treatment at half price, saying he had always sworn he would do so, if he ever encountered a Fido.

Another friend had a cat of the same name; a seriously confused beast.

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 18 Dec 07 - 02:20 AM

The old one everbody's heard:

Voice in the dark: "Jesus is watching you."

Burglar: "Who said that?"

Voice: "Moses."

Light goes on.

Burglar: "You're nothin' but a ^$%#@ parrot. Who the $#!% would name a parrot 'Moses'?"

Parrot: "Same guy who named the Doberman 'Jesus'."

John

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: theleveller
Date: 18 Dec 07 - 04:27 AM

You should hear what I call my dog when she craps on the floor.

Actually, her real name's Susie but because she's a whippet/staffie cross, we call her the whipstaff - which is where we got the name for our folk duo

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: Emma B
Date: 18 Dec 07 - 06:11 AM

DIDO, FIDO

from the singing of the Kipper Family.

1. Well one morning last autumn I was walking my dogs
When the Duke of Wellington we did meet.
Well Bonzo and Rover, they slobbered him all over,
While Dido nearly knocked him off his feet.
Well there was....


CHORUS: Dido, Fido, Bonzo and Rex
Rover and Lassie and Spot
There was Butch, there was Candy
There was Patch and there was Sandy
These were the dogs what I had got.

2. Well don't worry sir I said,
He won't hurt you that's just
his way of saying he like you alot.
But he took my little dog, and he kicked him in the bog
And said that's my way of showing I do not.
There was.....

3. Now the next dog being old, he was a trifle deaf
He couldn't hear a single word I said.
And so when I told him sit, he made an awful mess.
When I cleaned it up I shot the bugger dead.
That still left....

4. Now the next dog being daft, and not all the ticket
He made straight way for the river.
And there he did jump in, but the bugger couldn't swim
That's the last we saw of him forever.
There was.....

5. They chased a rabbit o'er the plain,
but that chased 'em back again
Which put my poor old dogs in quite a stew.
Now there's just 12 months today
Since I heard the squire say
"I should have them all put down, if I was you."
There was.....

From the wonderful tradition of The Kipper family :)

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: skipy
Date: 18 Dec 07 - 08:39 AM

Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation (FIDO)
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 Dec 07 - 08:41 AM

Fido means Trusty. I had a cat named Munch.

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: Wesley S
Date: 18 Dec 07 - 09:08 AM

I have no proof that any of these dogs exist. So I'm not going to believe you. It's all in your head. Believing is superstitions doesn't make them true. C'mon folks - use your head.

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Dec 07 - 09:13 AM

I do. It keeps my hair out of my mouth, usually.

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: Wesley S
Date: 18 Dec 07 - 09:51 AM

I'm a dogless heathen and proud of it too.

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: bobad
Date: 18 Dec 07 - 10:15 AM

I knew a dog called Rover, he bit me on my ass.

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: An Buachaill Caol Dubh
Date: 18 Dec 07 - 10:43 AM

Other than "Moreover", are there any other dogs named in the Bible?*
Let's not misinterpret that as, "Sons of Bitches".





Book of Job: "Moreover, the dog [,] came and licked his sores"

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Dec 07 - 10:53 AM

Wesley, you can come down to my house and meet my American Staffordshire terrier (pitbull) named Cinnamon and my blue heeler named Poppy. They're both sweethearts. Their friend Rusty, a blond lab, is in the street as I type. He's with his owner David, talking to my across the street neighbor John (who feeds stray cats but doesn't have a dog). Rusty runs up my driveway most mornings to the gate and they bark happily at each other.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: GUEST,Neil D
Date: 18 Dec 07 - 11:05 AM

Subject: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: RangerSteve
Date: 17 Dec 07 - 10:44 PM

I can't sleep and I have nothing else to do,


   You must be the original agnostic, dyslexic insomniac.
   Lying in bed all night wondering if there really is a dog.

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: theleveller
Date: 18 Dec 07 - 11:52 AM

If dog didn't exist, we'd have to invent him/her. Ever tried training an abstract concept to catch pheasants?

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Dec 07 - 12:17 PM

As Marx said, "Outside of dogs, books are Man's best friend. Inside a dog it's too dark to read."

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 18 Dec 07 - 01:17 PM

I once had a cat named "Ghoti".

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: Ythanside
Date: 18 Dec 07 - 01:43 PM

That'll be pronounced 'fish', I imagine. Why didn't you just call it Shaw?

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: Bert
Date: 18 Dec 07 - 01:45 PM

I knew someone who named his cat Oedipus.

We had dog named Pat.

Of course Peace is now responsible for a whole load of next generation dogs being named Playdo.

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: Becca72
Date: 18 Dec 07 - 02:25 PM

We had an epileptic beagle called Pal when I was very young, but I've never known a Rover or Fido. We've had Pal, Ginger, Hannah, Clancy, Seamus, Bubba, Olivia, Benjamin, Diamond, Virgil, Maxwell, Henry, Owen...but my family is partial to human names for their pets. :-)

I also know Riley, Kema, Teela, Thor, Cooper, Lucy, Bronte, Taz, Belle, Tony, Chelsea, Grover, Sadie and Syd.

A friend of mine once had a cat called "Puppy"...her other cat was called "Kitty". Very original.

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: bankley
Date: 19 Dec 07 - 10:12 AM

"Playdo" ? was he related to 'you-rippa-dees' ?

Fido started a phone company.

When one of Carlin's dogs dies, he always gets another that looks the same so he doesn't have to change the pictures.

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: TheSnail
Date: 19 Dec 07 - 12:27 PM

Go Stay Fetch
Les Barker

I'd always wanted a dog and so I took in a stray
He didn't want to leave me and so I called him Stay.
I knew it was a mistake the first time I told Stay to go.
Go Stay and I pointed but did Stay go... No.

Go Stay I said and he started. He was going and then he was not.
He looked at me sad and confused. Two big eyes said "Wot?"
I threw him a stick. I said fetch Stay. He started and stopped all in one.
I never got round to come here Stay. Stay couldn't come he'd not gone.

He wanted to please but he couldn't. I spoke but he just didn't know.
So I got him a spaniel for company. I shouldn't have called it Go.
I said stay Go. Go would stay a second then both Stay and Go were away.
I'd have to shout come here Stay and Go. They were coming and going all day.

I said stay Go and Stay. I tried go Stay and Go nothing seemed to get through.
Its not they were both saying no; they were both saying does he mean you?
Its all very well in the park but what if we stood at the curb.
Two lost souls in the dark. Which bloody one is the verb.

I've got them a new friend now. I found him a poor starving wretch.
I hope they'll be very happy together. Go and Stay, come and meet Fetch.

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 19 Dec 07 - 12:35 PM

So who was the British DJ who named his cats
Alogue,
Ilepsy,
Erwaul.

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Dec 07 - 12:48 PM

If I ever have another dog, I'm gonna name him Phydeaux.

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: GUEST,ibo
Date: 19 Dec 07 - 01:40 PM

my dog is called shite,my next dog will be called bark.

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: Peace
Date: 19 Dec 07 - 02:19 PM

Name him/her Dammit. Makes the training easier.

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Dec 07 - 03:15 PM

Yeah, but Rin-Tin-Tin exists!

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: bankley
Date: 19 Dec 07 - 03:52 PM

but Rin-Tin-Tin is really Rusty......

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 19 Dec 07 - 04:49 PM

Our dog is called Bonzo and he has 3 legs, 2 at the back and 1 at the front, but manages to run faster than most dogs he meets! Not only that, he plays football with a second ball in his mouth!I pass the ball to him and he lobs it back with his one front leg. Every time we take him for a walk at the the weekend we have to tell his story at least 5 times which becomes a little boring after a while.

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Dec 07 - 04:59 PM

We were down at the sawmill and our dog was sniffing around when he fell onto the belt carrying the logs into the saw! Cut him plumb in two lengthwise, but the sawmill doctor managed to get him sown back together just fine. Only in his hurry the doc got the sides reversed and the poor ol' dog ran around on two legs with the other two stickin' up in the air. After a bit we started makin' some money off that dog, racin' him against greyhounds and everything. And the dog always won, 'cause if he got tired he'd just flip over and run on the other legs for awhile.

But we lost him at the playground on a sliding board. It was one of those that were really long, but made up in a spiral. The ol' dog started at the top but tried to brake himself against the sides with both pairs of legs at the same time. Wore him down to a frazzle, and that was all we carried home and buried in the back yard.

Best dog we ever had, too.

His name was Elmo.

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: Riginslinger
Date: 19 Dec 07 - 05:41 PM

And a good thing, too. If his name had been Fido, he wouldn't have been a dog at all.

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: John O'L
Date: 19 Dec 07 - 09:54 PM

There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)

In most modern societies packtheism is a thing of the past.
Of course there is no historical evidence that Fido ever actually existed and besides, Spud is the One True Dog.

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: number 6
Date: 19 Dec 07 - 10:08 PM

This guy's name is Shank

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Dec 07 - 10:26 PM

"Spud" spelled backwards is "dupS", which is a filthy obscenity in the Yalukiqt language. If you ever meet a speaker of Yalukiq, do not use this word or s/he will disembowel you with a big, dull, rusty, knife.

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: theleveller
Date: 20 Dec 07 - 03:24 AM

In the old days tanneries used to pay for dog shite which was used as part of the tanning process, so people used to make a living by going round and collecting it. Sounds like a great idea - get all the skallies who have been covicted of anti-social behaviour to go around picking up all the dog mess. Has a certain air of poetic justice about it.

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Dec 07 - 08:21 AM

Why bother? They can move it by the trainload from places like state capitols, Washington DC, the Houses of Parliament....

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Dec 07 - 11:45 AM

Bill D, In the USAF I was a crew chief in an F4 squadron. One of our birds was numbered 505 which Garnered the name "Phydeaux Five". No, it wasn't a dog but maybe a hangar queen??? I'll never know but she had a sister ship, 555 which, of course was named "Triple Nickel".

Thou believest there is a dog, thou doest well for the Aspen also believe, and tremble!

Subject: RE: BS: There aren't any dogs, (not even Fido)
From: GUEST,Slag
Date: 20 Dec 07 - 11:47 AM

Joe, Max or whoever, sorry! Previous post was mine. I'm on an alien machine and "no cookies".