I won’t deny that the wife and I have talked about getting a yappy little dog to protect our crybaby doberman. Nonetheless, especially when you take into account his less than ferocious personality, Max has surprisingly strong stick fu. For some reason dogs will grant one random stick an ineffable MUST HAVE quality and they will run over and around a thousand perfectly good arm’s-length bits of fallen branch to get at the dog that has The One Stick. Max turns this into a kind of bullfighting. He will barely jog along until a frenzied, sprinting dog gets THIS CLOSE to the precious stick, then he pulls a quick 180 while the other dog whooshes by with too much momentum to turn around. Smart dogs try this once or twice and then go for his legs. He can keep the rest running in circles for half an hour.
Here is a vid of Max showing off a bit of stick-fu with his bud Monty, who I am fairly sure was the living model for ‘Doug’ from Up. I had a manual-focus prime lens that day so forgive the hunting around for focus.
Open thread. Title in honor of DougJ’s thing with song lyrics.
Yutsano
MAXPUPPEH!!
I just had the cardiac stress test. They said I was boring because I barely blipped. Maybe I’m dead and don’t know it yet. Having a helluva time typing though. I am gonna crash out hard after this.
Yutsano
My comment got eted. FYWP.
Yutsano
My comment got eted. FYWP.
The Dangerman
@Yutsano:
Friday the 13th.
Culture of Truth
The retriever is Romney. The doberman is Obama. The stick is the Presidency.
replicnt6
Max drinks Monty’s milkshake.
Elizabelle
You might enjoy this NYTimes story on the pleasures of drinking in the afternoon.
Rosie Schaap: The Subversive Charm of Day Drinking
Here’s author’s list of songs for “Bartender Rock 101”:
1. Big Star, “September Gurls”
2. Black Sabbath, “War Pigs”
3. Blondie, “Hanging on the Telephone”
4. Elvis Costello, “Radio, Radio”
5. Johnny Cash, “Folsom Prison Blues”
6. The Modern Lovers, “Roadrunner”
7. Pixies, “Wave of Mutilation”
8. Sam Cooke, “Bring It On Home to Me”
9. Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, “100 Days, 100 Nights”
10. T. Rex, “Children of the Revolution”
11. Television, “Marquee Moon”
12. The White Stripes, “Seven Nation Army”
Satanicpanic
5 hours until beer
pragmatism
our cattle dog does the same thing with the frisbee. only difference is that with the frisbee, the other dogs’ owners come up and apologize for their dog trying to get it. i always point out that my dog is having a great time playing keep away and if the frisbee gets ripped/broken, so be it. all is fair at the dog park/area/beach as long as there is no bleeding or injury.
jacy
@pragmatism:
My cattle dog wants anything any of the other dogs has. But then she just takes it somewhere quiet and lays on top of it so that nobody else can have it. She’s getting lazy in her old age.
jnfr
That was the best video ever. Brightened my day right up.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
Why I would never want to run against Obama: He has an applet up allowing you to figure out how many millionaires are paying a lower tax rate than you.
Mark S.
Is anyone here a criminal attorney? Am I correct in surmising that Dershowitz and this other guy are full of shit?
They go on
Huh? They’re talking about an arrest warrant. I’ve never heard of an arrest warrant needing to include exculpatory evidence for the accused. I thought all they pretty much needed was some evidence that a crime was committed and the defendant probably did it. I’m pretty sure they don’t have to disprove all the possible defenses the defendant might come up with.
These guys are assholes and idiots. They’re wrong 90% of the time but keep getting invited back.
Phoenix_rising
Can’t speak to the reverse, but: We added a Real Dog (97 pounds) to our pack last weekend, in the hopes of instilling some mental stability into the Bite Sized Mistake (14 pound poodle mix, fluffy and neurotic).
So far, it’s going well. Small dog is way less nutty, and they sleep in the same bed in the living room after playing one another into exhaustion.
Just FYI.
S. cerevisiae
That is such a great clip. I love the stand-off where they are both waiting for the other to make a move, like an old west showdown. I miss being able to have a dog but hopefully that will change in the next year or so.
Culture of Truth
If the Dersh is so fired up I suggest he scoot on down to Florida and volunteer for the Notorious GZ.
MikeJ
@Elizabelle: I love Blondie, but The Nerves did the definitive version of Hangin on the telephone.
Also too, for day drinking you can’t confine yourself to rock. Throw in some Patsy Cline and some Hank Williams.
Mark S.
@Culture of Truth:
Why bother? According to Dersh, the judge is just going to throw this thing out:
Of course, that didn’t actually happen, but still.
Culture of Truth
I cannot recall such an affidavit ever being an issue. He may be right but I doubt it
J.D. Rhoades
Dershowitz called the affidavit justifying Zimmerman’s arrest “not only thin, it’s irresponsible.”
This sounds more like a defense attorney’s conditioned reflex than an actual analysis. And I say this as a defense attorney.
Omnes Omnibus
@Elizabelle: Holy crap, that is a fantastic list.
Catsy
Reposting this in the fresh thread, since it’s just that fucking awesome:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2871012/posts
WOLVERINES!
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@MikeJ:
Sloppy-midnight music. I’d dump War Pigs and Roadrunner from Schaap’s list, too- they aren’t for getting sloppy, but for the second or third wind…Definitely post-sundown.
Sam and Dave, Stevie Wonder and The Meters before 5 kill. So does this.
Mark S.
@J.D. Rhoades:
But is any of his analysis right? I mean, shit, he’s calling the prosecutor unethical. I’m pretty sure lawyers don’t like being accused of that.
Butch
But back to dogs….the youngest of our four, a golden named Beauregard, makes splitting wood an adventure because he carries off about half of what we split. Doesn’t matter how big the piece is.
amk
Great vid. Great dogs. Enjoyed it, especially Max’s trickery in the end.
Mark S.
I mean, Omnes seems like a pretty laid back guy, but I bet he’d get pissed if you called him an unethical lawyer.
Why isn’t everyone sharing my outrage?
Calming Influence
Strong in that one The Force is.
Brachiator
@Yutsano:
Was this a treadmill test?
The nuclear medicine version is a lot of fun.
Culture of Truth
It’s the iggy pop of affidavits
geg6
MAAAAAAAAAAAX!
And OMG, Monty looks exactly, and I mean exactly, like our Otis! I thought it actually could have been him and was going to accuse you of dognapping, Tim. Then I saw that Monty’s collar was not either a Steelers collar or a bright red one and knew it wasn’t Otis.
But damn. They could be brothers.
geg6
@MikeJ:
Why? And, um, no. No thanks. Why ruin a good buzz with country music?
J. Michael Neal
@Mark S.: Omnes is an unethical lawyer. What can you expect from a cheesehead?
pragmatism
@jacy: nice to see another ACD’er on here. No one says they aren’t smart! He has trained me as much as I have trained him. Mine was my first dog so I will always have a soft spot for him. cheers!
BGK
@Satanicpanic:
Gin o’clock will be about 5:00PM ET for yrs trly.
First world problem: I have an inferior bottle of vermouth already in the refrigerator at home. Do I use that, or, in the vein of life is too short to drink bad booze, take the 15 minute detour on the way home to Total Wine pick up a bottle of my vermouth of choice? Which may have the unfortunate collateral damage of a bottle of wine or three?
ET
Tim – for funny big dog/little dog dynamics you need to read Davey Barry’s Zippy & Ernest from 1988. I reread this everyone once in a while for when I need a really good laugh.
4tehlulz
I think I figured out why GZim didn’t run – he wants to ruin the lives of as many people as possible.
Elizabelle
@MikeJ: the Nerves, you say? OK.
PS: Patsy Cline and Hank Williams are excellent, but don’t want to cry in my drink.
@Omnes Omnibus: I recognize most of the bands, but not all the songs. Some Youtube research shall be done tonight, potable in hand.
Svensker
I am having a really dumb stupid day. Max and his buddy have cheered me the hell up. Yay!
Also, too, yay Yutsano. Good stress test is good.
justjohn
@Culture of Truth: Goldens aren’t Republicans, they are hippy dogs. Though mine is tough as nails. Big and strong, but not aggressive.
redshirt
Sorry if I missed it, but what did you shoot that video with Tim?
It looks amazing.
Yutsano
@Brachiator: It was the nuke med one. I’ve had pretty much a complete cardiac work-up today and I feel like dogshit. Just like my boss predicted
I would. Now trying to type over a kitteh. MUST PET NAOW!!
ThresherK
Another domesticated animal’s wild side here.
Tim F.
@redshirt: Thanks! I shot the vid with a Panasonic GH2 and a manual OM 50mm/1.8 lens. YouTube took care of the serious hand shake that comes with shooting a non-stabilized lens at short tele distances.
Omnes Omnibus
@J. Michael Neal: You, sir, are an accountant, a Minnesotan, and beneath contempt – but I repeat myself.
gogol's wife
Thank you so much for this video at the end of a long, hard week. I had to say farewell to a deeply beloved feline friend this week, can’t even talk about it, but seeing the beauty and innocence of these animals is a tonic. Thank you.
Mnemosyne
Man, when it decides to rain here in sunny So Cal, it rains like hell. Flash flood warnings, hail, waterspouts, the whole nine yards today. Glad I work within 3 miles of home.
Omnes Omnibus
@Elizabelle: You are on for an enjoyable night.
PurpleGirl
Great video. Many thanks.
elaine benes
@Catsy:
That thread is a thing of beauty! Tears of a wingnut.
Though I wonder how many will cave at the last minute and pull the lever for the Mittster the Flipflopping Abortionist?
Keyboard courage and all.
Jebediah
@Mnemosyne:
No kidding! Here in Culver City there was lightning and thunder and briefly, a solid wall of water coming down…
Jebediah
@Jebediah:
How did “Jebediah” become “undefined”?
It still generates “Jebediah” in the reply. Huh.
ETA: Now its back. Nevermind.
Narcissus
How messed up do you have to be to call someone a homosexualist and not be joking or flirting
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
We would play ball with our dogs — usually a lacrosse ball, which is perfect for chasing, and which our German Shepherd could dig out of the shrubbery at Hopkins every time we walked her there.
Anyway, back on topic. When we’d play ball with both of them there was only One Official Ball. They’d fight over it, we’d toss it, but if we tossed another one, they’d ignore it. We could literally (and I mean it in the appropriate use of the word here) bounce the Non-Ball off of one of the dog’s noses, and she would ignore it and wait for the Official Ball. It was a hoot.
Triassic Sands
It’s a sad day when a golder retriever gets the short end of the stick.
Note from Max’s first grade teacher to Tim: Max does not appear to play well with others. He needs to learn to share.
Wes G
what camera do you use? the camera work looks so epic