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24 Nov 17 - 01:11 PM (#3890174) Subject: dead dog learning sign language From: keberoxu For shame, fellow Mudcatters! I searched high and low for a thread with this title, and until this instant, there was none. I have just come from someplace called mutually dot com, one of those shameless sites where a tug-at-the-heart (or embarrassingly salacious) story gets told in a series of ten or fifteen pages, click click. I went there to follow the story of an animal shelter with a pit bull terrier whose former owner had to move and couldn't bring the dog, so the dog was left at the shelter with his plush toy stuffed elephant. Darling photographs. Padding the story out, the later pages went from the pit bull terrier in question to other dogs at the same shelter. This story is now at several removes, as it was taken from social media online and from other websites. So it goes on to say: "One of the cuties [shelter dogs] available is . . . a dead dog that is learning sign language." I have nothing further to say. Comments welcome, indeed, encouraged. |
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24 Nov 17 - 01:23 PM (#3890179) Subject: RE: BS: Now I've Seen Everything From: keberoxu Of course this was probably intended to read: "a deaf dog that is learning sign language." Tracking this story further, I found the shelter in question; they have two hearing-challenged shelter dogs who are being trained in sign language. They both look like grown-up pit bull terriers. So props to the shelter, which probably spelled "deaf" correctly from the beginning. |
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24 Nov 17 - 02:06 PM (#3890195) Subject: RE: BS: Now I've Seen Everything From: keberoxu Don't believe me? If you have nothing better to do, click through here ...or maybe scroll, if it all appears on one webpage. The installments are numbered backwards, in descending order, you start at no. 16 and work your way down. The "dead dog" quote is at no. 2. |
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24 Nov 17 - 04:45 PM (#3890234) Subject: RE: BS: Now I've Seen Everything From: Stilly River Sage I detest those sites that make you click through for each photo - they're doing that to get more income. I bail on them and look for the story elsewhere or simply move on. |
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24 Nov 17 - 08:29 PM (#3890259) Subject: RE: BS: Now I've Seen Everything From: robomatic It's called click bait and each one is cuter or more nauseating or more blatantly mismanaged historical re-imagining than the next. |
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24 Nov 17 - 09:37 PM (#3890263) Subject: RE: BS: Now I've Seen Everything From: Stilly River Sage Exactly - and there is never anything there to look at worth the trouble. EVER. |
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25 Nov 17 - 06:43 AM (#3890300) Subject: RE: BS: Now I've Seen Everything From: Jack Campin A friend of mine found a message (I think from a Classic FM page) about how Beethoven carried on composing after becoming dead. Which suggests a musical analogue of those books like "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies". It survived Wellington's Victory... It came from the Ruins of Athens... That fugue from the late Beethoven's quartets was grosser than you can imagine... |
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25 Nov 17 - 03:02 PM (#3890397) Subject: RE: BS: Now I've Seen Everything From: JHW No, no, DEcomposing |
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25 Nov 17 - 03:40 PM (#3890400) Subject: RE: BS: Now I've Seen Everything From: Mrrzy They had come from the fugue to the stretto When a bearded young man from the ghetto Reached forward and grabbed Her tresses and stabbed Her to death with a rusty stiletto. |
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25 Nov 17 - 05:17 PM (#3890410) Subject: RE: BS: Now I've Seen Everything From: keberoxu Bravo, Mrrzy! But what about a dead dog learning sign language ? |
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27 Nov 17 - 02:50 PM (#3890747) Subject: RE: BS: Now I've Seen Everything From: keberoxu What online outrages have the rest of you witnessed lately? |
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27 Nov 17 - 02:56 PM (#3890748) Subject: RE: BS: Now I've Seen Everything From: Donuel 90 year old Hopi code talkers from WWII were in the White House today to be honored but instead Trump told the that Congress has an Injun that has been around longer than code talkers, we call her Pocahontas* awkward silence * trump shame name for Elizabeth Warren. |
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27 Nov 17 - 03:23 PM (#3890754) Subject: RE: BS: Now I've Seen Everything From: Donuel Even a simple veteran honor ceremony is smeared with Trump's racial slurs. |
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29 Nov 17 - 02:50 AM (#3891069) Subject: RE: BS: Now I've Seen Everything From: robomatic And the ceremony in which the above happened was staged in front of a portrait of Andrew Jackson. good optics all round |
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29 Nov 17 - 03:26 AM (#3891076) Subject: RE: BS: Now I've Seen Everything From: Nigel Parsons As for the thread title: "Well, I been done seen most ev'rythin' When I see an elephant fly" |