tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770830091603115175.post292184569726140036..comments2009-02-18T12:15:17.403-05:00Comments on Moose The Dog Blog!: Fetch!Stew Magoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11444981095583374975noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770830091603115175.post-56358495330911666582008-06-28T05:45:00.000-04:002008-06-28T05:45:00.000-04:00Yo Moose. Glad to be able to help out another Boof...Yo Moose. Glad to be able to help out another Boofhead, particularly one just starting out, as you are.<BR/><BR/>First, I observe that you've already mastered "cute". Good stuff. Two-legged dogs are suckers for cute. Cute is the ticket to forgiveness for almost anything. As in, I'm forbidden to get up on the couch. I do anyway. And I go into cute mode - on my back, boofy over-sized legs bicycling in the air, that sort of stuff. They walk in, see me on the couch, and drool: "Oh, isn't he cute?". Boofheads 1; Two-Legged Dogs 0.<BR/><BR/>Or I set up an email phishing scam. "Oh, isn't he cute? And so rich!".<BR/><BR/>But I'm not telling you anything you don't already know. You've mastered cute. You have a long, happy, utterly self-indulgent life ahead of you, free to do anything you like, when you like, regardless.<BR/><BR/>Now as to opposable thumbs. <BR/><BR/>I know where you're at. I have walked in your boofy shoes, I have felt your boofy pain.<BR/><BR/>I mean, typing by holding a stick in your mouth and poking at keys on the keyboard sucks. Big time. So does picking the splinters out of your boofy gums.<BR/><BR/>Solution? Simple. Grow opposable thumbs.<BR/><BR/>Cupping one oversized boofy paw to one oversized boofy ear, I hear you ask, "How, Obi Boofhead? How?".<BR/><BR/>Okay, I won't go into the science of evolution 'cause it will boggle your young boofy brain. But it boils down to this: anything essential to your survival will develop, anything redundant and/or surplus to your needs will gradually disappear.<BR/><BR/>Which is why cats will eventually disappear.<BR/><BR/>But I digress. Here's the bottom line. You need to create a situation in which opposable thumbs are essential to your survival. Hence they will develop.<BR/><BR/><I>A mo' di esempio</I>. (That's Italian for "by way of example". See? I'm throwing in Italian lessons gratis) Anyways, take hitchhiking. It needs a thumb. Two are even better because you can switch legs when one gets tired from all that thumbing.<BR/><BR/>Pick a very distant location. Say, in your case, Montreal. Find a reason why you really really <B>really</B> need to get there. If such a thing exists relative to Montreal.<BR/><BR/>Now get out on the road. Wave one of your boofy legs at cars as they pass. Odds are, a couple will crash, the drivers distracted by the sight of a Boofhead hitchhiking.<BR/><BR/>Hitchhike long enough and you will grow a thumb because a thumb will be essential to your reaching Montreal.<BR/><BR/>And don't forget to alternate boofy legs in order to develop the other thumb.<BR/><BR/>Once in Montreal, email - using your opposable thumbs - the two-legged dog to come and get you. <BR/><BR/>Jeez, Moose, a science lesson and an Italian lesson all in one post.<BR/><BR/>You owe me big time, champ.<BR/><BR/>PS. Moose, the word verification thingy I now have to type - with my opposable thumbs - is longer than War and Peace.Dermotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01293641722070313984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770830091603115175.post-8636566181471069042008-06-27T22:37:00.000-04:002008-06-27T22:37:00.000-04:00Dear Mr. Dermott Boof,I am hoping that this note f...Dear Mr. Dermott Boof,<BR/>I am hoping that this note finds you well. I read your advice and can only wonder at the amount of experience you have dealing with these two legged furless Sheepies.<BR/><BR/>Please help me understand how to throw the ball as I lack opposable thumbs. I need your help Obi Wan, you're my only hope~Stew Magoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11444981095583374975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770830091603115175.post-52899038798463177552008-06-27T18:10:00.000-04:002008-06-27T18:10:00.000-04:00Yo Moose. You throw the ball, he fetches it. That'...Yo Moose. <B>You</B> throw the ball, <B>he</B> fetches it. That's the natural order of things. Got it?Dermotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01293641722070313984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770830091603115175.post-86240507905850631542008-06-26T21:59:00.000-04:002008-06-26T21:59:00.000-04:00the carpet, however, is not amused at all....the carpet, however, is not amused at all....brendalove@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00871065462462122312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770830091603115175.post-14978534228534044172008-06-26T18:55:00.000-04:002008-06-26T18:55:00.000-04:00Yeah, I think it's more for the human (well, obvio...Yeah, I think it's more for the human (well, obviously...) than the dog. Habits are hard to break.<BR/><BR/>He's a riot. The guy just cracks me up.<BR/><BR/>More Moose-avational posters please!Stew Magoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11444981095583374975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1770830091603115175.post-57003693724742284312008-06-26T01:05:00.000-04:002008-06-26T01:05:00.000-04:00That was frackin' hilarious!I noticed you still ga...That was frackin' hilarious!<BR/>I noticed you still gave verbal cues "ready, ready". I always did that with Baloo-Blue, too.<BR/>Perfect.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com